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19261236Houghton Michigan: G. P. Schubert 1926. Third Printed Edition. Publisher's Green Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good. A Very Good Book Presumed Issued without a Dust Jacket. Book is bumped and rubbed to extremities. Cloth is a toned and a bit scuffed. Front pastedown and flyleaf have some pencil notations. Text is unmarked. All plates present as are instructional materials included in envelope at rear paste down. Gutter is visible for last few leaves binding is otherwise tight and square. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. ii 3-82pp. Laid-In Supplemental Material. G. P. Schubert unknown
25 SS. Mit zus. 62 (statt 64) gest. Tafeln. Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. rotem Rückenschildchen sowie Rückenfileten. Folio. Die Tafeln zur Uhrmacherkunst aus der Erstausgabe von Diderots und d'Alemberts "Encyclopédie" (Tafelband IV, "troisième livraison"). Es fehlen die letzten beiden Tafeln II B (m) und III B (n). - Zu Beginn stärkerer Wasserschaden (im Index auch den Text betreffend; die Tafeln nur im Rand betroffen). Remboîtage: Das Rückenschildchen weist den Einband als urspürunglich für Vesalius' "Tabulae ossium humanorum" aus. Lough 10.
4to (180 x 256 mm). 5 issues, 222 pp. altogether. Extracts bound together in a single volume without original wrappers. Modern red cloth with giltstamped cover title. All the five issues of "Nature" in which, between February and October 1953, the crucial papers were published that revealed to the world the double-helix structure of DNA. Some of the various authors were collaborators, others competitors, and while the credit for the discovery is today almost entirely attached to the names of Crick and Watson, their breakthrough depended on experimental work done by all the other scientists whose relevant papers were published in the same journal and are also here included. - The papers comprise, individually: - a) Pauling, L. and Corey, R. B. Structure of the Nucleic Acids (Nature 171, No. 4347, 21 Feb. 1953, p. 346). - b) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (No. 4356, 25 April 1953; p. 737f.). - c) Wilkins, M. H. F., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (p. 738-740). - d) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. E. Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (p. 740f.). - e) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (No. 4361, 30 May 1953, p. 964-967). - f) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. G. Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate (Vol. 172, No. 4369, 25 July 1953, p. 156f.). - g) Wilkins, M. H. F., Seeds, W. E., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid (No. 4382, 24 Oct. 1953, p. 759-762). - Together these papers provide the single most important advance in biology since Darwin's theory. The first, by America's leading chemist of his age, Linus Pauling, ultimately contributed least because Pauling's theory erroneously suggested a triple-helix structure. "Instead, victory fell to an unlikely quartet of scientists in England who didn't work as a team, often weren't on speaking terms, and were for the most part novices in the field" (Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 487f.). These were the American wunderkind James Watson and his older colleage Francis Crick at Cambridge; the brilliant but often overlooked Rosalind Franklin (with her student Raymond Gosling), working at King's College London; and the New Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins, also at King's but who communicated to the competition at Cambridge Franklin's key findings - particularly, an X-ray photograph showing the DNA molecule's basic shape and dimensions, which provided Watson and Crick with the crucial clue. It was by then known that "DNA had four chemical components - called adenine, guanine, cytosine and thiamine - and that these paired up in particular ways. By playing with pieces of cardboard cut into the shapes of molecules, Watson and Crick were able to work out how the pieces fit together. From this they made a Meccano-like model - perhaps the most famous in modern science - consisting of metal plates bolted together in a spiral, and invited Wilkins, Franklin and the rest of the world to have a look. Any informed person could see at once that they had solved the problem. It was without question a brilliant piece of detective work" (Bryson, p. 491f.). Less than two months later, their paper, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", appeared in "Nature". Franklin's own paper, in the same issue, shows the now-famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA fiber and pointedly concedes that "our general ideas are not inconsistent with the model proposed by Watson and Crick in the preceding communication" (vol. 171, p. 741). - For the discovery of the DNA double helix, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology. Franklin had passed away four year earlier at the age of 37, a victim of the X-rays to which she had over-exposed herself in her work. - Tightly bound and in excellent condition throughout.
