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008904Camden NJ: Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America RARE advertising poster circa late 1940s for the RCA model 400 movie projector. 36"h x 24"w. Near Fine slight toning along right edge. Black and white poster with strong visual imagery of this iconic mid-century movie projector. Not found online anywhere. Well suited for framing. Has been stored rolled will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 36"h x 24"w. Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America books
008903Camden NJ: Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America RARE advertising poster circa late 1940s for the RCA model 400 movie projector. 36"h x 24"w. Near Fine 1" closed tear bottom edge small corner crease. Black and white poster with strong visual imagery of this iconic mid-century movie projector. Not found online anywhere. Well suited for framing. Has been stored rolled will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 36"h x 24"w. Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America books
192752112New York: Fairchild Aviation Corporation 1927. 4to. 60 leaves plus interleaves photo-illustrated. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stiff paper binder with printed label on upper cover bound with brads. A few creases and nicks to the binder with a slight bump to the upper tip of the first leaves. A very good copy.<br/><br/>The frontispiece is a folding photographically produced chart; there are five original mounted photographs approximately 4 x 5 inches or the reverse. A very early prospectus or annual report for the purpose of a public stock offering by Fairchild following the founding of the firm in 1924. The frontispiece is a chart of the various divisions of Fairchild and a portion of this report is devoted to the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation which was among the most significant pioneers of aerial photography; several of their planes were designed specifically for use in aerial photography. The photographs illustrate the "K-8" aerial mapping camera and the manufacturing facilities. The various other divisions of Fairchild are enumerated listing: production research sales etc. <br/><br/> Fairchild Aviation Corporation unknown books
38328TRADE CATALOGUE MARQUETERIE CORPORATION. MARQUETERIE INLAYS & OVERLAYS. New York: circa 1920. 4to. Printed wrappers. 22 pages. Scarce trade catalogue with only three copies listed on OCLC in American libraries. An illustrated catalogue of numerous examples of decorative and ornamental overlay inserts in marqueterie sold by this company. The last two pages include 67 mounted wood samples of marquetry inlaid bands and borders. Although there are five blank spaces with stock numbers there is no glue residue to indicate that the samples were ever there. Printed wrappers sunne along the edges. Mounted samples leaves show wear. unknown books
1680632441680. The City Law Corporation of London. Court of Common Council. Lex Londinensis; Or The City Law. Shewing the Powers Customs and Practice of All the Several Courts Belonging to the Famous City of London: viz. The Lord Majors Court. The Orphans Court. The Court of Hustings. The Court of Common Councel. The Court of Aldermen. The Wardmotes. The Courts of Conservacy for the River of Thames. The Court of Conscience. The Sheriffs Court. The Chamberlains Court. Together with Several Acts of Common Councel Very Useful and Necessary to be Known by All Merchants Citizens And Freemen of the Said City. And also A Method for the Ministers Within the Said City to Recover Their Tithes. With a Table to the Whole Book. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Henry Twyford 1680. viii 260 12 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Later three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked retaining spine which has gilt ornaments and later lettering piece endpapers renewed. Some rubbing to boards and extremities corners bumped and lightly worn. Light browning and occasional light foxing to text. Early owner underlining to title page which has some edgewear interior otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $750. Only edition. This book was the first digest of the London's laws and guide to its courts after the revisions of the city laws from 1647 and 1658. A useful work that gathered a great deal of disparate information it is a valuable resource today for students of seventeenth-century London and its legal system. English Short-Title Catalogue R2792. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000042No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 55 x 71 cm. half sheet poster USA. Beverly Michaels Jim Davis Joan Rice Richard Travis Paul Cavanagh dir: Elmo Williams; AFRC. Lurid crime drama about a stripper who lands in jail after violently defending herself. Engaged to a murderer a jail escape is arranged for her by a U.S. State Department agent who wants to find her fiancé and bring him in. Academy Award winning film editor Elmo Williams tried his hand at directing a few lower budget films during the mid 1950s. The Hammer group produced. The film was made in England and released there as WOMEN WITHOUT MEN. Discovered by exploitation film maker Hugo Haas Beverly Michaels was posed for B-movie stardom till he dropped her to promote Cleo Moore. Michaels posters are now highly collectible and this is one of the truly great 50s exploitation posters. Paper-backed NEAR FINE. unknown books
1928181621Northhampton Mass: not identified 1928. Softcover. VG wear to portfolio pages of text booklet are chipped plates are very clean and clear. Missing one plate from Part One Plate 11. Oversized tan cloth portfolio boards 4 page text including title page and list of the plates for part one and part two. Part one consists of 17 plates plate 11 missing. Part two consists of 34 plates complete. "Of this volume twenty five copies have been printed of which this is number 12" - rear of the four page text booklet. Published under the auspices of Smith College and of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Volume 1 consists of Part one: Three Greek Bronzes and Part Two: The Erechtheion. Photographsy by Clarence Kennedy. [not identified] unknown books
