CollectifLivre Rare Book
60 résultats
19801076171980 Printed in the People's Republic of China - 1980 - 1 plaquette 24 x 12,5 cm- Texte en chinois - 27 planches en couleur de cerfs-volants à décor animalier -
Features: New knowledge on the rise of man - the Oriental Institute is a great research laboratory for the investigation of the early career of civilized man; Editorials - air transport - "seed" - a weapon for peace; Ultr-violet light and forgery - by making use of fluorescence, professional investigators detect forgeries in documents; Avalances and avalanche protection - in the Alps, great structures are necessary to divert avalanches; Things that happen in sunspots - An astronomer's photograph of the spectrum of a sunspot may give him material for many months of study and analysis; America emerges from partial maritime eclipse - completion of the first of two great liners for the north Atlantic route gives a promise of a revived great merchant marine; Flying in the beginning - from man-carrying kites, the army experimenters turned to gliders; In a rifle factory - over 2500 operations are required to produce accurate rifles that stand the test of use; Factory punishment for tires; Physical laboratories of the stars - the atoms in the stars have been braodcasting a description of their surroundings for millions of years; Profiting by enforced leisure - children, unemployed persons, hospital patients, and even jail inmates are increasing their demand for helpful books; Hoover Dam - conclusion - materials, supplies, manpower, and future program; The liner that cannot roll - new italian line ship has world's largest gyro-stabilizer plant; A post office for freight - New Union freight terminal in New York is first step in solution of freight handling and distribution problem; Houses of the future - they may be made in factories to individual design; Salmon fishing - great industry brings millions of dollars yearly to the pacific coast - how the salmon are caught and canned. Prior owner's pencilled name mostly erased from top of front cover. Book
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 253 pages. Contents include: Folk Toys: Wheels, Kites, Floaters, Stilts and Stick Horses, Weapons, Dolls, Toy Box, Folk Games: Gusssing and Gambling, Chasing and capturing, Sticks and stones, Marbles, Tops and knives, Rhythm games, Essays on toys and games.
222p. Illustrated with 260 color photographs. Large 4to. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Fine copy. ART BOX 8
793 p. Text illustrations. Eges uncut. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Bookplate of Samuel Hull Dyke. First Edition. Part XI. A Descriptive catalog of birds, including: The American Vulture; Hawks; Eagles; Kites; Harriers; Old World Vultures; Ospreys; Falcons; and Caracaras. Full descriptions and synonymics. This carries on a series started by Robert Ridgway covering all the birds of North America. NH9
From an excellent set of craft books. Abunantly illustrated. Topics in this volume include: Hooked Rugs; Ice Cream; Sherbet and Ices; Ikebana; Inkle Weaving; Insects; Jewelry; Kaleidoscopes; Kayaks; Kilns; Kites; Knitting to Fit; Lace. Clean, bright and unmarked but for prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Features: The Termagant - a story of youth and age; The Picture Puzzle - III - continuing Miss Blake's fascinating mystery story; The Eye-Sharpener - An early adventure in salesmanship; On Trial - the story of a boy's first adventure in the business world; If I could travel; Miscellany; Fact and Comment - Lindbergh and the world, Our new Money; This Busy World - a new Russian Terror, Ireland at the Polls; The Y.C. Lab - Man-Lifting Kites; Best Puzzles of the week. Kraft paper affixed along cover fold of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
ARR001e3London, Hurst and Blackett, 1902. In-8, 328pp., nombr. ill., cartonnage éditeur illustré.
199554135Seattle WA: Linda Johnston Murosako 1995. 4to. 40 pp unpaginated. printed on Hammermill color Copy Paper with numerous linoleum stamp plates printed using Daniel Smith Relief ink printed on Masa Paper folded origami kite and sample string tipped-in from traditional Japanese cotton flying line. Punch sewn softcovers of Tairei paper flyleaves of Kinwashi Paper sewn with kite line and decorated with hand-shaped bamboo w/ Daphne paper envelope printed labels on both NF/NF signed on colophon by artist/author. First edition stated of this very scarce artist’s book presented by the Drachen Foundation to promote and increase the knowledge and appreciate of Japanese kites and kitemaking techniques. Murosako is well-known within the kite community for her beautiful kites using bamboo and varieties of handmade papers made into startling paper shapes often with insect wing bettle shell or vegetable motifs. No copies located in Worldcat. Linda Johnston Murosako, paperback
