Boston: Popular Science News Co., 1889. Hardcover. Editors: Austin P. Nichols and W.J. Rolfe. viii, 190 p.: illustrations; 31 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment and volume number and year in fourth compartment. Marbled paper over boards. First 8..... More

New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1854. Hardcover. [6], 297 p.: illustrations, tables; 19 cm. Black leather spine; printed paper over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Cover title: Stoddard's Practical Arithmetic. Publisher's advertisement on back board. Copyrighted in 1852 by Cornish, Lamport & Co. Imprint includes: Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.;..... More

London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1915. Hardcover. xv, [1], 309, [11] p., 21 leaves of folded plates: many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; publisher's emblem blind-stamped on front board. Although 19 leaves of folded plates are called for, there are actually 21. Publisher's advertisements on..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 310 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. A "richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms..... More

Pest [Hungary]: C.A. Hartleben, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 461, [3] p.: many in-text drawings and tables; 22 cm. Contemporary black sand-grain cloth with dark blue library mending cloth over spine. All page edges marbled. Reddish-brown endpapers. Bibliography, "Zur Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen": p. [11]-48. Small..... More

Paris: L'Imprimerie de Rignoux, 1825. Pamphlet. 2, [2] p.; 25 cm. Caption title. "Académie Royale de Médecine" -- at head of title. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). The author, Julien Joseph Virey (1775-1846), was a French pharmacist and is credited with..... More

Philadelphia: Vulcan Assembly of Philadelphia, 1927. Paperback. 10, [6] p.; 15 cm. Light grey wrappers printed in dark blue. Wrapper title. Final 3 pages blank. A brief history of the Vulcan Assembly of Philadelphia, a fraternal organization of industrial engineers who worked with steam engines and boilers. It was organized..... More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [2] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Sears Cook Walker (1805-1853) was an American astronomer who worked at the United States Naval Observatory and later for the United States Coast Survey; he also investigated the orbit of the..... More

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1892. Hardcover. [8], 848 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Modern bonded leather spine with gilt-tooled spine label; contemporary marbled paper over boards. All page edges marbled. First Edition. Garrison-Morton, 235. Contains 12 essays by German evolutionary biologist August Weismann (1834-1914), including his rejection of the theory of the..... More

Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1955. Paperback. xiii, [1], 242 p., 2 folded tables: tables; 24 cm. Beige wrappers printed in dark brown. In Good Condition: cover lightly soiled; back cover creased; fore-edge of last 4 leaves creased and chipped; clean and tight. More

Halle im Magdeburgischen: Renger Buchhandlung, 1722. Hardcover. [14], 568, [8] p., engraved frontispiece and xiv folded leaves of plates; 17 cm. Signatures: ):(7 A-Z8 Aa-Nn8 (8vo). Contemporary vellum with gilt-tooled spine title over a brown background. All page edges dark red. Title page in red and black. Woodcut head- and..... More

Brooklyn: Henry R. Worthington Co., 1896. [21] leaves of photographic reproductions of drawings; 25 cm. Morocco-grain binder with 2 metal fasteners. Written inside front cover: "Reproduction of drawings accampanyinng proposal of Henry R. Worthington Chicago Nov 14th /96." Henry Rossiter Worthington (1817-1880) was an American mechanical engineer who patented the..... More