19491522British Guiana 1949. Very good. Two volumes. 6633 photographs on 3311pp. Images vary in size most 4.5 x 4.5 or 3.5 x 2.5 inches with some larger. Oblong octavos. Original black paper albums string-tied. Cover of first volume detached wear around edges of covers on each volume. Internally clean and fresh. Some images with light silver mirroring. Captioned throughout. Two photograph albums of the Tikwah gold mine in British Guiana likely compiled by an operative of the company. A Who's Who of British Guiana for 1945-1948 lists Samuel Hirsh Holzman as the mine owner and managing director as well as the vice president of the Mining Association of British Guiana. Gold was discovered in Guiana in the 1880s in the area around the Essequibo River. Crude mining efforts through the next few decades resulted in minimal extraction though there was a renewed effort with technological advancements in mining in the 1940s as shown herein. The present albums document the region as well as the mining camp and its operations much of it with a keen sense of detail. In addition to captions the author has annotated many of the photos in pencil to point out relevant features. For example a photograph captioned "New Winze L. & General View of Mine Looking N.W." has pencil annotations identifying individual buildings such as the Clerk's Quarters and the Tikwah Shaft Building. An image of the foreman's shack and laborers' quarters notes the construction and materials used to build them; roads and rivers used by the company are pictured with complaints about the rough condition as are aerial views of the camp and surrounding area. There are images of the shafts and miners at work; interior shots of the mills and other buildings; and the latter portion of the first volume contains numerous group portraits of the workers and office staff each person identified by name and position. This includes the "Tikwah Ladies" mostly the wives of foremen which shows eight Black women standing together in the mining camp one holding an infant and another holding the hands of a toddler. In addition to images of the camp's operations there are many photographs documenting the difficulties involved with mining in the jungle. A series of images from 1948 shows workmen transporting equipment on the Puruni River. Captions read "Reloading boats to proceed up Puruni ballyhoo in front towed by 'Caroline' to be used at Thomas Island Falls for blasting"; "Pulling 'Caroline' over rapids at mouth"; "Pulling 'Caroline' through part of big falls." All of these images show the difficulty of transporting equipment and supplies in the region with laborers in shorts and loincloths pulling the boat with a rope over difficult terrain. Another series shows the boat caught up on rocks in the river at Kaburi Falls and the workmen endeavoring to dislodge it without capsizing. An altogether fascinating look at life in a mining camp in the jungles of Guiana full of rich detail about those working in the camp and their living environs. unknown books
195444702London: The Patent Office 1954. <p>ENIAC. Patent specification 709407 . . . Electronic numerical integrator and computer. 188pp. 65 diagrams all but 1 folding. London: The Patent Office 26 May 1954. 275 x 191 mm. Library buckram. First edition. </p> <p> First Printed Edition of the Patent for the the Electronic Digital Computer and the first comprehensive description of the first general purpose electronic computer the ENIAC. Because the U.S. version of the patent was not granted until 1964 the English version of the patent with text and illustrations virtually identical to the U.S. patent was published nearly ten years before the U.S. patent. Since no prior patent on an electronic computer existed the ENIAC patent was a general patent which included the first description in legal language of the design and operation of an electronic computer. The description was extremely thorough and illustrated on 65 remarkable diagrams many of which had multiple images. Extremely Rare—this is the first copy we have handled in our five-plus decades in the trade despite our strong interest in the history of computing.</p> <p> The ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer commissioned by the U. S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory was designed by Pres Eckert and John Mauchly and constructed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering during the last years of World War II. The ENIAC came on line in the spring of 1945 just as the war was ending and for the next three years it remained the only operational electronic digital computer in the world. Eckert and Mauchly the machine's creators would go on to found the Electronic Control Company the world's first electronic computer manufacturing firm which produced the first electronic digital computers sold commercially in the United States.</p> <p> The ENIAC was not a stored-program machine but in January 1944 Eckert came up with what he later called his "big idea": "the idea of the stored instruction sequence or program using a single fast memory for both data and instruction with no distinction between registers used for many purposes" quoted in Origins of Cyberspace p. 535. In August 1944 while still working on the ENIAC Eckert and Mauchly proposed the construction of a stored-program machine the EDVAC based on Eckert's new design. In March 1946 just before construction began on the EDVAC Eckert and Mauchly parted ways with the Moore School over a dispute about intellectual property claims retaining patent rights to the ENIAC. The next year Eckert and Mauchly filed for a patent on the ENIAC that included the stored-program concept; this essentially represented "a general patent on the stored-program electronic digital computer" Origins of Cyberspace p. 55. </p> <p> The British patent on the ENIAC was granted on 26 May 1954 nearly a decade before the American patent issued on 4 February 1964. On 19 October 1973 after a six-year legal battle Judge Earl R. Lawson invalidated the ENIAC patent on the grounds that Eckert and Mauchly had derived their ideas from an earlier computer pioneer John Atanasoff who invented a special-purpose electronic computer in the 1930s. This landmark decision placed the concept of the electronic stored-program computer into the public domain with enormous positive consequences for the computer industry.</p> <p>. The Patent Office unknown books
