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1886798751886. ELECTRICITY REPORT OF THE ELECTRICAL CONFERENCE AT PHILADELPHIA IN SEPTEMBER 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office 1886. 183 pp. 8vo. red pebbled cloth with gilt cover lettering. Ex-library with usual markings minor shelfwear to heel of spine. Light soil to spine and boards. Proceedings of the National Conference of Electricians at the International Electrical Exhibition. B/w diagrams. unknown books
188443325London 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning/blue 'x' in lower left margin of page 1. 4 adverts 34 2 adverts pp. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>Abel's Address to the Society concerns the current status of large scale application of electrical lighting. hardcover books
188443312London 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning. 2 adverts 685 - 716 2 adverts pp. Text double column. Probert's article pp. 703 - 711. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
188643327London 1886. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning and bit of foxing. iv 55 - 70 v - viii pp. Text double column. Webber's article pp. 55 - 66. Frontis. Article ilustrated with 6 figures. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
188443328London 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning. 2 adverts 319 - 362 2 adverts pp. Text double column. Thompson's article pp. 319 - 344. Fold-out table of 'The Electric Light Companies' follows page 334. Adverts illustrated with cuts. Article illustrated with 34 intratextual figures. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
185323891New York: George P. Putnam 1853. 1st edition. Presentation copy from the author. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG sq & tight/old price sticker to preliminary front blank. xvi 191 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. <br/><br/>Not in the Ronalds' collection. George P. Putnam hardcover books
1896JC126001896. Ephemera. Very Good. Single leaf tan paper printed and illustrated an image of DeLeon's act in black ink on the recto only 355x165mm; with cloth backing. Some flattened creases from folding; a little light wrinkling; faint inkstamp. Displays nicely. <br/><br/>DeLeon was known for walking on a bare cable charged with electricity 50 feet in mid-air a continuous current "passing through his body. beautifully illuminated by the deadly fluid." He "makes an Arc Lamp of himself by holding a carbon in each hand and thus forming a lamp of 2000 Candle power." Step right up. unknown books
1850408771850. <p>Rare 19th Century American Electricity Broadside</p> <p>Electricity Wonderful experiments! At the Liberty Hall Groton this evening Feb. 19 inst. Dr. Fisk begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this place that he will give one night of pleasing and instructive amusement . . . Broadside. Woodcut illustrations. N.p.: Samuel B. Hall n.d. ca. 1850. 627 x 225 mm. Small portion of one corner torn not affecting text some creasing minor stains but very good.</p> <p>Rare nineteenth-century American broadside advertising Dr. Fisk's traveling show offering a "pleasing and instructive" demonstration of the many and varied uses of electricity. Among the marvels promised were "a splendid railway engine . . . driven by electricity 200 miles per hour" "electro-magnetic engines of immense power . . . driving a variety of useful machines" and "cannons and fireworks . . . fired by electricity." The broadside also proclaims that "a medical galvanizing machine will be at work for the benefit of all" which Dr. Fisk whom we have not been able to identify would use to make "chickens . . . fly without heads" and "sheep that have been dead some time . . . jump and run about." The broadside has blank spaces for inserting the place and date of Dr. Fisk's performance which have been filled in with the words "Liberty Hall Groton Connecticut" and "Feb. 19" in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand. </p> . unknown books