Science & Technology Books

Unknown, 1952. Hardcover/No DJ; VG+ (bookplate or label removed); Reprint of 1944 Ed; 178pp; 4to; "the purpose of this book is to furnish useful information about American Welded Wire Fabric to those interested in construction, whether such interest be from the designing, the marketing, or the contracting viewpoint"; profusely illustrated with B&W photos (inc some famous buildings & sites where product was used) & technical drawings; tabbed index; gold lettering/decorative covers.. American Steel & Wire; United States Steel; American Welded Wire Fabric; Concrete Reinforcement; Construction; Building;. (more information)

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NY: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1966. Hardcover/DJ; Near Fine/VG (minor edgewear); Probable 1st Ed; xii,832pp; 8vo; a collection of 316 informative articles by 320 internationally prominent authorities including standard physical principles plus more advanced concepts of quantum mechanics, biophysics, Mossbauer Effect, neutron activation analysis, etc; illustrated with photos, diagrams, tables.. Physics; Science;. (more information)

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MI: Bramson Publishing Co., 1945. Hardcover/DJ; VG+ (pages darkened from age; small owner label)/DJ-VG (light edgewear; spine sunned); 1st Printing stated; 144 pgs; 12mo; profusely illustrated with B&W photos, drawings & ads; includes significant dates in American Mass Production, Invention and Progress; Bibliography. "How the Dreams of Inventors Were Made Commercial and Social History by the Engineers of Production in America". . American Industry; American Business; Mass Production;. (more information)

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London: Neville Spearman, 1970. Hardcover/No DJ; VG+ (small bump top front edge; corner tips lightly bumped; first free endpaper removed, hardly noticeable); 269 pages; 8vo; illustrated, including one fold-out.. Continent of Mu; Mu; Cosmic Forces; James Churchward;. (more information)

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NY: The River Press, 1998. Hardcover/DJ; Fine/Near Fine; 1st Edition, stated; x,365 pages; tall 8vo; "This superb collection celebrates the 100th anniversary of one of the world's leading marine bio-medical research centers...an institution that has had a profound impact on many of the important biological advances of the twentieth century"; profusely illustrated with B&W photos, many of a scientific nature, & some tables; some Chapter Notes, References & Bibliographies.. ISBN: 1-882870-02-6. Marine Biological Laboratories; Salsbury Cove, Maine; Maine Laboratories; Marine Research Labs; Mount Desert Island, Maine; Maine Coast;. (more information)

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Ottawa, Canada: National Museum of Canada , 1966. Hardcover/DJ; VG+ (bottom corners lightly bumped)/DJ-VG (light edgewear; two 1/2" closed tears & one 1" tear); National Museum of Canada Bulletin 203; Presumed 1st Edition; 428 pgs; tall 8vo; "...covers all 519 bird species known to occur in Canada or to have occurred within historic times"; over 420 species illustrated in color, plus B&W drawings; comprehensive text; range maps; includes English, French & scientific names; Glossary; Selected References; Index. . Canada; Birds; Canadian Birds; Ornithology; Zoology;. (more information)

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OK: The American Association of Petroleum Geolologists, 1982. Hardcover/DJ; VG+/VG (light edgewear; 1/4" hold mid spine); Probable 1st Ed; viii,351 pgs; tall 8vo; "The papers included in this volume reflect both the geological and geophysical rationale used in searching for the subtle trap...(with) the scope of the papers (ranging) from the general appraising papers of new concepts and methods, to those relating to specific fields in the United States, Nigeria, China, Australia, Canada, Oman, offshore Spain, and the North Sea"; profusely illustrated with color & B&W photos, stratigraphics, drawings, tables, maps, diagrams & graphs; plus one 2pp fold-out map; Chapter References. . ISBN: 0-89181-309-8. Oklahoma; Oklahoma Petroleum; American Association Petroleum Geologists; Oil & Gas; Geophysicists; Petroleum Discoveries;. (more information)

