Paxton, R.A. (ed.)MareMagnum
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Softcover. Printed privately for J.A. Birkbeck of Edinburgh. One of 250 printed. Faded covers with a little minor grubbiness. Square mark left by removal of a label near lower leading corner of page 11. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Contents are clear. AF Used
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked rear board, dusty page edges, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 492pp. The physics and mathematics of every aspect of machines and their properties with a large number of worked examples of questions and answers.
Light foxing to end papers and page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with foxing to edges, slight marking to rear and nick to top of sunned spine.
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to rear and to spine. 573pp. Volume one of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the main group elements. Third Edition.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage, some sunning and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Written by the Curator of the Kodak Museum, this study describes the history of photography in its early days. Very well illustrated.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 262pp. An account of the discovery of 'Ida', the most complete early primate fossil ever found and how this has changed what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked with small tear/crease to to of spine. 119pp. A study of the fascinating development of the London railways and underground lines from the late nineteenth century.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to top of spine and very minor traces of storage. 272pp. This study shows not just the history of ideas that led to deciphering the human genome, but it also shows how the genome itself contains the scars and history of all the generations of life back to the very origins of life more than three billion years ago.
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers, lower page edges and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasint to top of spine and sunning to spine. 376pp. Volume two of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the transition elements. Third Edition.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 11 pages adverts + 167-186pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Living with Nuclear Energy, RWMAC Annual Report plus reviews and parliamentary report.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16 pages adverts + 143-165pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on The Case for Sizewell B, Engineering a Safe PWR, European Nuclear Conference plus reviews and parliamentary report.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 26 pages adverts + 187-208pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Energy : Boon or Birthright, Radioactive Waste Management plus reviews and parliamentary report.
Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 160pp. The history of the so-called Royal Art or alchemy which actually paved the way for modern science and helped to revolutionise aspects of medicine.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 387pp. Authoritative reference guide to the world's leading scientists past and present. Biographical details and clear descriptions of scientific contributions. Explanations of named scientific laws, units and effects. Illustrated to enhance clarity of information.
Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.
Appears in mint unread condition.. 422pp. Science thriller from Paul McAuley.
Small label removal mark to lower front corner. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 153pp. An extensively researched and delightfully illustrated selection of the most unlikely early Edwardian inventions. For example 'Gillet's Appliance for Enabling a Performer to Appear to Stand Upon One Finger' and 'Device for Preventing Self Abuse in Horses'.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 345pp. A well researched account of possibly the greatest engineer of the 19th century. It includes the conflict between Brunel and John Scott Russell over the Great Eastern which venture was directly responsible for Brunel's financial ruin and his early death at age of fifty-two.
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 96pp. The author recalls the heyday of these independant branch line railways along with some real photographic gems of their operations.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 505pp. Novel about aliens from Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, who threaten to destroy the Earth.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 248pp. A study of the administrative, financial and legal aspects of engineering projects as well as the more obvious technical aspects. Management of all of these are necessary for the successful completion of a project. This book provides that expert guidance from a Brunel University team under Richard Stone.
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 351pp. An account of the inventions of Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia in 1857, who went on to work extensively on new electricity devices including transmission without wires, a death-ray, a submarine, a vertical take-off machine, thought photography, anti-gravity, time travel, Atlantis and much more.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 117pp. Discussion paper from the National and Local Government Officers Association (a precursor of Unison) on energy policy for the UK. Scarce.
All pages very dusty. The booklet has been stored folded. Rusty staples only just holding. 12pp. The works and method of the B.S.A. Tools Ltd Sparkbrook. Fascinating piece of engineering history. Reprinted from 'Machinery' June 10th 1920..
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 144pp. The construction of the engineering wonder of the American Southwest in 1931-1935 - the 726 foot high Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The material is taken from five booklets which Compressed Air Magazine published over the construction period to give its readers a progressive account of the work. Also includes details of the railroad system, the gravel-treating and concrete-mixing plants, the cofferdams, the aerial cableways, the penstocks and how the concrete was poured and cooled. Very well illustrated.
