Pittsburgh, Pa. Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1912. Paperback. 44 p., 2 leaves of folded plates: in-text and full-page illustrations; 18 cm. Black cloth spine with dark brown covers printed in black. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was founded in 1869 by George Westinghouse (1846-1914), inventor of the railroad braking system..... More
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806. Hardcover. "Printed by Manning and Loring. Sold by them, and by Etheridge & Bliss, Boston; Cushing & Appleton, Salem; Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport; Charles Peirce, Portsmouth; Henry Cushing, Provience; Lincoln & Gleason, Hartford; Bronson, Walter & Co. New-Haven; I. Thomas, jun. Worcester; J. Prentiss, Keene;..... More
Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1806. Hardcover. "This American Edition, printed from the last London edition, edited by William James, mathematical instrument maker, is carefully revised and corrected, by Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematicks, and Teacher of Natural Philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania." 508 p., 10 folded leaves of engraved..... More
New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1942. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Impression. vi, [2], 554 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Appendix contains tables of natural trigonometric functions. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Harry F. Freeland. In Near..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948. 2nd Edition. By William R. Amberson and Dietrich C. Smith. ix, 502 p.: 193 in-text illustrations by Norris Jones and William Loechel; 26 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title on green background. No dust jacket. Book plate of Jacob W. Gruber on front fixed endpaper..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![Item #003756 A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry [provenance: Jonathan Havens]. John E. Bowman](/pictures/thumb/003756.JPG?v=1472082311)
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
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
Philadelphia: Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1935. 1 printed form filled in by hand. The Zoological Society of Philadelphia thanks Howard Page Wood for the gift of one spiny soft-shelled turtle. Signed by the director, C. Emerson Brown. Undated. Clarence Emerson Brown (1869-1949) was director of the Philadelphia Zoo from 1922..... More
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