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16 pages. Contents: High Waist Trained Suit - cover illustration; Prospectus of Womanhood; Manners upon the road; Appeal to Amercan Women; New York Fashions - wrappings, materials, trimmings, models and prices; Personal; Carved Walnut Cradle; Toilette Cushion with Tatted Cover; Foot-Stool with Crochet Cover; Borders for Table Covers, Sofa Pillows, etc.; Ladies' and children's winter dresses; Business Women; Nelly's Party; The Empress at Chiselhurst; Feminine Profitable Labor; Sayings and Doings; Awesome full-page illustration of child handing coin from her window to a street child - "God Will Reward You"; Full-page illustration "A Morning Reception", by W.L. Sheppard; Agatha's Fortune - a story of newspapers; The Cryptogram - continued; Nice full-page illustration entitled "On the Promenade at Scarborough, England"; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustration entitled "Far Away"; How Women Become Morbid; Verbal Fastidiousness; New York Fashions - dress-making, fall goods, silks, woolens, cloakings, driving and breakfast jackets, embroidery, fall bonnets; Personal; Dress-making - two-pages of text, illustrations and diagrams cover taking the measure, increasing or diminishing the pattern, making the waist and skirt, making trimmings, methods of looping, sewing seams in heavy woolen materials; Bound to John Company - continued; Outwitted; Great humourous centerfold illustrations entitled "Husband Hunting Sketches"; Tolerance; Evening Parties; The Derby Day; Sola - continued; Toleration of women; Paris gossip; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: Canada's Modern Heritage - Time to Act; The Economuseum - sharing know-how to ensure its preservation; Beacon on Lake Erie - the Coast Guard's Point Abino lighthouse; Modern Classics - Care with 20th-Century Materials; Canadian Terminals on the Underground Railroad; Discreet Heritage - An Architectural Endeavour in Old Montreal - the Zone Building. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Flowers of the Fields and Florists - Procuring Ikebana Materials; Face to Face - in the father's footsteps - the legacy of the Ohara School; Floral Focus - Eulalia; Ikebana Portfolio - gorgeous colour photos; Dolls for All Seasons - Toso dolls of Toshiko Ichihashi; Lacquer Times Three. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: "Stopped at the Border - Plant Quarantines"; Description of Materials available; and more Book
Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Roofs and Roofing Materials; A prewar puzzling metal dollhouse #58; Chateau la Chaille; Marilyn Munroe; The Alchemy of Pippin Hill; Minicruising '91; The New Angela Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum; Christmas All Year Round II - a Pioneer Christmas; Easter Baskets; A Bachelor's chest; Make Your Beds; A Maple Sugaring Box; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
24 pages. Features: The Problem of Raising Sanctions Against Italy; The Kind of Insurance Which is Untertaken at Lloyd's (of London); The Prejudice Against Finger-Printing; How Governor Landon Got His Nomination; Why the Nations of the World Should Form a Trading Club; "An International Policeman Somewhare in the Background"; Access to Raw Materials; "My 60 Years In the Law" - by a Judge's Clerk Mr. F.W. Ashley; The Small Boy At Any School Sports On Any Saturday Afternoon; "Behind the Real Smile in Japan" - Mr. E.K. Venables; Miss V. Sackville-West Discusses Joan of Arc's Visions; Dr. Rufus Jones on Psychology and Religion; Mrs. Elinor Glyn and Her Allegory of Gold & Silver; The Spirit of Sussex Downs; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Center page holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Advanced materials and the economy; Materials for information and communication; Materials for aerospace; Materials for ground transportation; Materials for energy utilization; Materials for medicine; The science of materials; Electronic and Magnetic materials; Photonic materials; Advanced metals; Advanced ceramics; Advanced polymers; Composites. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
172 pages. Features: Smart weapons in naval warfare; vibrations of the atomic nucleus; microbodies in the living cell; modern pork production; new inorganic materials; computer-intensive methods in statistics; the social influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle; sudden cardiac death - a problem in topology; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
144 pages. Contents: Stopping the production of fissile materials for weapons; Helioseismology; Oligosaccharins; The Compartmental organization of the golgi apparatus; Bimetallic catalysts; A Web-Building Jumping Spider; Slips of the Tongue; Yellow Rain (it was honeybee feces, not chemical warfare); Nostalgic ads, and more. Small initials atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. Magazine
