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 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

York, Pa. York Graphic Services, 1990. Paperback. 33, [3], p.; 23 cm. White paper covers printed in blue. Text printed in blue. No date of publication; York Graphic Services was in business from the early 1970s to 1999 or later. In Near Fine Condition: spine is lightly rubbed; clean and bright. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1882. Hardcover. 108 p., 13 leaves of plates (12 containing cloud identifications): in-text and full-page drawings and tables (several folded tables); 24 cm. Original black cloth with gilt-stamped cover title. Blind-ruled borders on both boards. Includes drawings and instructions for thermometers, Green's standard barometer, rain... 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

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. 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

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. 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

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

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: 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