190953577Evansville IN: A.L. Swanson Electrical & Manufacturing Co. ca. 1909-1925. Oblong 4to. 62 original silver gelatin photos nearly all backed in linen some w/ embossed photographer’s stamp in lower right corner or photographer’s logo in negative several marked in pencil or ink on versos occasional fraying and dustsoiling to fore-edges of linen. Recent black post-binder original brass split pin posts at gutter margin gilt lettering stamped on front cover VG exemplar. This factory sales photo album for the Swanson Electrical & Manufacturing Co. offers an important visual record of the growth of a Midwestern American manufacturing firm after World War I through the Jazz Age. Founded originally in 1900 by Albert Swanson 1876-1949 in Evansville IN this firm became one of the largest Midwestern companies engaged in electrical engineering construction repair maintenance and retail sales. These photos show how the company built and sold washing machines electric motors radios lighting systems industrial fans installed lighting displays for department stores repaired electric motors rewound generators and installed massive electric generating steam plants for factories. These include photos of the new mill built after 1909 for Swans Down Flour showing the exterior stack for steam the control panels and more; followed by images of the electrical conduits and sea of electric motors for the spinning mill machinery of the Cannelton Cotton Mill in Indiana for the Rumble & Wensel Company; a Heinz plant near Indianapolis IN; and of special interest are the photos of the generating plant installed for the Mead Johnson Co. infant formula plant built in Evansville IN in the wake of World War I. These photos also show the repair shops the massive electrical machines the winding of coils the oil and grease-soaked workers amidst a sea of electrical machine parts work benches metal lathes and more. In addition there are a number of photos of the interior of the new Monitor Furniture Co. Plant on East Virginia St. in Evansville IN finished at the end of 1920. Swanson began repairing and installing electrical equipment in a small downtown shop before the end of the 19th century and by 1915 was refurbishing and selling giant Westinghouse and General Electric motors and generators. In 1919 the Company was incorporated and began quickly expanding finally changing its name to the Swanson-Nunn Co. which continued to install and sell equipment out of their building on 8th street much of the 20th Century. Mason 1886-1944 was a commercial photographer who specialized in architectural and advertising photography in Evansville IN throughout his career. See: Evansville Electrical Concern Re-organzied In: Electrical Review August 2 1919 pp. 209-210. A.L. Swanson Electrical & Manufacturing Co., unknown
193552151Walton-on-Thames: Hewittic Electric Co. Ltd. ca. 1935. 4to. 5 leaves unnumbered thick paper stock eath with 5 original photographs mounted of Hewittic Transformers with inventory number and typed explanation below sized 6 x 8 in. Original blue textured softcover split-pin binder black lettering on front cover yapp edges slight sunning to fore-edges still VG copy. First edition of this scarce salesman’s sample catalogue of Hewittic Transformers installed in the at the Tir John Power Station. The Tir John Power Station near Swansea was a super coal-fired power station producing electricity for the newly-created National grid and was built by the Swansea Corporation to help relieve massive unemployment resulting from the impact of the Great Depression. At the time it was the largest engineering project in Wales and the largest power station in Britain operating until 1976. Hewittic Electric Co., Ltd., paperback
D1692n.p. n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. N.d. but early 1900s. Cloth-backed boards with lettering stamped in brown on upper board; contains 4 full-color illustrations with moveable flaps to demonstrate the inner workings of a electric engines. Boards rubbed and scuffed; spine tips and corners bumped. Illustrations are bright and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover
193552150Aix-les-Bains France: Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques ca. 1935. 4to. 7 leaves unnumbered thick paper stock with 7 original silver gelatin photographs tipped-in sized 7 x 9.5 in. with explanatory text dittoed on verso of leaf. Textured brown softcover split-pin binder embossed & raised decorative blue lettering & company logo on front cover yapp edges minor creasing to corners shelfwear still a NF copy. First edition of this scarce photographic salesman’s sample catalogue including the transformers and electrical transmission equipment produced by Savoisienne the largest French manufacturer of such equipment at the time. The photographs show one of their large Three-Phase Transformers installed at a substation in the Netherlands at Kembs France on the Rhine below Strasbourg a large Single phase transformer installed in The Hague the Netherlands another Three-Phase Transformer installed in Rotterdam as well as other industrial electrical transformers. Three phase electrical transformers are a necessary requirement for large industrial production because they handle the heavy electrical loads more smoothly and efficiently and can provide 173% more power than the two conductors of a a single-phase system. Savoisienne Societe de constructions electriques was founded in 1921 by Leon Egger and Claudius Forest two French electrical engineers whose company quickly expanded into specializing in transformer and electrical generating equipment for heavy industry between the World Wars. By the mid-1930s their massive production plant at Aix-les-Bains covered over 12500 square meters and would continue to grow into the 21st century as the Alstom Company and then Areva T. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Yves Bouvier Without and with the State: the French Electrical Manufacturers in a Global Economy Session D4. Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques, paperback
193552149Aix-les-Bains France: Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques ca. 1935. 4to. 7 leaves unnumbered thick paper stock with 7 original silver gelatin photographs tipped-in sized 7 x 9.5 in. with explanatory text dittoed on verso of leaf. Textured brown softcover split-pin binder embossed & raised decorative blue lettering & company logo on front cover yapp edges minor creasing to corners shelfwear still a NF copy. First edition of this scarce photographic salesman’s sample catalogue including the transformers and electrical transmission equipment produced by Savoisienne the largest French manufacturer of such equipment at the time. The photographs show one of their large Three-Phase Transformers installed at a substation in the Netherlands at Kembs France on the Rhine below Strasbourg a large Single phase transformer installed in The Hague the Netherlands another Three-Phase Transformer installed in Rotterdam as well as other industrial electrical transformers. Three phase electrical transformers are a necessary requirement for large industrial production because they handle the heavy electrical loads more smoothly and efficiently and can provide 173% more power than the two conductors of a a single-phase system. Savoisienne Societe de constructions electriques was founded in 1921 by Leon Egger and Claudius Forest two French electrical engineers whose company quickly expanded into specializing in transformer and electrical generating equipment for heavy industry between the World Wars. By the mid-1930s their massive production plant at Aix-les-Bains covered over 12500 square meters and would continue to grow into the 21st century as the Alstom Company and then Areva T. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Yves Bouvier Without and with the State: the French Electrical Manufacturers in a Global Economy Session D4. Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques, paperback
1852000013458New York / Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Co. / Geo. S. Appleton 1852. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. Large 8vo. 3 10-960 2; 3 4-960 2 pp. Quarter contemporary brown sheep over brown publisher's cloth with the spines in six compartments gilt lettering and decorations on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one likely lacking the publisher's advertisements. Both volumes illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page engravings: diagrams of steam engines trains gears mills architecture and other aspects of industrialization. The title page states four thousand engravings on wood. First published in 1850 these are early reprints of Appleton's informative and copious engineering references. Two hinges neatly repaired some foxing to the boards and the versos of the endpapers. D. Appleton & Co. / Geo. S. Appleton hardcover
195051105New York McGraw-Hill 1950. 8vo. In the original full cloth with the original dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with light miscolouring to spine and and a tear to capitals. Small tear to upper part of the back to dust-jacket. A very fine and clean copy. XIII 1 451 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition in the rare original dust-jacket of the first textbook on digital computers. It constitutes "the first genuine textbook on computing techniques and computer hardware was a pioneering book that influenced both American and foreign computer developments." Tomash-Erwin E14. "The first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer" OOC"High-Speed Computing Devices was written to satisfy a perceived need following the end of World War II for a compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of the electronic digital computer. Because published technical information was scarce in the US there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to the computer literature of the 1950s. For today's student of computer history whether a professional historian or a history buff the book with its state-of-the-art picture of the period 1947 through 1949 establishes a well-documented baseline for tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress" A.A. Cohen "Introduction" Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report 1983."It provides the best picture of the state of the industry in its infancy. Ostensibly written as a report to the Office of Naval Research the work was really undertaken on behalf of the Naval cryptographic establishment. Engineering Research Associates ERA was a group formed primarily from demobilized World War II naval cryptographers. It presents a discussion of the mechanical and electrical both analog and digital devices that could be usefully incorporated into computing machines. Although it does not survey the computer projects then underway it does occasionally discuss individual machines in the context of integrating devices into complete systems. Engineering Research Associates ERA later became a division of Remington Rand and then of Sperry Rand." Tomash-Erwin E14Tomash-Erwin E14.Origins of Cyberspace 584. </em> hardcover