Features: Wide-beam Max concept extended by Stena; Effective purchasing with IT systems; New temporary surface-protection materials; Safety technology; Japan; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Photos: Materials being unloaded at Anzio bridgehead; Landing craft No. 349 is wrecked off the Italian coast; Berlin by daylight - as seen by American bombers; new pictures from the Russian front; stocking up the invasion supplies; and much more. Above-average wear to covers, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Is Belgium's Deliverance Near? - events likely to follow on the capture of the Ridges - article by Lovat Fraser; Views on the road of victory over Vimy Ridge - 2 photos; Italian Boats that went by mountain ways; Under German fire in Aisne and Champagne; Canadians utilizing the 'tump line' for carrying heavy materials to the front line; Photos of enemy ingenuity i.e. a phony hollow-tree observation post; The Victory of the Flanders Ridges - how British troops won their first sight of Bruges - article; Seven 'Somersets' capture Forty-Two Huns; Rise and Fall of the U-Boat - how Germany's blockade of Britain is rendered ineffective; Prowess and pity in Mesopotamia and Palestine; Splendid work of the gunboats on the Tigris; Humour and courage of the 'jocks' - memories and episodes of the fighting on the Western Front; French air messages and hun air murders; Realistic tests of efficiency at Aldershot. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 10 1/4"w x 13 3/4"h. 30 pages. No date shown; circa 1962. Previous owner's name on cover.
50 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Folio, Best Edition, with 100 engraved plates and many hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; attractively bound in black half calf, brown cloth sides, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly scuffed at edges else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Lovely copy of the best edition of this immensely detailed manual, first published in 1857. In this edition several of the plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures, and several new plates added. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 26 pages depicting General Layout and notes, General details, Rail option details, Fabrication details, Materials and construction recommendations, Construction recommendations & Design procedure for both Stress-laminated sawn lumber decks and Stress-laminated glued laminated timber decks with another section on Longitudinal stringer with transverse plank decks. Large oblong format with very detailed architectural drawings created for use by "smaller highway departments with limited engineering staff." Staple-bound. 16 5/8"w x 10 5/8"h.
24x17. 449p. Ilstr. Sellos.
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. 235 pages, color photos throughout, plans, elevations, many projects featured. 8"w x 9"h.
96 pages. Index. Oblong 12" x 9". Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with high-quality black and white photos. Author "shares his vast knowledge acquired by consistently applying himslef to solving the mysteries unique to the guitar... (He) shares in words and photos many of his techniques... Details alternatives so readers can make choices that suit their tastes... A balanced and thought-provoking treatment of the classical guitar." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this handsome work. Book
In folio (45,5×36 cm); (8), 51, (3) p. e 100 tavv. f.t. divise in 4 parti ognuna con i piatti anteriore e posteriore della brossura originale conservati e applicati su brossure protettive recenti. Il tutto è contenuto entro una elegante legatura protettiva foderata in tela e che presente al piatto anteriore il piatto originale dell’opera stampato in nero su tela. Prima rara edizione completa di tutte le sue parti di questa importantissima pubblicazione che riproduce la celeberrima collezione di pizzi (Dentelles) antichi conservati presso il “Musée Royaux des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels a Bruxelles”. Questa prima edizione è rarissima mentre la seconda edizione uscita nel 1912, identica a questa edizione, risulta essere molto meno rara. Opera completa di tutte le sue parti. Overloop fu Membro del Consiglio di Amministrazione del Museo Reale di Storia Naturale del Belgio, del Museo Etnografico della sezione Arti Decorative e direttore dei Musei Reali delle Arti Decorative e Industriali. Fu anche l’organizzatore della sezione scientifica dell’Expo di Bruxelles del 1897. Fu uno dei massimi esperti di pizzi antichi del suo tempo. First edition, very rare.
