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1999Scientific-9780851993386Cabi 1999. New. Cabi unknown
1999Scientific-9780851993386Cabi 1999. New. Cabi unknown
1999CBS-9780851993389Cabi Publishing 1999. New. Cabi Publishing unknown
1999CBS-9780851993389Cabi Publishing 1999. New. Cabi Publishing unknown
1934055452NEW YORK: Doubleday Doran & Company 1934. First Printing. Boards. Very Good with no dust jacket. blue boards gilt eagle on cover corners bumped edgear 310 pgs. pages clean binding tight; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Authors A3. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown
1976004021Self 1976. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Tools for the Trades and Crafts A 18th century Pattern Book Edited by Roberts Kenneth Self Pub. 1976 first ISBN 0913602183 Hardbound Facsimile earlier edition in good condition with good dust jacket in mylar. Text is clean and unmarked binding tight some slight tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Board cover is gold embossed and very clean dust jacket is clean and shows little if any signs of wear and is mylar. This is a study of Tools of the Trade for woodworkers and others and how they affected the trade in America. Taken from early English pattern and craft books. The tools are fully illustrated with details of their use for farriers blacksmiths woodworkers coopers shoemakers etc. This is a nice book for the person who likes old tools or who collects them. 222 pages Loaded with B&W illustrations and some charts measurements of various tools. <br/> <br/> Self hardcover
195170185Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1951. First Edition. This copy presumed to be the author's own copy with his bookplate affixed and the bookplate signed by both Kenneth Roberts and Henry Gross. With a number of full page illustrations from photographs throughout. 8vo publisher's original tan cloth the spine with black lettering label gilt and with the dowsing rod in black on the upper cover. viii 310 pp. A very good copy the black of the lettering label and the gilt a bit rubbed otherwise a pleasing clean and tight copy well preserved. FIRST EDITION WITH THE AUTHOR'S OWN BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND HENRY GROSS. In the author's words "This book is an account for future records and for the encouragement of those fortunate persons able to feel within themselves the stirring of the force that moves a dowsing rod of the experiences and the sudden widening of dowsing power." And as Coert du Bois of the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Army Engineers wrote "I couldn't have brought myself to believe the experiments recorded in this book unless before reading it I had traveled through Maine with Henry Gross and Kenneth Roberts and seen Henry's rod tell him all the details of water veins that we would find on hilltops seventy miles away." <br> A pleasing work with fine provenance and association. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
