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182354605London: Rodwell & Martin 1823. 4to. Unpaginated. Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Boards rubbed with wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Early bookplate to front pastedown. Stain to lower edge of some leaves. Scattered foxing and light staining to page edges. Engraved title-page with vignette of 'Crater of mount Etna.' Sixty full-page engravings of scenes of Sicily with tissue-guards. Final vignette of 'Sicilian Cottage.' Plates complete. List of plates bound in. Description of plates in English with text in French on verso. Good margins. Binding firm. In Good to VG condition. . Good. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1823. Rodwell & Martin 1823 unknown
191253705Association Island Henderson Harbor NY: N.E.L.A. General Electric Corporation 1912. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 10.75 in. 40 leaves unnumbered. composed of thick brown paper stock w/ Arts & Crafts motif borders & decorations in mauve. With 101 tipped-in original silver gelatin sepia-tinted photographs ranging in size from 2 in. rounds to 5.5 x 9.95 in. and all are mounted into the albums most with printed text captions. Original brown half-suede over brown softcovers yapp edges stamped gilt N.E.L.A. logo and title on front cover stamped in gilt minor edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar. First edition of this lavishly produced souvenir album filled with original photographs of the antics by participants for the National Electric Lamp Association at their Camp National. Association Island in Henderson Harbor NY was purchased in 1905 from private owners and renamed. This lavishly appointed island contained a town hall dining hall with full staff of waitresses and housekeepers a hospital tent swimming pool areas for tents recreational trap shooting baseball diamonds theatre and marina for sport boating. These photos vividly portray how these mid-summer retreats were filled with conferences but also devoted to the executives reliving the joys of the summer camp retreats of the well-to-do childhoods during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They created pennants went sport fishing played in tennis tournaments croquet matches poker games baseball games parades costume parties minstrel shows plays parties and more. These Camp National events continued on a more subdued scale after General Electric acquired N.E.L.A. and began using Association Island as a corporate retreat and training center for GE executives customers and employees through the end of the 1950s. The Elfun Society General Electric’s famed think-tank was founded in 1928 on the Island and named in honor of the historic elm tree depicted in the decorative borders. General Electric’s use of Association Island even served as the basis for Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel Player Piano in 1952 a satire of the antics of engineers and managers of a large unnamed corporation on their annual retreat. The National Electric Lamp Association was founded at the end of the 19th century during a great deal of turmoil in the incandescent lamp industry and a number of small lamp manufacturers needed to pool their resources in order to compete with General Electric. Ironically Franklin Terry Burton & Henry Tremaine John & Robert Crouse founded the Company in 1901 with 75% of the needed capital from GE who was to remain a silent partner. A number of the small companies such as Sterling Electric The Economy Electric Co. and many others were able to use the labs set up by N.E.L.A. and within a few years had gained nearly 50% of the total lamp production in the United States. However in 1911 the U.S. Government brought an anti-trust suit against the N.E.L.A. and GE exercised their option to buy the remaining 25% and they officially all became part of General Electric forming the National Quality Lamp Division. See: Association Island’s History 2015; Nela Park: A brief early history -- Terry Management Style and Incandescent Lamp Advances. N.E.L.A., General Electric Corporation, paperback
2016CBS-9781482222500Taylor & Francis Np ExclusiveCbs 2016. New. Taylor & Francis Np Exclusive(Cbs) unknown
2016CBS-9781482222500Taylor & Francis Np ExclusiveCbs 2016. New. Taylor & Francis Np Exclusive(Cbs) unknown
61670aafRoma, (Antonio de Rossi, Stamperia di Domenico de Rossi), 1729, in-folio, 3 engr. titles + 115 plates (of 116, lacks plate 35), untrimmed, small red school-library stamp on t.p. ‘Ecole Sainte Genevieve B.D.J.’, half calf binding on raised bands, gilt bands, two grey title labels on spine with gilt lettering, some rubbing to edges, topedge gilt, corners slightly bumped. Still a very good copy.
1819ZB626382NY 1918-1932. mostly quartos mostly bound some covers retained illustrated ex library else text clean & bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. NY unknown
Due voll. In -8°, pp. (8), 508; (4), 620 e 15 tavv. ripiegate (10 alla fine del primo, 5 alla fine del secondo volume); mezza pergamena coeva con fregi, tasselli e titoli al dorso. Prima edizione francese del trattato di Herschel, di notevole importanza teorica e fra l’altro opera che si può considerare basilare per lo sviluppo della fotografia moderna. Proprio a Herschel - che nel 1839 avrebbe messo a punto un procedimento fotografico di stampa su carta sensibile, si deve la coniazione dei termini “photography”, “positive” e “negative” in rapporto a questa tecnica. Il secondo volume include un “Supplement...” firmato Quetelet. Si tratta della prima edizione in volume di quest’opera, che in inglese venne pubblicata come voce dell’“Enciclopaedia Metropolitana” (in quella versione le tavole erano 14 anziché 15) First french edition of the Herschel work, a very important theoric essay also of big relevance for the development of modern photography. To this very author we owe the first use of terms like “photography”, “positive” and “negative” (related to that). The second volume includes a “Supplement…” signed by Quetelet. It’s the first edition in volume of this work, published in english into the “Enciclopaedia Metropolitana” (in that version the tables were 14 instead of 15).