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NY: Devin-Adair, 1960. Hardcover/DJ; VG+ (light foxing side edge, not affecting interior pgs; prev owner name)/DJ-VG+ (minor edgewear); 1st Ed; xii,242pp; 8vo; an account of the "American shore birds, placing special emphasis on the more familiar and typical species, but including the basic facts about all of them"; includes a chapter on the South American shore birds, plus American shore birds found in Europe, & European & Asiatic birds found here; beautifully illustrated with 95 B&W drawings by John Henry Dick; 4pg Bibliog. . Birds; Shore Birds; Plover; Sandpiper; Henry Marion Hall; John Henry Dick;. (more information)

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US Dept of Agriculture/University of Arizona, 1977. Softcover; VG (light edgewear & minor soil; front cover torn at spine about 2" from bottom edge); Presumed 1st Edition; 117 pges text, 5 pages Guide to Mapping Units, 130 fold-out maps, plus additional 4 fold-outs; illustrated.. Arizona; Maricopa County, Arizona; Soil; Soil Surveys;. (more information)

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Chicago: American School, 1926. Softcover, stapled; VG; 81pages; 12mo; profusely illustrated with great old photos & drawings of scientific equipment.. Science; Physics; Conservation of Energy; Engineering;. (more information)

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NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970. Hardcover/DJ; VG+ (prev owner name/small inscription); 1st Editon; xii,282 pgs; 8vo; profusely illustrated with technical drawings, scales, etc.; References after each chapter.. Earth Science; Continental Drift; Paleomagnetic Information; Global Tectonics; Geology;. (more information)

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NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1889. Hardcover/No DJ; VG (edgewear & spotting on cover; interior VG); 2nd Edition; viii,110 pages; 8vo; "A Description of Foreign Methods for the Mechanical Concentration of Ores, Revised and Corrected, from a Series of Articles in the School of Mines Quarterly of Columbia College"; several technical illustrations.. Ore; Ore Mining; Mechanical Treatment of Ore; Steel Mills; Foreign Mills;. (more information)

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KS: The Robert R. Longo Co., 1957. Hardcover/No DJ; VG (light wear top/bottom spine area; 2 small taped tears on fold-outs); 1st Printing, stated; (12),178 pages; tall 8vo; the plane, named affectionately the 'Tin Goose' over the years...", is eulogized with "...concise, lucid and useful" information & in doing so, the author attempts to "...set a standard for aircraft historical writing in this country"; profusely photo illustrated, plus 2 large fold-outs at rear; 12 Tables of various statistics; 3 pg Bibliography. . Aircraft; Winged Aircraft; Aviation; Aeronautics; Ford Motor Corporation; Ford Tri-Motor Planes; "Tin Goose";. (more information)

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NY: McGraw-Hill, 1944. Hardcover/No DJ; VG+; 1st Ed., 3rd Printing; x,256pp; tall 8vo; chapters on Basic & Advanced Map Reading, Topographic Forms (principles of contour mapping), Landscape Types (geomorphic types) & Air Photographs; profusely illustrated with B&W photos, technical drawings, maps & graphs; No maps in rear.. Photogrammetry; Photography; Aerial Photography; Topographic Forms; Map Reading; World War Two;. (more information)

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NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. Hardcover/DJ; Near Fine (front corners lightly bumped/DJ-VG+; INSCRIBED by Author; 1st Printing; xi,244 pages; 8vo; profusely illustrated with color & B&W photos, drawings, scientific & technical charts & scales; Bibliography; Index; with 1986 newspaper article regarding book with Author's photo laid in. "... a history generously laced with break-throughs and false alarms, philosophical and scientific feuds, and political squabbles. It is also a history in which science and science fiction have anticipated and learned from one another's ideas.". ISBN: 0471846848. Planets; Life on Plants; Solar System; S.E.T.I.; Galaxy;. (more information)

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Denver, CO: Publishers Press, 1939. Softcover, stapled; VG (light edgewear; ink name on front cover); Probable 1st Edition; 62 pgs; illustrated with black & white photos, drawings, cartoons & maps. . Colorado; Trees of Colorado; Forests of Colorado;. (more information)

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Frankfort: Farbwerke Hoechst. Hardcover/No DJ; VG+ (slight fade to spine lettering Vol I; name & date Vol II); Vol I-English-German, 627pp; Vol II-Deutsch-English, 489pp; no date; 12mo.. Textile Printing; Dyeing; Textile Industry; Farbwerke Hoechst; Dictionaries. (more information)

