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187142271New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. A very good copy clean and bright with tear along inner margin of first leaf thin dampstain on lower margin. 15-30 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead article: Mammoth Cylinder Lithographic Machine with large engraving of the Hughes & Kimber's Monster Cylinder Lithographic Machine by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900. Contents: Improvements in Brick Machines and Brick Molds; Improvements in Water Wheels; Perpetual Motion; Implement for Grinding Valves; Improved Self-locking Stove-leg; Chubbuck's Patent Piston and Packing; Booton's Shot case and Distributor; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142277New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. Clean and bright with faint dampstain to one corner a very good copy. 111-126 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead articles: Walker & Co.'s Water Grate and Steam Generator with large engraving; How Eyes are Made. Contents: Exercising Club; Knapp's Fluting and Flat Iron; Perpetual Motion; American Gas Wells; Improved Ore Washer; Patent Weatherboard Bracket; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142278New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. Clean and bright with small light dampstain to inner margin; a very good copy. 127-142 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead articles: Lenz's Improved Extension Table with two engravings the larger by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900; Elastic Metallic Rocking Chair. Contents: Improvement in Printers Quoins; Pyrometer; Perpetual Motion; W. Mattieu Williams on the Besemer Process; Improved Section Tubular Steam Boiler; Hand Sewing Machine; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142272New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. A very good copy clean and bright with thin dampstain on lower margin. 31-46 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead article: Improved Cotton Press with with large engraving of the Booton's Cotton Press by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900. Contents: Stow's Non-corroding Water and Gas Pipe; Washing Machine; Perpetual Motion; Anti-Snoring Device; Improved Hitching Post; Paint-Pot Holder; Boring Segment of Hollow Cylindrical Ring; Life-Preserver for Hotels and other Lofty Buildings; Can a Perpendicular be obtained by means of the Plumb Line; How to Estimate the Power of a Stream; Improved Steam Gage; Merriman's Improved Water-proof Dress and Life Preserver; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142279New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. A very good copy clean and bright with small light dampstain to inner margin center crease from fold. 143-158 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead articles: Collier & Mastermn's Improved Balanced Slide Valve; with two engravings; Curious Case of Asymmetry; Speaking and Singing without a Tongue; Measuring Faucet; Kitchen Boilers. Contents: Perpetual Motion; Improvements in Casting Pulleys and Grooved Rolls; Infantile Washing Machine; Improved Grate Bar; Improved Horse-power Hayfork; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142274New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. Clean and bright with thin dampstain on lower margin a very good copy. 63-78 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead article: Improved Vertical Portable Engine with large engraving of the Griffith & Wedge Vertical Portable Engine by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900. Contents: Combined Tool; Cast Iron Chimney; Automatic Toy; Improved Pliers; Perpetual Motion; Improvement in Car Brakes; Combined Section Boiler and Marker; Improved Gate; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142276New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. Clean and bright with faint dampstain to one corner a very good copy. 95-110 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead articles with engraving of Cochrane's Mariner's Sound Indicator; Purifying Gas and Soap Limes; Something about Skates. Contents: Device for Closing Ruptures in Fire Hose; Perpetual Motion; Improved Cistern Filter; Pruning Shears; Boring Out Curved Cylinders; A New Piston; Improved Dovetailing Machine; Improved Coal Ash Sifter; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142283New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. A very good copy faint dampstain to upper corner light crease from middle fold. 207-222 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead articles: Improved Horizontal Steam Engine; with large engraving of Cooper & Co's Stationary Stream Engine by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900. Potato Diggers. Contents: The "Luna" Moth; Improved Screw Wrench; Egg Tongs; Device for Cleaning Traps in Soil Pipes; Combined Pruning Hook and Saw; Wooden Railroads; Krupp's Dovetailing Machine; Improved Door Step; Johnson's Adjusting Plumb Level; Improved Method of Attaching Knobs to Screws;; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
187142273New York: Munn & Co. 1871. First edition. Paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. A very good copy clean and bright with thin dampstain on lower margin. 47-62 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings and drawings. 15 3/4" x 11". Folio. Lead article: Watts and Phelps' Variable Cut-off with three engravings the largest by R. Ten Eyck a New York engraver working between 1860 and 1900. Contents: French Ironing Table; Improved Door Guard; Perpetual Motion; Intrenching Tool; Post-Hole Borer; Shoemaker's Tool; Improved Sewing Machine Cover; Improved Method of Attaching and Lubricating car wheels; all with engravings; plus other articles. Munn & Co. unknown books
