Boston: American Bell Telephone Co., 1980. Hardcover. iv, 469 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Yellow floral endpapers. Stamps on endpapers and title page indicating that this book belonged to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Public Relations Library and the A.T. & T.... More
Chestnut Hill, MA: Adams Brown Co., 1945. Paperback. 6 p.; 22 cm. Folded pamphlet. This pamphlet is about the "Miraculous New Insecticide" DDT, or dodiphenyltrichloroethane. It discusses its use during the war and expectations of post-war use, listing 13 American companies from which experimental quantities could be obtained. Scarce. In... More
Chicago: Fred de Land, Publisher, 1894. Paperback. iv, 37-80, v-viii p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Light yellow wrappers (paperback) with advertisements on both sides of front and back wrapper. The publisher, Fred de Land, was involved in the development of telephone companies in the United States in the late 19th... More
Chicago: Fred de Land, Publisher, 1894. Paperback. iv p., [approx. 30] leaves: illustrated advertisements; 23 cm. Light green wrappers (paperback) with advertisements on both sides of front and back wrapper. The publisher, Fred de Land, was involved in the development of telephone companies in the United States in the late... More
London: 1661. Hardcover. Title continued: "together with many remarkable Accidents and Judgments befalling divers Persons, according as they have been testified by very credible hands; all which have happened within the space of one year last past, and are now made publick for a seasonable Warning to the People of... More
S.l. General Electric Co., 1906. 1 leaf (19 x 14 cm.) with color advertisement for the electric fan sold by General Electric. With a striking color illustration of a Dutch woman in wooden shoes in the fore-ground, with the wind blowing her dress, and a traditional wooden windmill in the... More
Philadelphia: Cutter Electrical & Mfg. Co., 1919. Hardcover. 263, [1] p.: illustrations, diagrams, tables; 24 cm. Blue cloth with white spine and cover titles. Spine title: Circuit (I-T-E) Breakers. No date of publication; 1919 is the year assigned in WordCat records. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Cornelius C.... More
Chicago: Under-Feed Stoker Company of America, 1910. Paperback. 46, [1] p.: illustrations, plans; 31 cm. Stapled brown card covers with embossed green-and-silver cover title. No date of publication. Evan William Jones (1852-1908) invented the under-feed stoker in 1892 and formed the Under-Feed Stoker Company of America to manufacture the Jones... More
Paris: G. Masson, Libraire de l'Académie de Médecine de Paris, 1878. Hardcover. Quatrieme série. Tome vingt-septiéme. 631 p., 10 leaves of plates (5 folded): includes in-text drawings; 22 cm. Contemporary half green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title and decorative rules. All paged edges lightly speckled. Marbled..... More
Schaffhausen, Switz. George Fischer Limited, 1947. Hardcover. 53 p.: 16 p. of illustrations; 30 cm. Red cloth spine with white handmade paper over boards. Gilt-stamped spine and cover titles: Johann Conrad Fischer 1773-1854 a Swiss Metallurgist. No dust jacket. Former owner's name stamped on front free endpaper: R.J. Luebbers. In... More
London: J. Limbird, 1836. Hardcover. Title continued: "Select Extracts from New and Expensive Works; Poetry, Original and Selected; The Spirit of the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in Natural History &c." viii, 472 p.: frontispiece portrait of Felicia Hemans, many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22... More
West Hartford, Conn: American Radio Relay League, 1931. Paperback. April 1931. Vol. XV No. 4. 96 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Orange and black paper covers. This issue of QST features articles by George Grammer, VHF pioneer Ross A. Hull, and others. In Good condition: front cover separated; lower corner of... More
West Hartford, Conn: American Radio Relay League, 1931. Paperback. March 1931. Vol. XV No. 3. 96 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Orange and black paper covers. Penciled notation at head of front cover; faint stamp on back cover for the Broadway Store. This issue of QST features articles by VHF pioneer... More
New York: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1933. Hardcover. viii, [2], 733, [5] p.: drawings, charts, tables; 22 cm. Black pebble-grain cloth. Gilt?-stamped spine title (lacking gilt). Embossed cover title. Final 16 leaves containing American standards, standards committees, an alphabetical index, and an index to advertisers are printed on yellow paper... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. Hardcover. 525, [3] p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of William Emerson, 5 leaves of heavier stock with color illustrations precede sections, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Suede binding with black-stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Grey endpapers with "Ex Libris" printed... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1925. Hardcover. 520 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Allan Winter Rowe, 3 leaves of color illustrations of the campus reproduced from the original water colors by Nelson C. Chase with captioned tissue guards, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Full leather binding with... More
Cambridge, Mass. War Records Committee of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1920. Hardcover. ix, [1], 747 p.: frontispiece portrait of Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Contemporary full burgundy morocco with five spine compartments. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; gilt-stamped cover decoration. All page... More
Troy, MI: Vickers, Sperry Rand, 1960. Paperback. 16 p.: illustrations, tables, diagrams; 28 cm. Paperback with blue covers printed in black. No date of publication. Sperry Rand was formed in 1955; in 1978 it sold Sperry Vickers division. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Pittsburgh, Pa. Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1890. Hardcover. 63 p.: tables, and, in pocket following text: 4 large folded plans, 2 cards with moveable levers over plans, and 8-page pamphlet; 17 cm. Black morocco-grain cloth with gilt-stamped title on flap: The Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Instruction Book. Errata slip tipped... More
Cambridge, Mass. Inventing the Internet, 1999. Hardcover. viii, [2], 264 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Inside Technology. Contents: White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching -- Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies --... More
New York and London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; Edward Arnold, 1914. Hardcover. xii, 336 p.: in-text drawings, photographs, tables; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Errata slip bound in between p. xii and p.1. Includes examinations, glossary of technical terms, and an index. Ex-library: remains of white... 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
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London: Amalgamated Press, 1929. Paperback. 28 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Front wrapper has illustration in red and blue of boys playing cricket. Running title: The Gem Library. Contents: Grundy's Cricket Match by Martin Clifford [complete] -- Famous Daredevils: Ernest Shackleton -- Marvels of the Future: Television in War [a fascinating... More