Search Results: Titles starting with H from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1946. Folio. 96 pp. Illust. title, numerous illusts., colour plates. Colour-illust. boards, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition, stated, of this rendering of the famed operetta.

London & Sydney: Collins, 1955-1956. Two vols. 8vo. 320; 318 pp. 1st vol. w/ illustrated endpapers featuring map in front, diagram of ship in rear, in red tweed boards, gilt lettering on spine (very slight bumping at couple corners, dustsoiling), w/ d.j. cover art of HMS Ulysses by John Rose (slight toning to back cover), w/ bookseller’s label at gutter margin for Angus & Robertson; 2nd vol. w/ blue tweed boards, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art of guns firing (slight toning to rear cover), NF/NF set. First editions (export versions w/o prices on front flaps) of the author’s first two novels. Maclean wrote HMS Ulysses in 10 weeks, and was at the time one of the highest selling novels in post-War England, relating the story of a light cruiser and her run through the North Atlantic during World War II. The second detailing the efforts of Allied Commandos destroying a fortress in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, later made into the 1961 movie with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn.

Rochester, NY: The H & M Division, Taylor Instrument Companies, 1913. Tall 8vo. 55, [1] pp. Photo illustrations, text illustrations throughout, with a couple colour-tinted diagrams. Embossed & illustrated green softcovers, raised lettering in blind, black lettering, cover art illustration embossed of thermometer (minor shelfwear, darkening, & minor chipping to spine), still VG copy. First edition of this scarce and well-illustrated catalogue of thermometers for the brewing industry, including angle thermometers, mash tub thermometers, fermenting tub thermometers, brewer’s saccharometers, recorder themometers, index thermometers for Pasteurizers, fermenters, and more. In addition, there are Stormographs, airmeters, and anemometers also advertised for sale. Originally H&M (Hohmann & Maurer) was acquired by the Taylor Bros. Co. in 1896, merged into the Taylor Instrument Companies in 1907, and were well known for their precise and excellent thermometers. Taylor established the first research &… Read More

Hackbridge, Surrey: Hackbridge Electric Construction Co., Ltd., [ca. 1930]. 4to. 6 leaves, 13 photo plates, w/ additional information leaf. Text illust. Printed softcvrs, bound at spine w/ ribbon (chwng to fore-edge of margn on cvrs & textblk), still good. First edition of this Electrical Equipment catalogue illustrating Hackbridge Transformers installed in the British Power Grid.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1940. Folio. xvii, [1], 265, [1] pp. Title in red & black, Frontisp., 46 plates, 34 text illustrations, diagrams, photos. Red cloth, gilt lettering & illustration on front cover, gilt lettering on spine (minor bumping to lower two corners, minor rubbing), still a VG- copy, from the library of William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership markings on front pastedown, as well as a series of corrections in pencil by MacDonald in the margins. First edition of this excellent work on the famed Hagia Sophia, including a history of the Great Church, description, principles of design, structure, decoration, and specific interior & exterior details by level.

[Santa Clara, CA]: Univ. of Santa Clara Press, 1946. 8vo. xii, [2], 559, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates, maps. Green cloth, gilt lettrng on spine (mnr rubbng, shlfwr, ex-lib mrkngs on endpapers, title), still a G copy. First edition.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, [1980]. 8vo. 477, [3] pp. Dark gray cloth, white & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, couple vry sml clsd tears), NF/VG- copy. First edition in English of this work portraying the great Russian poet as the prophet of the great social revolution that transformed Russia.

[Tokyo, Japan: JICC, Inc., Kodansha International, 1986]. 4to. 80 pp. Numerous colour photo illustrations, colour plates. Gray boards, w/ d.j. (price-clipped) NF/NF copy, from the library of William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership initials on half-title. First edition.

New York: Theo. Audel & Co., 63 Fifth Ave., 1901. Tall 8vo. 330 pp., plus 14 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp. portrait in green & black, numerous text woodcut engravings, diagrams, equations, tables. Embossed green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, t.e.g. (fraying head & foot of spine, edgewear, rubbing to covers), still VG- copy. Early printing of this excellent handbook by this prolific American inventor, publisher, and author who also wrote under the pen name of Theodore Audel. Included are sections on mechanics, basic mathematics, tables, weights & measures, currency conversion, wage tables, and much more.

West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., [1991]. 4to. 184, [4] pp. 100s of black & white photos, text illustrations, colour illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers, NF copy. First edition of this invaluable guide to the history, styles, and types of handbags and purses, including those made up to the 20th century, beaded bags, the Chatelaine bag, mesh bags, and finally handbags of the 1930s through 1950s, along with the original advertisements.

Cleveland, OH: Chemical Rubber Co., [1966]. 8vo. xv, [1], 362 pp. 100s of tables. Green cloth, blk & gilt lettrng (frmr ownrshp stmp on verso of title, rust mrk frm old paperclip to uppr fore-edge first few leaves), VG-, from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 549 & 551 Broadway, 1873. 8vo. xx, 284 pp., plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Plum-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth, embossed borders front & back covers, gilt lettering on spine (minor chipping head & foot of spine, slight sunning, edgewear, w/o ffep.), still a VG- copy, from the libraries of H.M. Hosick (1845-1935), noted dealer in leathers, furs & hides in Chicago, IL, and Jean F. Carroll (1900-1973), former Kroger Executive, and son of Iowa Governor Beryl F. Carroll (1860-1939). First American edition of this significant French work on labor unions, labor organizing, originally published as L’ABC du travailleur in 1868, drawing from interviews by the author with Parisian workers, artisans, and laborers. Prepared against the backdrop of the attempted reforms by Napoleon III during the Second Empire, there had been passed an 1864 right to strike law, but workers could decide whether to participate independently, and still restricted from freedom, while many laws… Read More