183255449Boston: J. E. Hinckley and Co 1832. First edition 8vo pp. 87 1; uncut and stitched as issued; tables in the text; without the folding map and lithograph plan as called for in some OCLC listings; contemporary annotations at the back in Acts of Incorporation; very good. Includes a geological memoir of the area between Massachusetts and Narragansett Bays. American Imprints 11443. <br/><br/> J. E. Hinckley and Co unknown books
1981150957Cardiff: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1981. Hardcover. VG- Slipcase has borne the brunt of age with slight soiling wear and tape marks; the title and author have been written on the slipcase spine; the book itself is in beautiful condition. Crimson cloth gilt letters on spine gilt dragon on front cover white & color illus. dust jacket maps on flyleaves 379 pp. BW & color illus. 2 fold-outs; in plain brown cardboard slipcase/box. Heavy 6 pounds and will require extra postage. One single volume of a multi-volume set that details all of the older structures found in Glamorgan a southern county in Wales. "Herein described are the greater houses built between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Among the better known buildings included is the manor house Beaupre with its famous early Renaissance porch and the great Orangery at Margam. The contents comprise introduction distribution maps full desciptions comprehensive drawings and plates eight in colour. The main inventory arranged in a historical and typological order should make the historical evolution of building types described easy to grasp." dj Many elevations and floor plans are included in the drawings. Quite nice. Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover books
1955840171955. WALES. CYLCHGRAWN CYMDEITHAS HANES A CHOFNODION SIR FEIRIONNYDD/JOURNAL OF MERIONETH HISTORICAL AND RECORD SOCIETY VOLUME II NUMBER 3 1955. n.p. Merioneth Historical and Record Society 1955. pp. 169 - 248. 8vo. blue wrappers printed in black. B/w illustrations. One article "Bedwenni Llandderfel" is in Welsh; the rest are in English. Inlcudes the papers "Merioneth in the Dark Ages" "Castell Carndochan" "The Romance of the Chalice and Paten of Cymer Abbey" "Llanbedr ar Artro" "A Merioneth Wage Assessment for 1601" "Camden Vaughan and Lhwyd and Merionethshire" "The Will of Dr. John Ellis Dogelley" and "Pant Glas: A Communitarian Experiment in Merionethshire." Very good. unknown books
1860138876Boston: Bee Printing Company 1860. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-4 5-7 8 9 10-52 note: first leaf is a blank original cream wrappers printed in black. First edition. Includes an early printing of a Oliver Wendell Holmes poem "International Ode -- 'Our Fathers' Land'" pages 19-20. The centerpiece of the book is an extremely detailed description of the ball in honor or the prince who wore what who danced with the prince etc. also an anonymous poem of nine stanzas "The Prince's Welcome" on page 6. Currier & Tilton p. 330. This printing not noted by BAL. Gift inscription on page 6 reads: "1870 April 26. Gift of Wm. Sumner Appleton of Boston. H. U. 1860" Spine replaced some general soiling to wrappers small stain on rear wrapper generally a very good copy. In a buckram folding case with inner marbled paper and small leather spine label. #138876 Bee Printing Company unknown books
187827939208 Broadway Cor. Fulton St. New York: Department of Docks Evening Post Steam Presses 1878. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 80 pages plus 3 plates two of which are folding. 8vo 5 3/4 x 9 inches. Printed tan wrappers string stitched. Additionally three stab holes at spine probably was in a bound volume at some point. Bright and clean internally inked "10" upper right front wrapper. Wraps. The first 28 pages are financial in nature and include transactions from May 1st 1876 through April 30th 1877. The next section is the report of the Engineer-in-chief who reports on several projects including the New Pier No. 1. N.R. Canal and King Street sections and other areas. The folding plates depict a section and of a bulk head wall King St. section. Â The last plate is an isometrical sketch of concrete blocks showing binding frames. The following section is again financials showing what tasks were accomplished and then a report of the Treasurer. Â A useful document for those interested in Dock related projects in NYC during this time period. [ Department of Docks ] Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
1914109329New York: The Century Co. 1914. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi 1-2 3-329 330: blank original pictorial blue-gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First edition. The solution of the mystery hinges on Theosophical ideas and the transfer of a personality from one body to another. Published later in the UK as THE THIRTY DAYS Cassell 1915. Reginald 14771. Hubin 1994 p. 829. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978. Touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips slight spine lean a clean tight very good copy with bright and clean binding. An uncommon book. #109329 The Century Co. unknown books
