Search Results: Titles starting with G from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

A political novel about a unique plan to prevent war.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. New edition, Carefully Revised by the Rev. A. J. W. Borrison, B.A. . Hardcover cloth. Very Good. .In this Neander's chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history. In the principal figures of ecclesiastical history he tried to depict the representative tendencies of each age, and also the types of the essential tendencies of human nature generally. His guiding principle in dealing both with the history and with the present condition of the church was "that Christianity has room for the various tendencies of human nature, and aims at permeating and glorifying them all; that according to the divine plan these various tendencies are to occur successively and simultaneously and to counterbalance each other, so that the freedom and variety of the development of the spiritual life ought not to be forced into a single dogmatic form" Part of Bohn's Standard Library. Cover is nicely embossed and the type on the spine is gilt. Pages are… Read More

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. This book establishes the difference between the reproductive cells that carry heredity and the body cells that do not. It established that lifestyle changes or experiences of an adult organism do not affect heredity. Modern research has modified these conclusions somewhat, but the basic ideas are still accepted.

Like new except for a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. A complete biography by a writer who has devoted most of his work to the subject of America's greatest composer.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. First printing. hardcover cloth. Fine/very good. A funny and amoral classic, sometimes identified as a mix of the styles of Henry Miller and James Joyce. Very Irish. DJ has some small tears at top and bottom but is largely intact and very bright

The 200-inch Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar is one of the great achievements of the 20th century. Long the largest reflector (eclipsed eventually with new technology and the Hubble). this book chronicle the difficulties of construction and the many discoveries made with the aid of the Hale.

The volume focuses on the life and works of great mathematicians: from Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, and Newton through to Kurt Goedel and Alan Turing. Contains excerpts from their works as well as short biographies

New York: American Tract Societ, 1860. Hardcover. Good. Worn and cocked, but otherwise OK. Brown stamped cover with gilt lettering on spine. Still has tissue protecting opening illustration.

Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1867. Hardcover. Good. Later edition of 1859 publication (with handwritten note on flyleaf saying "Samuel G. Appel, June 15, 1868).Classic work with brown cloth cover, gold lettering on spine. Several pages had been dogeared, but interior otherwise in good shape, with 170 line drawings of grasses and other farm subjects. Cocked;. Some discoloration on the front, probably from someone setting a damp plate or jar on it. . A bit of buhbbling and dents on back cover.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine.

Scottish Geologist James Geike was an early interpreter of climate change, favoring an ice age of glaciers on land. This is a classic work, originally published in 1874,

Scottish Geologist James Geike was an early interpreter of climate change, favoring an ice age of glaciers on land. This is a classic work, originally published in 1874,

New York: Hawthorne, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Signed on endpape "To Frances Griffen, Lowell Thomas." DJ missing chip and repaired with scotch tape at edges

A facsimile reprint of the 1881 Chatto & Windus edition, A General Account of Life in Ancient Greek & Rome on rather cheap paper. 543 b&w woodcuts.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. paperback. Like New. Cover by Alain Duchamp. Short aphoristic poems by a mathematician. The first Grooks sold over 120,000 copies.