80 pages. Includes several pages of great illustrations of the musicians. Songs include: Turn to Stone; It's Over; Sweet Talkin' Woman; Across the Border; Night in the City; Starlight; Jungle; Believe Me Now; Steppin' OUt; Standin' in the Rain; Big Wheels; Summer and Lightning; Mr. Blue Sky; Sweet is the Night; The Whale; Birmingham Blues; Wild West Hero. A very heavily-worn copy. Unmarked. All pages present but some loose. What this copy lacks in condition it more than makes up for in magical musical content from the late 1970s. Guaranteed to take you back in time! Book
165 pages. An anonymous biography of a woman who made her husbad a success. "Until you have read this you cannot guess the number and variety of things that a woman can do, often without expense, to promote her husband's business." - from dust jacket. Bright, happy, constructive, suggestive reading for any wife, young or old, new to the game or experienced in it. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
Pages 293-332 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: "Harbour Court" - The Residence of Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Newport, R.I.; Bernard Palissy, The Famous French Potter and His Works; "Crystal Brook" - A Co-operative Colony on the shores of Long Island Sound near Port Jefferson; Decorations and Furnishings for the Home - VI - The Arrangement and Hanging of Pictures; Some Notable Garages; Flowers as Dessert; Some Novel French Chimney Pots; "A Nook in a Formal Garden" (photo); Furniture for the Home - Garden Furniture; The Handicraftsman - Methods of Beautifying the Common Gas Light; Making Plumes Out of Crepe Paper; Imitation Marble; The Modern House; Garden Notes; The Heliotrope as a bedding Plant; Vegetable Fountains; Illustrated ad for the Hotel Seneca in Rochester, NY; Elaborate one-page photo-illustrated ad for Darlington, the magnificent country estate of the late George Crocker which is now for sale; Illustrated ad for Elco Motor Boats - the Elco Gasoline Express Launch, the Electric Launch and the Elco Cruiser; L. Wolff Mfg. ad features photo of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel; Back cover ad for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Presents the proud history of Innisfail, Alberta and district, accompanied by a substantial compilation of local family histories. 501 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Red front board handsomely decorated in gilt. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this treasured local history and genealogical reference. Krotki [2e] 523, Strathern 2933, Book
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. 42, [2] one-sided pages. Black and white reproductions of photos, maps, and many fascinating wartime documents. Undated but appears to be circa 1989. "I compliment you on your vivid account of your capture and escape at Verrieres Ridge. It is fascinating and very well expressed. I wouldn't suggest you change a word." - Col. C.C.I. Merritt V.C. Author's address ink stamped inside back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. A sound copy of this important and dramatic personal WWII account. Book
64 pages. Features: This issue features, for the first time, cover art by James Hill of Hamilton, featuring an actual scene of a snow sleigh being painted in Dundas, Ontario during a light snow; Great colour ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd. inside front cover features their equipment mining uranium ore ungerground; Household Finance ad features photo of Mr. S.B. Kelly, Manager of the Richmond St., London, Ontario office; One-page two-colour ad for Thor household appliances; Nothing Sacred About the Two-Party System (Editorial); Column on B.C.'s Socred government; Nice colour ad for Canadian General Electric features six of their clocks; Canada's best-loved Governor-General, Lord Alexander, becomes Defense Minister of Great Britain - article with many photos; Benny's Happy Family - nearly four hundred veterans and their wives, and fourteen hundred children live at Benny Farm, a huge apartment development in Montreal's suburb of Notre Dame de Grace - article with five photos; Keep Away from Laura - fiction by Morley Callaghan; The Mysterious Kingdom of the Saguenay - photo-illustrated article (including photo of Madame Gunder Olsen sitting outside her home; How Mackenzie King Won His Greatest Gamble - the fantastic events of 1926 showed him as a true political genius; They're Looting Our History - American collectors and tourists armed with shovels are carting away the story of Canada's dim past from Manitoulin Island - article with photos; When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's - great photo-illustrated article on this important Canadian department store merger; Why the Braden's Don't Come Home - Photo-illustrated article on Bernie and Barbara Braden, once of Vancouver, who now have jobs in British TV, radio, stage and movies; Colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad features puffing majorette; Colour centrefold ad for Westinghouse home appliances; Prest-O-Lite ad features photo of Boston Bruin Milt Schmidt in action; Interesting illustrated ad for film "Androcles and the Lion" with heading "Barbaric revelry to fire the senses of the world... in the story of history's most sin-swept era!"; Nice colour ad for Aylmer Golden Corn; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs features boy throwing snowball; Uncommon Stelco ad features photos of their new 673-foot ore unloading bridge at Hamilton, their new blast furnace at Hamilton Works, and their new Open Hearth Furnace at Hamilton; Nice two-page Buick ad; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A high-quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
