Engineering

New York: The Engineer Record. Very Good+. 1897-98. Hardcover. Volume XXXVII, December 1897 -May 1898. Clean marbled boards with brown cloth corners & spine. Paper spine label with gilt lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W photographs and architectural drawings. X-Library: with some internal markings, including a book plate. Technical, Engineering; Ex-Library; B/W Photo & Drawings; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 576 pages .

Springer Science + Business Media. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2004. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 318 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 2: KB#007490: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of nuclear solid state physics with synchrotron radiation, a technique that is finding a number of unique applications in fields such as magnetism, surface science, and lattice dynamics. Due to the remarkable brilliance of modern synchrotron radiation sources, the method is particularly suited for the studying thin films, nanoparticles and clusters. Its high isotopic specifity can be employed to measure magnetic or vibrational properties with very high spatial resolution. The book is written on a introductory level and is thus suited for newcomers to the field. Many examples are presented to illustrate the unique… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. First Edition, accompanied by original typed manuscript with graphs and drawings. BOOK: "First Edition" stated on title page. Clean dark green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with previous owner name and address in light pencil on front free endpaper. 606 pages with index. Manuscript is gathered in black notebook, dated August 1947 on title page. 180 pages on 8-1/2" x 11" typewritten sheets with drawings and graphs. All pages clean..

Quarter red calf. Approximately 151 volumes uniformly bound in a very attractive, yet sturdy quarter red calf for J.M.B. (at foot of spine) about 1920. Numerous fold-out plates. All volumes remarkably supple & durable without the expected defects. ; Includes Decrets, Memoires, Indices; 8vo ; Ducrets: Vol. I (1862) - vol. X (1871) Sixieme Serie (complete - 10 )Vol. I (1872) - vol. III (1874), IV, V, VI + VII, VIII + vol. IX (1880), X (1881) Septieme Serie (complete - 10)Vol. I (1882) - vol. VI (1887) + vol. VIII (1889) - vol.X (1891) Huitieme Serie (8 volumes)Vol. I (1892) - vol. X (1901) Neuvieme Serie (complete -- 10)Vol. I (1902) - vol. X (1911) Dixieme Serie (complete -- 10)Vol. I (1912), II (1913), III (1914) Onziemie Serie (3 volumes)Memoires: Vol. I, II (1862) - vol. III, IV (1863) + vol. IX, X (1866) - vol. XI, XII (1867)Vol. XV, XVI (1869) - vol. XVII, XVIII (1870) - vol. XIX (1871) SixiemeSerie (13 volumes)Vol. I, II (1872) + vol. IV, V… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

Troy NY: W. & L. E. Gurley, 1874. Twenty First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. This is the Twenty First Edition. 234 pages plus table of contents and ads. American Engineers & Surveyors Instruments. catalog of products available including solar compass, compasses, transits, leveling instruments, hand levels, barometers, many types of measuring tapes, etc. many illustrations. a few small spots on covers. tiny pinhole to cloth at spine. light foxing to inner front and rear cover. rear free end page lacking. ; 4 1/2 x 6 3/4

Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 51, [1] p., 62 leaves of engraved plates, including 4 double-leaf plates (2 folded) containing 72 drawings, plans, and maps; 29 x46 cm. Contemporary half calf with plain boards. Printed paper label on front board. Errata slip tipped in following title page. Howes, S 1075. The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement, organized in 1824, sent William Strickland (1787-1854) to England in 1825 to study the most recent developments in transportation engineering in order to improve the ability to travel and ship goods across the state. Over the course of the year, Strickland sent home reports on canals, railways, roads, and iron-making from Great Britain. After his return in Dec., he was appointed engineer of the Pennsylvania State Canal and his reports were issued in this volume. The great interest that it generated is indicated by the 2-page list of subscribers, among whom were canal companies (Delaware… Read More

Bruxelles: Meline, 1837. Leatherbound. Published Bruxelles: Meline, 1837. text in french. 8vo., 341pp., 8 fold-out plates. 1/4 leather with gilt spine titles and designs over burgundy and black marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Crack to the leather at the front hinge, hinge strong, cover intact. some rub to the boards. Internally very good plus, pages and plates clean, crisp and bright with no foxing.. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Glasgow: North British Locomotive Co.Ltd. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [1920]. 123pp, photos, map, landscape format, brown cloth/dec sl worn/stained, contents v good. Attractive manufacturer's presentation volume, printed on art paper. Scarce..

Toledo: Willys-Overland Export Corporation, 1958. Service manual for these innovative but uncommon light trucks. Mostly scorned by the American public, they found more favor as industrial & government vehicles around the world. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, some rubbing, minor creases, some internal foxing extending to page edges. Text clean; 210 pages, many tables, diagrams, b/w photos. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8½" by 11".

Caracas, Venezuela: Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, 2001. First edition. Hard cover. Published Caracas, Venezuela: Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, 2001. Folio, 11 1/2" x 12 1/2", 200pp., illustrated with full color photos of Thea Segall. Text in Spanish and English. Green cloth with silver titles and color cover inlay. Caroni River hydroelectric power. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. Folio.

NY: Society of Mining Engineers, 1973. Hard cover 2 volume set. Published NY: Society of Mining Engineers, 1973. Thick 8vo.'s containg 35 in-depth sections of technical data and guidlines, illustrated with tables, formulas and reproductions. An authoritative reference and design source. Red letherette with gilt titles. A near fine set - clean, bright, unmarked.. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1941. 2 Volume set. Third Edition. Published NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1941. Thick 8vo's., profusely illustrated with tables, charts and reproductions. Limp burgundy leatherette with rounded corners and gilt titles. Previous owner name on fly leaf, near fine, clean, attractive set. Unworn. . Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1941. Fourth Edition. Hard cover. Published NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1941, sixth printing (1943). Thick 12mo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/8", xx+2274pp., extensively illustrated with figures, tables and reproductions. Limp burgundy leatherette with gilt titles, thumb indexed sections, all edges tinted burgundy. A fine copy. Tight, unworn, pages bright, unmarked. . Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression 1921 on the title page. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Blue boards withdark red- orange titling. 274 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Summary "King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world genre."