Search Results: Titles starting with A from Well Read Books

London: J. D. Potter, Admiralty Agent for Charts, 1943. "Time Azimuth Tables, Altitude Azimuth Tables, when true bearing is required quickly to check behaviour of compass the Altitude alone enables it to be found at once - a very important advantage". 1st. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9" - 6" Tall.Latitudes 0 to 30 degree. Declinations 0 to 24 degree {from front of book} "Adaptation of the Tables to finding Great Circle Courses."The horizontal coordinate system, also known as the Alt/Az system, is a method for describing the exact position of objects in the sky, such as planets, the Sun, or the Moon.Very old book of tables. Green cloth hardcover in good condition. The first few pages have some staining, but otherwise in clean condition.

Toronto Canada: The University of Toronto Press, 1933. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 10" x 8"
This book was published for presentation at the fifth Pacific Science Congress Canada, 1933. This copy is No. 213.
Blue cloth boards with gold gilt on front and spine.
Cover has some small stains and scrapes. Inside of book is very good, clean condition. Label on inside front cover shows who this book was presented to, date and copy No. 213.

Penguin Canada, 2008. With a Note by the heirs of L. M. Montgomery.. 100th Anniversary Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. 8" x 5 3/4".

Book is entirely in Dutch. 2005. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrom. 8" x 5 1/2".

London: Thames and Hudson, 1957. 1st English Edition.Text by Rayner Heppenstall and a Preface by Le CorbusierThe book's main selling point is Lucien Hervé's classic black-and-white photos, first published in 1956, of the Abbey Le Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey, one of the wonders of twelfth-century Cistercian architecture and still revered by architects today, nestles in a wooded valley in Provence, South of France. This book is a pictorial appreciation of the abbey, photographed by Lucien Hervé in the mid-1950s and introduced by Le Corbusier.Turquoise cloth hard cover book is in very good clean condition with a little signs of wear around the edges. Previous owner's inscription inside 2nd page in ink dated 1960.Dust jacket has many tears and has been mended with tape.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1945. "Prepared under direction of the Chief of the Air Corps, United States Army". Dedication signed by Author June 19/56. 1st. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/2" x 5"Book in very good clean condition. Showing signs of wear along edges. Book is missing dust jacket.Dedication to previous owner and signed by Author 1st inside page.

Lima Peru: Banco De Credito Del Peru En La Cultura, 1985. Clear Brodart cover on dust jacket. Book and jacket in very good clean condition.. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Clear Brodart Covering.