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30441Paris, Henri et Charles Norlet, imprimeurs du corps législatif, 1856 - grand in-8 broché, 45 pages, comprenant le détail financier du projet, la description des différents tronçons du projet, des documents administratifs, des rapports d'enquêtes et procès-verbaux, des avis d'ingénieurs et de conseils-généraux et, in fine, une très grande carte rempliée en couleurs exprimant les diverses lignes de Canalisation et de Chemins de Fer en cours d'exécution ou à l'étude pour l'ensemble des Landes et de la Gascogne - Très rare, document exceptionnel, état convenable, rousseurs éparses in texte, une petite déchirure sur la carte (heureusement sur un emplacement vide),
8vo. X, 86, (2) pp. Papered spine. Rare habilitation thesis on illnesses of the placenta. The German physician F. A. Wilde (1801-51), a pioneer of birth control, would go on to invent the rubber cervical cap (pessary). - Some waterstaining. Engelmann 636. Hirsch VI, 274. Kayser VIII, 536. OCLC 46162934. Not in Waller.
XV, (3), 364, (2) SS. Bedruckte Originalbroschur. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe; hervorgegangen aus einem 1855 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften gehaltenen Vortrag über die Gecshichte des Goldes, Kupfers und Eisens (1856 in den Sitzungsberichten veröffentlicht) und hier auf alle Metalle ausgedehnt. - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Verfassers an den Botaniker Eduard Fenzl (1808-79): "Dem verehrten Freunde und Collegen Herrn Professor Dr. Ed. Fenzl vom Verfasser". Titel mit Stempel des Botanischen Instituts der Universität Wien. 1967 erschien ein Nachdruck des seltenen Werkes. Zum Wiener Mineralogen F. X. M. Zippe (1791-1863) vgl. ADB und Wurzbach. Wurzbach LX, 171 ("1855").
2002x-111816671XJohn Wiley & Sons Inc 2002. Paperback. New. 174 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.37 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc paperback
268 pages. Black and white diagrams. "A guide for engineers, planners and maintenance supervisors in scheduling inspection, maintenance and repair of waterfront structures and related facilities." - from page 1. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A quality copy. Book
338 pages. Many black and white photos. Author provided geotechnical consulting engineering in over forty countries. This book relates his everyday experiences in the form of 71 case histories of landslides, rock slides, transportation geotechnology and geotechnical engineering in surface mining. Each example illustrates at least one important lesson. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this valuable reference. Book
48 pages. Features: Aircraft Engine Trends; Materials and Methods Used in the Manufacture of Aircraft Engines; X-Rays and Their Application to Aircraft Materials; Valves for Aircraft Engines; Equipment for Building Aircraft Engines - many photos; Motor Specifications; Electric Generators for Aircraft; Airports and Landing Fields in the U.S. (by state); New Radio Transmitter Developed; News of the Industry; New Developments; Chevrolet Aircraft Engines Corp. ad includes photo of Louis Chevrolet and his 333 engine; Handsome photo ad for the Packard-Diesel aircraft which 'flies the mail'; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
The special issue is extra large and contains 122 pages. Dozens of fantastic vintage photo-illustrated ads. Features: Fantastic Shorts one-page ad includes photos of their massive flying boats; Illustrated article on the first rocket motor built in Britain, the De Havilland Sprite; J.W. Dunne - Obituary; Rocket Fighters for Home Defense; Indian Ocean Survey - The first full story, told by J. Cowan, of a long-range survey flight from Australia to South Africa undertaiken by a Quantas Empire Airways' Lancastrian which left Sydney on November 14, 1948; Air Transport Affairs; Nice 4-page color ad for the Hawker Siddeley Group; Great color ad for the Apollo passenger aircraft; Nice one-page color ad for the Fairey Gyrodyne; The War Against Winter; Nice photo-illustraed Handley Page ad presents aircraft they have produced, past to present; For the Aeronautical Engineer; Flight Assessments During 1948-9; Magnificent 8-page colour illustrated ad for De Havilland's planes; A Review of Britain's Aircraft Industry; and much, much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this extraordinary issue. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Northwest Airways; Racon Electric Co. photo ad inside front cover says their Racon 9 unit airplane horn was used to direct landing of the "Akron"; Highlights at Paris; Balanced Elevators; Metal Monocoque Construction; Inspection gauges Used on Radial Engine Crankcases; Servicing the Autogiro; New Planes and Engines - the Hornet Tic, the Heinkel Sportplane; Review of Foreign Press; Airports and Transportation Engineering; Airplane Reception of Television from Ground Station; Edo Automatic Water Rudders; Electric Welding in Aircraft Construction; The History of the Scintilla Magneto; Books; News of the Industry; nostalgic ads; One-page photo portrait of "The Sky Chief", Frank Hawks' new Northrop monoplane; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