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Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1970. Softcover, stapled; VG+; Plateau: The Quarterly of the Museum of Northern Arizona, Vol. 43, No. 2, Fall, 1970; (4),paged 45-102; 8vo; a field conference in 1970, "...provided incentive to compile a guidebook on certain aspects of work underway, for the most part on the glacial deposits and other sedimentary deposits and mainly in the Interior Valley and east side of the peaks"; "The peaks contain a wonderful geologic record of Pliocene-Pleistocene and Holocene events and processes..."; profusely illustrated with B&W photos, drawings, maps & tables; 3pp Bibliog.. Arizona; San Francisco Mountains; San Francisco Peaks; Geology; Glacial Deposits;. (more information)

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PA: American Philosophical Society, 1952. Hardcover/No DJ; VG+ (small tears top spine); Probable 1st Edition; x,675 pages; 8vo; a biography of Dr. Erwin Frink Smith, World renowned in Plant Pathology & Cancer research; several photos including photo frontis of Smith.. Plant Biology; Plant Pathology; Botany; Andrew Denny Rodgers III; Dr. Erwin Frink Smith;. (more information)

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CA: Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc., 1968. Hardcover/No DJ; Near Fine (very minor wear bottom spine); 1st Edition stated; (10),152 pgs; tall 8vo; "This volume is the fifth in a series identifying and discussing the seemingly endless combinations of functional and decorative design features embodied in aluminum extrusions"; profusely illustrated with photos, diagrams, tables.. Architecture; Aluminum in Architecture; Building; Construction;. (more information)

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FL: CRC Press, 1987. Hardcover/No DJ as issued; Near Fine (bottom corner removed from title page, about 2"); Probable 1st Ed; (10),209 pgs; 8vo; these manuscripts came about as a result of the "Symposium on the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Industrial Yeasts, Brook Lodge, Kalamazoo, Mich., October 25 to 30, 1985, sponsored jointly by the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo and Labatt Brewing Company, Ltd., London, Ontario, Canada...(bringing) together, in one forum, industrial and academic scientists"; profusely illustrated with scientific sketches, tables & charts; Chapter References; List of Contributors. . ISBN: 0-8493-4901-X. Congresses Yeast; Yeast Industry; Graham G. Stewart; Biology of Industrial Yeasts; Symposium on Industrial Yeasts; Upjoh Company; Labatt Brewing Company; Inge Russell;. (more information)

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NY: Macmillan Company, 1962. Hardcover/DJ; VG+ (1/2" spot rear cover)/DJ-VG (light edgewear); 1st Printing; 544pp; 8vo; "...begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy at the turn of the century and proceeds to the advances of the last sixty years"; illustrated w/over 200 photographs & diagrams; List of Constellations; Glossary; Bibliog. . Astronomy;. (more information)

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NY: IBM Corp.. Softcover, stapled; VG+; No date, circa 1970; Probable 1st Ed; 24pp; tall 8vo; "Since 1951, (IBM's) traveling exhibitions of models built according to Leonardo's scientific and technical drawings have been shown in museums, colleges,..." and part of those exhibitions are displayed in this booklet; profusely illustrated with B&W photos & drawings of daVinci's inventions.. . Leonardo daVinci; IBM; IBM Art Collection; Corporate Art Collections;. (more information)

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NY: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1970. Hardcover/DJ; Fine (corporate stamp on title page with wording: Company Name, Authorized Item, Authorized By, Not for Sale)/DJ-VG+ (minor edgewear; rubbed); Probable 1st Edition; x,190 pgs; 8vo; "The fundamental principles of the theory of groundwater flow are presented and the most effective methods for solving some elementary problems are described...(also) the method of images is thoroughly discussed as well as the complex variable method for solving two-dimensional problems"; profusely illustrated with diagrams, graphs & mathematical equations; Chapter References; Appendix: Bessel Functions; Conversion Factors; Index.. Civil Egineering; Groundwater Flow; Engineering in Hydrology; Coastal Hydraulics; Hydrology; Analysis of Surge; NOBN;. (more information)

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