191546618Liverpool England: Meccano Ltd. ca. 1915. One oblong 8vo. instruction book 10 x 7 in. 98 pp. Over 150 text woodcut illustrations diagrams & charts. Recent black cloth colour plate mounted front cover some interior tears edgewear chipping to corners still a G copy; together with two Meccano engineering education outfits which appear to have 90% of the necessary pieces distributed between the two including 25 hole angle strips Sector Plates Axles Cranks Pulleys brass nuts & bolts in Box 3a spring original tool screwdriver tool angle rods clips and much more. Both kits with wooden boxes covered in black paper colour plates on upper cover of lids lid to kit 3a lacking back piece colour plate on inner side of lid of first kit minor edgewear some chipping rubbing still a G set. A fascinating pair of original pre-World War I Meccano mechanical engineering kits which were developed and invented by Frank Hornby in 1898. He developed the original kits to teach his sons how to build the cranes that fascinated them when watching ships being unloaded in Liverpool. The first Meccano factory opened in 1907 and in 1910 Hornby published his first book on using the pieces of education Hornby System of Mechanical Demonstration. The instruction book with these kits explains how to build cranes the Eiffel Tower Ferris Wheels Bridges Lighthouses many of them requiring substantial accessory kits which were marketed and sold by the Meccano Company. The company continues to operate until this day in France from their factory in Calais and in 2000 they bought the Erector brand. Meccano, Ltd., hardcover
189135628n.p.: The Engineering Company 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 1 viii 872 pages. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with leather corners and spine. Gilt title on the spine. This volumes has condition issues. Cloth is wrinkled and creased. Boards are worn and warped. Text block is warped in spots with damp stains/toning to the pages edges. Front hinge was broken and now glued. Rear hinge cracked. No mold mildew or soil in the text. A fair reading copy. Articles include "Keeping the Mississippi Within Her Banks"; "Pure Water For Our Cities"; "Business Opportunities in Hawaii"; "The Rapid Transit Problem"; "Architecture"; and several more articles. Editor or place of publication is not identified. The Engineering Company hardcover
201764Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791 in-8, 18 pp., dérelié.
1893115808Paris, E. Bernard & Cie 1893 In-4 27,5 x 17,5 cm. Reliure demi-basne havane, dos lisse orné de roulettes dorées, 476 pp., notes en bas de page, 322 figures dans le texte, table des matières, index alphabétique.
4to (167 x 215 mm). Persian illuminated manuscript on paper. 31 ff., written on both sides, 11 lines per extensum. Black ink with rubricated titles, written in a thin and very cursive Indian nastaliq style tending already to perform the "shorthand" writing infractions of the shekasteh ("broken") variety. With a coloured headpiece and 10 full-page coloured illustrations. Blindstamped red leather with reinforced spine. A prose work of anecdotal moral tales, most likely from North-Western India (now Pakistan) from the mid or third quarter of the 19th century. Untitled and without a colophon or marginalia, beginning abruptly, it appears to be incomplete, despite the conventional presence of an - apparently overpainted - headpiece of the sarlawh type. - Unlike similar Persian allegorical prose works, whose tales revolve mostly around allegorical animal characters, this narrative, oriented towards moral and spiritual instruction, appears to be inspired on the one hand by Saadi’s gently ironic works such as "Gulestan". Divided into several chapters, or "abvab", it focuses on the moral analysis of human deeds and intentions, informed by Indian Sufi spiritual tradition. - The scene is set in an exquisitely Indian historical context: the text mentions a "raj" (Hindu king), and the Mughal Empire also make an appearance with the protagonist of the final tale, Alamgir Padshah (the "World-Seizing Emperor", likely the Mughal ruler Awrangzeb, who reigned 1658-1707), encountering a certain Mard-i murtaz (a spiritually well-versed man). The manuscript is embellished by full-page miniatures, one depicting a hunting scene, another illustrating a valiant horseman slaying a dragon-like monster. The illustrations are colourful and lively, if conventional in their disposition of the human figures and landscape before a background without depth.