150 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Expertly illustrated with black and white photos and detailed diagrams. Despite the fact that it appears to have been printed circa 1965 this technical work is sure to remain of lasting value to any engineer involved with rolling mill design or maintenance. Chapters include: Calculation of Roll Force and Power Requirements for Rolling Work; Basic Principles for the Design of Bearings for Rolling Mill Equipment; Maintenance and Installation; Examples of the Calculation and Design of Bearing Arrangements for Roll Neck Applications. Unmarked. Average wear. Short opening at bottom of front hinge. A sound working copy. Book
63 pages. A detailed description of how mines were intricately surveyed in 1842 - 1892. "Be the mine limestone, ironstone, coal or clay, the same process is gone through." - from chapter one. Maroon cloth cover with gilt lettering. Page 56/57 binding loose but intact. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Minor foxing to sides of content on pages that fold out. Otherwise content unmarked. Minor wear to spine and corners. A worthy copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Aircraft Design Trends; Aircraft Dope and Finish Problems; Cabin Insulation; Graphical Methods for Least-Square Problems; Joining and Soldering - results of tests on duraluminum and aluminum joined with recently developed aluminum solders; Fundamental Aerodynamics (part 5) - a detailed study of characteristics essential in the selection of an airfoil; Book Reviews; New Aircraft - with photo of the American Eagle Flybabout; News of the Industry - with photo of Arthur Sowden of the Detroit Steel Products Company; Photo othe Fokker Aircraft Corporation factory at Wheeling, West Virginia; Airports and Airways; many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Aircraft Propellers - empirical formula for Maximum Fiber-Stress and Explanations of them and Considerations that apply to Variable-Pitch Propellers; Relation of Production Cost to Quantity in Airplane Manufacturing - pressed metal vs. wood and welded steel tubing; Starters for Airplane Engines; Fundamental Aerodynamics (part IV) - effect on characteristics of giving an airfoil taper in plan form and in thickness; New Aircraft (photo of Fokker F-11); News of the Industry - with photo of executives of the Timm Airplane Corporation, including Jack Gardner, Wally D. Timm and Otto W. Timm; Airports and Airways; New Developments; many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with photos in colour and black and white. Printed upon glossy stock. An impressive presentation of the productive capacity of this Japanese firm, published the year after Japan became the world leader in shipbuilding. Students of Japan's WWII naval history will have interest in the two pages which describe and illustrate the major production contributed to this effort by this firm's Maizuru Naval Yard, including the destroyers Nowake, Akizuki, Inazuma, Amagiri, and Shimakaze. Binding tight. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Derivation of Induced Velocity at the Airfoil with Elliptical Loading; Aluminum Casting Alloys in Aircraft; Aircraft Dope and Finish Problems; Suggestions for Training Aircraft Welders; Selling the Airplane; Airport Management; Details about the International Aircraft Exposition, with list of exhibitors; Aeronautical Abstracts; New Aircraft; News of the Industry - with photos of J.T. Hartson, R.W. Fulton, and Lieut. James H. Doolittle; Airports and Airways; New Developments; Ad for the Cincinnati Aircraft Show, March 26 to April 1; Illustrated ad for "The World's Tallest Hotel", the Morrison Hotel in Chicago; Los Angeles County promotional ad; Ad for the St. Louis International Aircraft Exposition; Wright De Coster, Inc. ad for their "75" horn which 'can be heard for miles'; Stromberg-Carlson ad on back cover includes photo of George Wies, pilot, and Jack Peace, engineer, beside Pioneer Instrument Co. service plane; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Archival tape repair to back cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
57 pages. "Offered for the purpose of acquainting the engineering personnel operating U.S. Maritime Commission's Liberty and Victory Ships with the piston ring details for engines and pumps using piston rings." - from title page. Company representative's sticker inside front board. Ink stamp of "Chief Engineer SS Henry Austin" atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy with attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon red front board. Book
Pages 465-560. Features: Scuttled German fleet is salvaged; When reindeer roamed the Pyrenees; Office building of the new era; Television's progress; Giant Airplanes; Behind the scenes in modern archeology; Timing the Schneider Cup races; The Puzzles of the comets - II; Radio in 1930; Largest electrified metal mine; Insuring safety on airlines; The art of Pliocene Man; Esthetic Engineering; American Passenger Air Transport III; Wires and Cables for the Hudson River Bridge; and more. Above-average wear. Front cover nearly loose. Multiple openings to backstrip. A worthy reference copy Magazine
