New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1941. Hardcover. [8], 421, [13] p.: diagrams; 17 cm. Black faux leather cloth over card with gilt spine title and embossed cover title. All page edges red. Red endpapers. Includes index. Publisher's advertisements on final 6 unpaginated pages. Former owners' names on front free... More about Audels Electrical Power Calculations with Diagrams
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1864. Hardcover. "Translated from the French of M. Armengaud, the Elder, and Mm. Armenguad, the Youger, and Amouroux, civil engineers. Rewritten and arranged, with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day by William Johnson."... More about The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing...
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New York: Basic Books, 1960. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 2 volumes in slipcase: 853 p., many unpaginated pages of illustrations: in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles. Grey and black slipcase. Books are in Very Good Condition: spines are faded; otherwise, clean and bright. Slipcase is in... More about The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science [2 volumes in slipcase
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Report by a committee appointed to make a collection of observations on the total solar eclipse of Nov. 30, 1834: Alex. Dallas Bache, Jos. Roberts,Jun., and Isaiah Lukens. [1], 234-247, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read... More about Collection of Observations on the Solar Eclipse of November 30th, 1834, made at Philadelphia,...
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 408-417, [3] p., 2 leaves of engraved plates (containing 7 illustrations); 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article by Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was read before the Society on April 2, 1836. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin... More about Notes and Diagrams, illustrative of the Directions of the Forces acting at and near the surface...
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 210-215, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on Nov. 7, 1834. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and grandson of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Dallas, taught engineering at West... More about Observations to determine the Magnetic Dip at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, West Point,...
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. 21, [1] p., 3 leaves of engraved plates: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article by Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was read before the Society on Nov. 16, 1832. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the... More about On the Diurnal Variation of the Horizontal Needle [Transactions of the American Philosophical...
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 428-457, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article was read before the Society on May 6, 1836. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, taught engineering at West Point; served in the United States... More about On the Relative Horizontal Intensities of terrestrial Magnetism at several Places in the United...
New York: Walker and Company, 1966. Hard Cover. Edited by Anthony Baines for the Galpin Society. 344 p.: 32 pages of photographs, in-text drawing and music; 24 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Price-clipped dust jacket. Green endpapers. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1969. Book is in... More about Musical Instruments Through the Ages
Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818. Hardcover. 2 volumes: [8], 251, [1] p.; [3], 6-234 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled volume numbers in 4th compartment. Remains of old hand-written paper labels at head of each spine. Each volume contains an... More about Compendium Florae Philadelphicae: Containing a Description of the Indigenous and Naturalized...
Paris: Deterville Desray, 1798. Hardcover. "Nouvelle Édition, entièrement refondue, considérablement augmentée et mise en ordre, d'après les expériences les plus sûres, les auteurs les plus estimés, les mémoires et les procédés de cultivateurs, amateurs et artistes, chacun dans les parties qui les concernent par J.-F. Bastien." Volumes 1 and 2..... More about La Nouvelle Maison Rustique, ou Économie Rurale, Pratique et Générale de tous les biens de...
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1909. Hardcover. Zweite, vollkommen durchgesehene und teilwweise Neubearbeitete Auflage. xvi, 766 p.: color frontispiece and 19 additional leaves of plates (7 in color), many in-text illustrations, including maps; 30 cm. Publisher's half diced calf with maroon cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Top page edges gilt... More about Edelsteinkunde: eine Allgemein Verständliche Darstellung der Eigenschaften, des Vorkommens und...
Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1883. Hardcover. [2], xi, [1], 296, [2] p.: in-text illustrations; 19 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped spine decoration and series title. Blind-stamped titles and illustration on front board with blind-stamped decorative border on both boards. Binder's name stamped on back board: "H. Spekling Dampfbuchb... More about Die Sonne und die Planeten: Populär-wissenschaftlich dargestellt von E. Becker [provenance: Emil...
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1940. Paperback. viii, 506 p., 73 leaves of illustrations; 24 cm. Beige paper covers printed in black. Faint stamp at the head of the front cover and title page for the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Philadelphia. Bookplate for the Foundation inside front cover stamped "Withdrawn."... More about Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds and Their Allies: Orders...
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1942. Paperback. xi, [1], 555, [1] p., 70 leaves of illustrations; 24 cm. Beige paper covers printed in black. Faint stamp at the head of the front cover and title page for the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Philadelphia. Bookplate for the Foundation inside front cover... More about Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies: Order Passeriformes
Gorham, N.H. Mount Washington Observatory, 1956. First Edition. 34, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled pamphlet with illustrated front cover. Articles about life at the Mount Washington Observatory during the winter by Richard B. Learnard, Arthur E. Bent, A.A. McKenzie, Gordon H. Miller, and Paul M. Gerhard. In Very Good-... More about Winter on Mount Washington
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. xi, [1], 249 p.: diagrams; 22 cm. Light green cloth with dark green spine title. No dust jacket. Contents: Where We Are -- The Discussing Computer -- Where We Are Heaed -- The Social Responsibilities of Computer People. Includes glossary... More about The Computer Revolution
Boston, Mass. Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1831. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Second Edition with Additions. xv, [1], 521, [1] p.: folded frontispiece, 21 additional leaves of plates (4 folded); 25 cm. Attractive modern rebinding in 19th-century style: calf spine with five spine compartments between gilt Greek key rolls; green leather... More about Elements of Technology, Taken Chiefly From a Course of Lectures Delivered at Cambridge, on the...
London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1971. Hardcover. xiv, 338 p.: in-text formulas and drawings; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Michael Wade. Contains essays on body movement and human commnication, some previously published and others published here for the first time. Book... More about Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body-Motion Communication
Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Title continued: "To Which are added Statistics of the Principal Manufacturing Centres, and Descriptions of Remarkable Manufactories at the Present Time." Imprint includes London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. Vol. 2 only. [2], 11-826 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece: portraits, tables; 24 cm. Rebacked with... More about A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the...
Göttingen, Germany: Elie Luzac, fils, 1754. Hardcover. Imprint: A Gottingue & Leide, chez Elie Luzac, Fils. vii, [1], 343, [1] p., 31 leaves of folded plates; 26 cm. Signatures: *4 A-2V4 (4to). Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Reddish leather spine label in second compartment... More about Recherches sur l'Usage des Feuilles dans les Plantes, et sur Quelques Autres Sujets Relatifs à...
Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Murray, 1778. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Title page continued: "As also, Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, On the same principles, (with as equal success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry kinds... More about A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing Not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto...
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1855. Hardcover. Second American from the Third and Revised London Edition. 287, [1], 12 p., 1 folded table: in-text drawings and tables; 20 cm. Dark brown rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Bowman's Medical Chemistry. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Final 12 pages contain publisher's catalog... More about A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only: [3], viii-257 p.: 24 in-text illustrations; 16 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title, including series title and volume number. This was vol. 69 of the publisher's School District Library series. Stamped in red on title page: "Col. Coll. Library... More about Paley's Natural Theology, with Illustrative Notes, &c. by Henry Lord Brougham and Sir Charles...
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by H.D. Symonds, 1798. Hardcover. 5 volumes (vii, [1], 332 p.; vii, [1], 332 p.; viii, 320 p; viii, 322 p.; viii, 386, 2 p.): 43 leaves of engraved plates; 18 cm. Full contemporary morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled... More about Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles; Embellished with Upwards of Two Hundred...