1983, ISBN: 9780300031263

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Arcadia Publishing. As New. 2003. Paperback. 0738523453 . Images of Baseball; 14 oz.; 127 pages; Unread/Unmarked PB like new. Rockford, IL, and the surrounding area, the Rock River Valle… Mehr…

Arcadia Publishing. As New. 2003. Paperback. 0738523453 . Images of Baseball; 14 oz.; 127 pages; Unread/Unmarked PB like new. Rockford, IL, and the surrounding area, the Rock River Valley, is rich in baseball history. The town first attracted national baseball attention in 1867 when its Forest City team defeated the touring Washington Nationals, who were previously undefeated. Rockford's young pitcher, Albert G. Spalding, quickly became recognized as a legend, as he dominated all aspects of the game. Rockford's baseball history continued with minor league teams, industrial league teams, and other teams both semi-pro and amateur. The city again gained national attention with the four-time champion Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-1954). The excitement of professional ball in the Forest City continues today with the Rockford River Hawks of the Frontier League. Baseball in Rockford tells the players' stories from 1865 to the present, illustrated with vintage photographs throughout. ., Arcadia Publishing, 2003, 5, Simon & Schuster, London, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 423 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame. The book traces their diverse social origins from the wealthy gentry to the working-class poor, and their education from the spires of Cambridge to the socialist debating halls of London and Wales. It charts their thrilling travels in wooden ships to the strange and beautiful lands, oceans and islands of the southern hemisphere. Encounters with the landscapes, habitats and peoples of South America, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South East Asia and Antarctica moulded the young mariners' bodies and minds, reshaped their scientific ideas and led them, on returning to Britain, to befriend fellow voyager Charles Darwin. All three crucially influenced the publication and reception of his Origin of Species in 1859, one of the formative texts of the modern world. For the first time the Darwinian revolution of ideas is seen as a genuinely collective enterprise and one that had its birth in a series of gripping and human travel adventures in the southern hemisphere. Many of the most urgent ecological and social issues of our times are seen to be prefigured in this compelling story of intellectual discovery. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Britain/UK; 19th century; History. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847372666. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9541. . 9781847372666, Simon & Schuster, 2009, 4, Yale University Press, New Haven, first paperback edition, 1983. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 18,198 pp, 190 ills, plans. From the blurb: "The city of Oxford has one of the most remarkable concentrations of beautiful buildings in Europe, and the story of its unbuilt edifices is a fascinating addition to the history of architecture. This book by Howard Colvin explores the most interesting of the many abortive building schemes in Oxford - from the missing nave of New College Chapel in the fourteenth century, through the projects of such major and influential architects as Wren, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Wyatt, Pugin and Jackson, to the unexecuted designs of the twentieth century. The great merit of this book is that it places a very famous architectural environment firmly in the context of English architectural ideas. It also discusses the success and failure of Oxford dons as patrons of architecture and the role of both amateurs and master craftsmen in the designing of Oxford buildings. Some of the highlights include an attempt to reconstruct the original design for Cardinal College (now Christ Church),; some bold speculations about Wren’s design for the Sheldonian Theatre; a presentation of many splendid baroque designs by Hawksmoor; the story of Pugin’s designs for Balliol College and of other visionary nineteenth-century projects; the history of the extraordinary designs for Nuffield College and other notable twentieth-century failures by historicist and modernist alike. Copiously illustrated both with contemporary architectural designs and with specially made plans and drawings, this book is both visually attractive and elegantly written - an original and entertaining contribution to the architectural history of Oxford. Howard Colvin is a fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, add the author and editor of several books on British architectural history - most notably A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1978)." Contents: Preface; I. Gothic Uncertainties; II. Retarded Renaissance; III. The Limits of a Private Purse; IV. Dr. Clarke’s Portfolios; V. Hawksmoor’s Oxford; VI. Indecision at Magdalen; VII. Pugin and the Battle for Balliol; VIII. The Two Museums; IX. Jackson and the Jacobean Revival; X. Oxford and the Modern Movement; Sources and Bibliography; Index. Bookplate of Keble College, Oxford on front inside wrapper, otherwise Very Good., Yale University Press, New Haven, first paperback edition, 1983, 1983, 3<

1983, ISBN: 9780300031263

Yale University Press, New Haven, first paperback edition, 1983. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 18,198 pp, 190 ills, plans. From the blurb: "The city of Oxford has one of th… Mehr…

Yale University Press, New Haven, first paperback edition, 1983. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 18,198 pp, 190 ills, plans. From the blurb: "The city of Oxford has one of the most remarkable concentrations of beautiful buildings in Europe, and the story of its unbuilt edifices is a fascinating addition to the history of architecture. This book by Howard Colvin explores the most interesting of the many abortive building schemes in Oxford - from the missing nave of New College Chapel in the fourteenth century, through the projects of such major and influential architects as Wren, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Wyatt, Pugin and Jackson, to the unexecuted designs of the twentieth century. The great merit of this book is that it places a very famous architectural environment firmly in the context of English architectural ideas. It also discusses the success and failure of Oxford dons as patrons of architecture and the role of both amateurs and master craftsmen in the designing of Oxford buildings. Some of the highlights include an attempt to reconstruct the original design for Cardinal College (now Christ Church),; some bold speculations about Wren’s design for the Sheldonian Theatre; a presentation of many splendid baroque designs by Hawksmoor; the story of Pugin’s designs for Balliol College and of other visionary nineteenth-century projects; the history of the extraordinary designs for Nuffield College and other notable twentieth-century failures by historicist and modernist alike. Copiously illustrated both with contemporary architectural designs and with specially made plans and drawings, this book is both visually attractive and elegantly written - an original and entertaining contribution to the architectural history of Oxford. Howard Colvin is a fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, add the author and editor of several books on British architectural history - most notably A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1978)." Contents: Preface; I. Gothic Uncertainties; II. Retarded Renaissance; III. The Limits of a Private Purse; IV. Dr. Clarke’s Portfolios; V. Hawksmoor’s Oxford; VI. Indecision at Magdalen; VII. Pugin and the Battle for Balliol; VIII. The Two Museums; IX. Jackson and the Jacobean Revival; X. Oxford and the Modern Movement; Sources and Bibliography; Index. Bookplate of Keble College, Oxford on front inside wrapper, otherwise Very Good., Yale University Press, New Haven, first paperback edition, 1983, 1983, 3<

1983, ISBN: 9780300031263

Yale University Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very solid overall, with tight binding. Unmarked aside from small owner name/date on first page., Yale University Press, 1983, 3

1983, ISBN: 9780300031263

Softcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less., [PU: Yale University Press]