Search Results: Science And Technology from Good Old Books

UW- Madison: National Science Foundation, 1997. Book. Good. Paper. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 692 pages, underlining and notes..

New York: A.O. Smith, 1944. Book. A.O. Smith. Binder. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is a thick binder alphabetically categorized book which includes many charts, industrial facts, and a history of the company (Technical Standards, A1-1, ( 5-27-49 ) The book was created by James O. Christenson: A cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Jim served with distinction in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1946, winning the Legion of Merit award, then worked for the A.O. Smith Corporation for 41 years as an engineer, international sales director, and vice director of A.O. Smith's joint venture automotive plant in Monterey, Mexico. This is his functional library of information would be fascinating to anyone interested in this historical company... many pages..

Lynn, Mass.: Bubier Publishing Company, 1902. Book. Very Good+. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 82 pages, very attractive copy with very readable gilt decoration and writing. Tight..

Rochester, N.Y.: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 1934. Book. Very Good. Fake Leather. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 455 pages, a couple of small tears on pages 451-454, backstrip faded. Many illusstrations including microscopes from B & L..

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. Book. Illus. by Geoffrey Watson. Near Fine. Cloth. Ninth Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 148 pages with 54 pages of illustrations of airplanes from 1910 to 1928, engines of these airplanes, and charts of characteristics of airplane engines. Chipping on backstrip with several rips on dust jacket..

Heidelberg, 1889. Book. Very Good. Board with Cloth Spine. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 55 pages also with De Antiquitate & praestantia Medicinae by Henricus Smetius in Latin. Front hinge is disconnected although the book, being thin, is still bound..

New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1914. Book. Very Good. Green Buckram. Reprint. 253 pages including index, colored frontispiece- Volume 6, Part 1, light wear to boards..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 804 pages, a nice copy with great info on Earth and Sun as Magnets, Weather, Astronomy, Geological History of China and many other subjects. Very mild stains..

Washington D.C.: U. S. Government, 1863. Book. Very Good. Blindstamped Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Binding is tight, small abrasion to backstrip, very slightly soiled, some pages are browning. The book is very interesting with many excellent articles dealing with sciences of the time..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 576 pages, rear hinge starting, new measurements of the distance of the sun, photographing lightning with a moving camera, tantalum lamp,progress in radiography, history of photography, genesis of the diamond, the cullinan diamond, submarine navigation, liberia, geographical results of the tibet mission, development of rhodesia, ethics of japanese ethics, plague in india, fight against yellow fever, luminosity in plants..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944. Book. Very Good. Paper. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 120 pages, 12 pages of plates in Number 30. 82 pages in Number 31. Subtle dampstain on bottom inside margin very inconspicuous very light stamp on cover..

New York: Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1895. Book. Very Good+. Blue Cloth. Fourth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 138 pages, the book is quite clean, the silver on blue titling quite attractive. There is some minor stains to cover, internally very clean..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Book. Very Good. Board. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 284 pages including index, profusely illustrated, signed and inscribed by the author.

London: Methuen, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Green Cloth. First Ed.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 292 page, very superficial wear..

Madison, Wi.: University Wisconsin Press, 1962. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 673 pages including author and subject index. Minor wear to dust jacket..

Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1912. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 196 pages, a few pages are folded..

Mount Carmel, Connecticut: William G. Lathrop, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Revised & Expanded Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 174 pages including index, nice condition with illustration of prominent developers of the brass industry, and it's history in the United States starting in the Naugatuck Valley..

Butte, Montana: Anaconda Copper Mining Company Book. Very Good-. Paper. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 44 pages, edges of the decorative paper boards are rather ragged, backstrip torn a bit at crease. Internall nice with photographs of the industry..

Israel: Ma'ariv Book Guild, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Board. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 191 pages, this famous scientific book in Hebrew. Scarce..

Chicago & New York: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1952. Magazine. Near Fine. Paper. First Ed.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 39 pages, Volume 8, no. 5: Senator Vandenberg on atomic energy, US Disarmament Proposals and atomic policy, Science and politics in Britain: Lord Cherwell/.