50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates the round the world trip of Mears and Collyer in 1928; Design and Construction of Aluminum Alloy Floats - article with photo of Keystone Commuter; Air-Cooled Cylinder Head Design; The Privateer Amphibian - A Low Wing Pusher Monoplane; Wind Tunnel Testts on Airplane Wheel Cowlings; Improvement and Economy in Carburetor Control; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing (part II); Effectiveness and Balance of Horizontal Control Surface; The Month's best from the Foreign Press; Assembly Instructions of the Fairchild Cabin Monoplane 71; Method of Making the Navy Type Cable Splice; How to Design and Build and Aircraft Finishing Room; Airplane and Engine Repair Cost Accounting; Puti It Up to Parker; How Fast Do They Fly?; New Products; Nice ad inside back cover Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
89 pages. Illustrated with line drawings. "Written as a (wartime) guide for the designer of leaf spring installations... Contains information enabling the calculation of space required for leaf springs, suitable attachments, and determination of the elastic and geometric properties of the assembly. The detail design of the spring itself is also described." - from Introduction. Hardcover library binding with usual markings. Original covers present. A sound and now rare original copy of this eminently practical second world war design manual. Book
534 pages. Index. Diagrams and reproductions of black and white photos. "A complete illustrated textbook on cork insulation - the origin of cork and history of its use for insulation - the study of heat and determination of the heat conductivity of various materials - complete specifications and directions for the proper application of cork insulation in ice and cold storage plants and other refrigeration installations - the insulation of household refrigerators, ice cream cabinets and soda fountains." - subtitle. Tight library binding with usual markings. Average wear. A sound copy of this informative and now nostalgic reference. Book
xxx, 370 pages, with pages 321-370 bound inside back board. "A volume of drawings showing all kinds of structures in a shaft and at both ends of it - ideas that any good engineer can fit into a design to solve his problems. A book of real practical value to the men who are equipping and operating mines." - Foreword. Two handwritten names inside front board and two smallish holes to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to attractive maroon cloth-covered boards. A quality copy of this sensational vintage mining reference. Book
444 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Explores what innovative farmers and scientists are doing now - as well as during the past fifty years - so strengthen and purify the soil on which we - and the plants and animals we live on - depend; how new, healthier, and more productive ways have been found to raise food crops, thus eliminating reliance on petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides with their serious side effects." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear and no tears to dust jacket preserved in a clear protective cover. Nice copy of the increasingly scarce hard cover version of this classic work on healthy soil enrichment. Book
40 pages. Features: The Development of Curved Surfaces; Aviation Engine Cylinder Finishing; Plywood in Aircraft; Aircraft Ignition Equipment; The Technology of Woods Used in Aircraft Construction; Radiophone Communication on Air Passenger and Mail Routes - article with photo of engineer Thorp Hiscock; News of the Industry; New Developments; Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Burnelli All-Wing Principle; Ad for the new Chevrolet 333 engine includes photo of Louis Chevrolet; Ford Transport aircraft photo ad says it offers optional Packard Diesel motor; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Another Method of Developing Curved Surfaces; The Construction of Aircraft in Steel; The Application of Silver Solders in Aircraft Construction; Is Aviation Pointing Up or Down?; Some Aspects of the Seaplane; Packard ad features great photo of the new Towle Amphibian - powered by twin Packard-Diesels; The Pearson Rotary Aileron; Aircraft and Motors; News of the Industry; Continental Aircraft Engine Co. ad inside back cover features photo of Lee Gehlbach, winner of the longest air race ever held; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
526 pages. Index. "This volume is a must for those desiring a grass-roots exposure to the latest state of the art seismic data processing technology... Each subject is beautifully illustrated with a wealth of real-life examples drawn from the author's wide experience. The subject of processing parameter choice is covered in depth, and this alone makes the book uniquely valuable not only to the operational seismologist, but also to geologists and reservoir engineers." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name neatly printed atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