183633571Philadelphia: Printed by John C. Clark/ C. Sherman & Co. Printers 1836. Wraps. Good. Disbound trimmed wraps. Two parts: 84 pages; 48 pages. Part I is illustrated with 6 plates and a few in text illustrations. The second part has a few illustrations in text. Light toning and scattered foxing to the paper. Bache was the Chairman of the Committee for the Franklin Institute. Scientific information and draft legislation for regulation of boilers and engines is located in these two parts. Each part was printed seperately by different printers. Printed by John C. Clark/ C. Sherman & Co. Printers unknown
76 volumes, mostly offprints or articles removed from journals, bound in private wrappers or in the original printed wrappers. Mostly 8vo but including a few specimens in small folio. An ensemble of 82 works from the library of Sigmund Freud, comprising roughly half of the known corpus now in private hands. In his census, the medical historian Gerhard Fichtner established the number of works from Freud's former library now in private ownership at only 166 works, or some 4 percent of his former collection of 3725 titles, the vast majority of which (more than 3,400 books) are today preserved by the Freud Museum in London and the Health Sciences Library in New York. Regarding the privately owned works, "it is noteworthy that Freud (during both the Viennese and London time) bestowed upon Eva Rosenfeld, a friend of Anna Freud, 25 important early items from his library. Amongst the privately owned volumes are also some that surfaced in recent years in the second-hand market. They are predominantly offprints, whose dedications show they once belonged to Freud's library and, as a rule, carry the partially erased stamp of the Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium Vienna. They must have arrived long before Freud's emigration in this library, which was seized and destroyed by the Nazis. Did the erasure of the stamp help to save these items, or did it disguise unauthorized possession? They come from the estate of a German analyst" (Davies/Fichtner, pp. 17f.). Indeed, the nature of some of these erasures - rather constituting overpastings with near-contemporary typed transcriptions of those parts of the text obscured by the stamp (as in David Baumgart's article on Spinoza's image in German and Jewish thought) - would strongly suggest the former reason: such an overpasting would arguably have sufficed to conceal the items' provenance from a cursory examination in 1938, but would not at all be helpful to a collector wishing to obscure a third party's title. - The present ensemble includes articles by 40 different authors from a range of disciplines, including Hugo Bergmann, Eugen Bleuler, Carl Clemen, Josef Friedjung, Heinrich Gomperz, Gustav Hans Graber, Jakob Kläsi, Otto Pötzl, and Isidor Sadger. Two specimens preserve the author's inscription to Freud (by Pötzl); others contain autograph corrections by the author (Sadger). Eighteen items show traces of a removed stamp or inscription. Paper often brittle; some wrappers a little rubbed or chipped, but on the whole very well preserved. Acquired from a Belgian private collection. Detailed list available on request. Cf. Davies/Fichtner (eds.), Freud's Library. A Comprehensive Catalogue (Tübingen/London, 2006).