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1998. 4to. xvi, 791, [1] pp. 100’s illusts., photos, maps, text diagrams, tables. Gray cloth, red band, gilt lettering on spine (slight tide mark at lower fore-edge of a couple leaves, very minor soiling), still VG copy. First edition of this exhaustive volume in this historic set projected to be published in 20 volumes. This work examines the history, language and culture of the Shuswap, Lilloet, Thompson, Nicola, Northern Okanagan, Kootenai, Kalispel, Salishans, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Flathead, Pend d’Oreille, Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Yakima, Molala, Klamath, Modoc, Wasco, Wishram, and Cascades Indian tribes.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1918. 12mo. 72 pp. With 9 plates (a couple photographic, 2 large folding). Light blue printed softcovers (minor edgewear, dustsoiling, very minor creasing to corners), still VG copy, from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair (1895-1971), enlisted in 1917, trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan, CO, and Fort Douglas, UT, and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, KS. First edition of this very scarce, and excellent United States Army manual on the updated M1917 Machine Gun developed by Carl Swebilius, a longtime Swedish-American Marlin gunsmith and engineer which was sold originally to the Army as a machine gun for tanks. This improved version was designed for use in Army Air Corps airplanes, with many aluminum parts to conserve weight using Constantinesco-Colley synchronizing gear firing through the plane’s spinning propellers, and were well received as they did not have the problems of… Read More

London: Strahan & Co., 56, Ludgate Hill, 1872. 8vo. xx, 284 pp. Dark green-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth, embossed black ruling covers & spine gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, inner hinges a touch weakened slight lean), still a VG bright copy. First British edition of this significant French work on labor unions, labor organizing, originally published as L’ABC du travailleur in 1868, drawing from interviews by the author with Parisian workers, artisans, and laborers. Prepared against the backdrop of the attempted reforms by Napoleon III during the Second Empire, there had been passed an 1864 right to strike law, but workers could decide whether to participate independently, and still restricted from freedom, while many laws controlling what licenses and papers workers had to retain, whether they could change employers, and much more were still in place. Great Britain experienced a series of strikes from 1870 through 1872 including the Metropolitan Police Strike, Gas Stokers’… Read More

Vancouver, B.C.: Board of Park Commissioners, Park Board Offices, 1925. 8vo. 70 pp. Colour frontisp., numerous photo plates, 1 large folding colour map. Tan colour-illustrated softcovers, Arts & Crafts cover art of swans swimming in park lake, yapp fore-edge (minor creasing & edgewear, creasing to a few corners, minor fold creases at fore-edge of folding map), still a VG copy. First edition of this work illustrating and outlining many of the improvements and changes brought to Stanley Park during the first decade of Rawlings (1882-1937) as Park Superintendent. These changes included the construction of the Lost Lagoon Lake, saltwater pipes were shut off turning it into a freshwater lake, with many other changes. This work also details several other newly acquired parks during the Progressive Era, as well as improvements initiated for beach access, bathing facilities, and upgrades for automobile tours. See: Christina Cameron, Jim Barlow & Susan Mundick, Stanley Park, National Historic Site of Canada,… Read More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. 8vo. 25, [1] pp. With 12 plates (most photographic). Tan printed softcovers (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, minor creasing to couple corners), still VG copy, from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair (1895-1971), enlisted in 1917, trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan, CO, and Fort Douglas, UT, and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, KS. Revised edition of this work on using telescopic coincidence rangefinders which used parallax to calculate the range by adjusting the two separate images until they were aligned and then the range could be calculated.

Basel: Verlag Birkhauser, 1955. Tall 8vo. 436 pp. Green cloth, gilt lettrng (ex-lib mrkng on title, light residue labl frnt cvr), still VG- copy from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition. Vol 15 in the Mathematische Reihe of Lehrbucher und Monographie aus dem Gbeiete der exacten Wissenschaften.

Berlin: Vereins Buchhandlung, 1839. 8vo. xii, 702 pp. Numerous text illusts., diagrams. Contemporary three-quarter-green cloth over marbled boards (chppng & fryng hd & ft of spine, crnrs, wear, scuffng, interior foxing), still G referencecopy. First edition of this scarce and comprehensive work on the sciences, including sections on mathematics, mechanics, optics, physics, chemistry, meteorology, electricity, magnetism, mineralogy, biology, botany, zoology, and more. Worldcat locates 2 copies.

Kiel und Leipzig: Verlag von Lipsius & Tishcner, 1893. 8vo. xiii, 220 pp. Title in red & black, with over 300 text woodcut engraved illustrations throughout. Ribbed plum-coloured publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine, Red Cross symbon on front cover, rounded corners (minor sunning to spine), still a VG copy, from the library of noted colour landscape photographer, Russell Lamb (1929-2009). Fourth edition, revised & expanded, of this excellent and well-illustrated handbook first installment in the pair of author’s opus on military surgery, and focuses on triage of soldier’s wounds, with extensive descriptions on detailing how to use triangular bandages invented by Dr. Mayor of Lausanne on the battlefield. Esmarch pioneered much of the splinting still used in modern medicine, and was the inventor of using ice bags to staunch pain & blood flow.