194415543New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gertrude Elliott. A crisp impressive copy of the 1944 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in its pictorial laminate boards. And in a bright price-intact $1.50 Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto wonderfully illustrated thruout in rich color by Gertrude Elliott. <br/><br/> Simon and Schuster hardcover books
195322461London: Golden Cockerel Press. 1953. Hardcover. #78 of 300. Hardcover showing slight dampstaining to front and rear boards. Interior free end papers are waterstained with stain showing on a few of the interior pages too. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1896511251896. Australia. New South Wales. Leibius G.H. and R.R. Garran Editors. Index of Cases Judicially Noticed in the Courts of New South Wales and On Appeal Therefrom 1825-1895. Being a List of all Cases Cited in Judgements. The Supreme Court Reports Knox's Reports Supreme Court Reports New series New South Wales Law Reports Tarleton's Term Reports Weekly Notes and Bankruptcy Cases 1862-1895 And in the Appendices to Stephen's Supplement Wilkinsons's Magistrate Foster's District Court Practice Browning's Municipalities Act And Salusbury's Bankruptcy Acts. With an Appendix of Cases Judicially Noticed in Legge's Selection of Supreme Court Cases 1825-1862. Sydney: Hayes Brothers 1896. iv 388 pp. Octavo 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Original cloth blind frames to boards gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear with some rubbing to extremities fading to spine internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small stamp to title page. $150. Only edition. OCLC locates 1 copy. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:32. unknown books
200446707London: Harleian Society 2004. Hardcover. Very good. xlviii 351pp; 352-766pp. Two voluumes both very good in publisher's red cloth. <br/><br/> Harleian Society hardcover books
192739721Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co. 1927. 4to. 129 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />With a signed etching and a signed lithograph by Wales. Each image includes a descriptive paragraph. Those relating to the lithographed vessels are quite a bit longer. Laid in is a copy of Louis A. Holman's monograph done for Goodspeed entitled "George C. Wales Etcher of the Sea." Bos. 1922. 12 mo 30 pp. b/w ills. With a checklist of Wales' etchings. A few cover spots water mark on backstrip. Internally clean. Charles E. Goodspeed & Co. books
197132747Cambridge MA: Harvard University 1971. First Edition. 4to pp. 488. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. A nice copy in slightly soiled and chipped dj. Organized into five categories: subsistence shelter clothing ritual and recreation this owrk also discusses broader issues of culture change obsolescence differential acculturation and cultural homogeneity. Harvard University unknown books
1893279023Geological Survey of England and Wales 1893. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. 15" x 22 1/2". Stamp on left edge stating "Old Series" and "Drawer 17". Original stamp of the Geological Survey of England and Wales present at the top of the page.<br/><br/> Gorgeous hand-colored geological map of the Lake District in Cumbria United Kingdom showing as far west as Ullswater Lake as far east as Appleby north to Penrith and south to Kendal. A color-coded key to the left and right of the map show the different types of rocks present in the region. Surface scuffs and wear otherwise good. Ordnance Survey OS is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain. It is one of the world's largest producers of maps and was founded in 1791.<br/><br/> Geological Survey of England and Wales unknown books
1898317629London: Macmillan 1898. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. xiv 474pp. 8vo. Three quarters modern mottled calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. xiv 474pp. 8vo. Macmillan unknown books
183933199London: Printed for Leigh and Son 1839. Fourth edition with considerable Additions and improvements. Frontispiece large folding map for the guide hinged with tape to front pastedown 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches partially handcolored. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth with panel reading "Leigh's Guide to Wales and Monmouthshire" showing Conway Castle laid down on upper cover. Cloth faded with some browning and rubbing upper joint cracked some tears in cloth waterstaining in gutter at front some marginal staining and light browning else very good with the 1840 signature of Charles Marin on the endpaper. Fourth edition with considerable Additions and improvements. Frontispiece large folding map for the guide hinged with tape to front pastedown 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches partially handcolored. 1 vols. 8vo. "Ladies of Llangollen" Walking Tours. Among the notables described are the "Ladies of Llangollen" Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby. Printed for Leigh and Son unknown books
171347274London: Printed for J. Baker at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row 1713. 1st printing ESTC N23541. Disbound with binding remnants along spine. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Very Good. 10 28 pp. Lacks half-title leaf. "Price 6d." at base of t.p. T.p. ornamental cut. 7" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Printed for J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row unknown books