26028Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault libraire rue de la Harpe no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs no. 33 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo 165 x 105 mm original pink paper-covered boards printed in black the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe lower board with publisher's advertisements spine lettered in black; front pastedown with original ownership inscription of Antoine Kintz clearly a young scholar 3 1 blank 92 pp with seven lithographic folding maps including a mappe-monde in two hemispheres France and its regions and Palestine; a small marginal stain at top edges of last twenty or so leaves otherwise the contents are immaculate and the boards fresh and unrubbed; an exceptional copy. The first edition of Strasbourg geographer Jean-Frédéric Lamp's work for students Abrégé de Géographie pour les Écoles was published in 1828. The third edition appears virtually unrevised and begins with a short introduction to geography and an explanation of key terms and concepts before covering individual countries and regions. Europe is discussed first the greater part of the text is devoted to France then Asia Africa Palestine and North and Central America; a section titled 'Australie' pp 82-4 deals with Oceania providing brief summaries of the physical geography and facts relevant to European discovery for each region. OCLC locates no copies of the third edition. hardcover
1843149222London: William Nicol Shakspeare Press 1843. with the Muster Rolls from the first formation of the Regiment MDCCLXXIX to the relodgement of the Standards in the Tower MDCCCXXIX. Pp. iivi280last blank108Rollxx frontispiece and 6 coloured lithographed plates 2 coloured plans 2 black & white engravings one heavily foxed all with tissue guards Muster Roll appendix; tan cloth lettered and decorated in gilt & blind the backstrip and hinges expertly reinforced edges of boards lightly worn with slight fraying at fore-corners; uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown some light foxing; William Nicol Shakespeare Press/Wright London 1843. First edition. White p. 198. William Nicol, Shakspeare Press unknown
197766040CBBremgarten-Bern, Schwarz-Weiss-Verlag, 1977. 4°. 32 x 33 cm. [40] Blatt. Gebundener Original-Pappband. [5 Warenabbildungen]
181849072Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 225-336. (The entire issues offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287.
180143492Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Without wrappers as published in ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 7, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin.
186743497Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1867. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 99. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25.
181849072Paris Crochard 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 9 Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate pp. 225-336. The entire issues offered. Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth."In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light the paper offered.if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed."Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I pp. 108-9. </em> unknown
180143492Halle Rengerschen Buchhandlung 1801. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 7 Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered =Heft 4. Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Ritter's announcement of his discovery of ultraviolet light in a halfpage letter addressed to Gilbert's Annalen. With that discovery it became clear that visible light represents no more than a fraction of a continous spectrum.A year earlier in 1800 William Herschel discovered infrared light. This was the first time that a form of light beyond visible light had been detected. After hearing about Herschel's discovery of an invisible form of light beyond the red portion of the spectrum Ritter decided to conduct experiments to determine if invisible light existed beyond the violet end of the spectrum as well. He had heard that blue light caused a greater reaction in silver chloride than red light did. Ritter decided to measure the rate at which silver chloride reacted to the different colors of light. He directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum. He then placed silver chloride in each color of the spectrum and found that it showed little change in the red part of the spectrum but darkened toward the violet end of the spectrum. Johann Ritter then decided to place silver chloride in the area just beyond the violet end of the spectrum in a region where no sunlight was visible. To his amazement this region showed the most intense reaction of all. This showed for the first time that an invisible form of light existed beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum. This new type of light which Ritter called Chemical Rays later became known as ultraviolet light or ultraviolet radiation the word ultra means beyond. - Parkinson Breakthroughs: 1801 P. </em> unknown
186743497Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1867. Contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 99. Entire volume offered. 2X652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper the results of which Maxwell later used as a crucial support for his electromagnetical theory of light.".The velocity of light c were measured by W. Weber and R. Kohlrausch in 1855 the paper offered. They used an electrometer to determine the charge of a condnsor in electrostatic units and a ballistic galvanometer to measure the same charge in electrodynamic units. The resulting value for c was in good agreement with that obtained by Fizeau in 1849 and Maxwell accordingly felt entitled to identify light and electromagnetic vibrations. This conclusion recalls Newton's identification of gravity with universal attraction: it was not only because they obeyed the same formal law but also because both led to the same mathematical results that Newton saw fit to combine them."Taton Réne in "History of Sciencein The Nineteenth Century" p. 163. </em> hardcover
14 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood and (some later volumes) Robert Papp. The sequence comprises: A Close Run Thing (1999); The Nizam's Daughters (2000); A Regimental Affair (2001); A Call to Arms (2002); The Sabre's Edge (2003); Rumours of War (2004); An Act of Courage (2005); Company of Spears (2006); Man of War (2007); Warrior (2008); On His Majesty's Service (2011); Words of Command (2015); The Passage to India (2018); The Tigress of Mysore (2020). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
189184315Alphonse Picard, Libraire-éditeur, impr. Philippe Mouillot, Paris 1891 Fort in-folio. Reliure postérieure pleine toile écrue, couvertures et dos conservée, 3 ff.-VI-702 pp.-1ff, 500 gravures dans le texte et 80 grandes planches hors texte imprimées en deux teintes. Très bon exemplaire.
19777651080 pages with folding front cover and musical notation and chords for the album Published by United Artists Music Publishing Group paperback