180651Pre-World War II. Japanese lacquer tray 21.2 x 21.2cm. Few small chips along one join overall in very good condition. A black lacquered tray decorated with a pattern fan and cherry blossom and in Japanese bearing the inscription "Commemorating the Victorious Return: Tenth Engineering Division" and a haiku verse celebrating the mountain cherry trees. Although undated it is clear this tray must be pre-1945 as the Tenth Engineering division participated in several conflicts from the Russo-Japanese War onward but the tray does not indicate which victory is being celebrated. . unknown
203598Cologne Evergreen 1994. 2vols. xx790798pp. 4to. Original boards lightly rubbed. Previous owners name in ink to ffe. A very good copy. Cologne, Evergreen, 1994. hardcover
199915131Princeton NM: Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science 1999. Paperback. Very Good. A handsome thick quarto paperback publication with illustrated front cover. Reprinted from PEAR publications sectioned by paper with titled cardstock index page: Persistent Paradox; Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness; Engineering Anomalies Research; Random Mechanical Cascade; Remote Interactions; FieldREG; Count Populations; Bayesian Analysis; Series Position Effects; Gender Differences; Analysis and Aesthetics; Information Consciousness and Health; REG Correlations; Science of the Subjective. Most articles include Jahn and Dunne who led the team. Very good copy. Held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. 15 papers x 10.00 = 150.00 bound firmly for ease of use and reference. Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science paperback
Deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. (1) S., 3 w. SS., 294, (18), 311 SS., eine w. Seite, (4) SS., 2 w. Bll. Ungebundene Bögen. 4to (190 x 230 mm). Saubere Vorlesungsmitschrift der einführenden medizinischen Lehrveranstaltung an der Universität Innsbruck, gehalten von Franz Karl Karpe, der von 1818 bis zu seinem Tod Professor für Theoretische Medizin bzw. 1823/24 und 1833 Rektor der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck war. Im Vorlesungsverzeichnis für das Jahr 1834 scheint die Lehrveranstaltung auf unter dem Titel "Ueber Encyclopädie und Methodologie, als eine Einleitung in das medicinisch-chirurgische Studium, ferner über theoretische Medicin, nämlich: Physiologie, allgemeine Pathologie und allgemeine Therapie; dann über Diätetik, medicinische und chirurgische Arzneimittel-Lehre und Receptirkunst, nach Nushard". Grundlage für die Vorlesung war das zweibändige Lehrbuch "Theoretische Medicin für Wundärzte" (Prag, 1824-26) des Mediziners Franz Willibald Nusshard (1785-1847), der während der Choleraepidemie von 1831/32 gemeinsam mit Julius Vincenz von Krombholz die Lazarette in Prag leitete und 1843 zum Direktor aller dortigen Krankenhäuser und Versorgungsinstitutionen ernannt wurde. - Die Mitschrift zur Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie (311 SS.) ohne separates Titelblatt. Mit 18 SS. über Heilquellen in Tirol und Vorarlberg, eine Aufzählung, die sich in der Dissertation des Mediziners Johann Georg Gmeiner (Wien 1838) wiederfindet. - Papierbedingt etwas gebräunt; vereinzelte Randläsuren; wenige Seiten mit leichem Wurmfraß nahe der rechten oberen Ecke. Mit auffallend wenigen Korrekturen. - Eine frühere Mitschrift zu Karpes Vorlesung aus dem Jahr 1827 befindet sich in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (Cod. 1193).
195064344CBRheinhausen, Verlag der Friedrich Krupp AG, 1950. 8°. 17,5 x 12 cm. [1] Blatt, 75 Seiten. Klammergeheftete Original-Broschur. [2 Warenabbildungen]
First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), vi, [2], 74pp., without the map, later quarter calf by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, slightly rubbed, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Charles Labelye (1705-1753) was a Swiss civil engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage from the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, he is best known for his work on the original Westminster Bridge. He was invited by the Duke of Bedford and the Corporation of the Fens to compile a full and detailed report which was undertaken during periods of special leave granted him by the Westminster Bridge Commission. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Lord Esm? S. Gordon. Skepton, 815, 816.
33 original black-and-white NASA photographs (gelatin silver prints), ca. 255 x 203 mm each, with extensive official captions and NASA logo printed on the back in purple ink. Stored within black cardboard binder, photographs in individual transparent sleeves. A collection of original gelatin silver prints showing the surface of the planet Mars, taken by the American robotic space probes Mariner 6, 7, and 9: five photographs taken by Mariner 6 and seven taken by Mariner 7 (1969); the remaining 21 taken by Mariner 9 in 1971-72. All are extensively annotated on the reverse with NASA's printed official photo captions. - Mariner 6 and 7 flew over Mars' equator and south polar regions, analysing the atmosphere and the surface with remote sensors and relaying to Earth hundreds of grayscale pictures. The mission goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars in close flybys, so as to establish the basis for future investigations and to demonstrate and develop technologies required for future Mars missions. Two years later, NASA launched Mariner 8 and 9 - the former crashing into the Atlantic immediately, leaving the single surviving orbiter to perform a mission designed for two. Upon its arrival, NASA scientists were further dismayed to find the planet obscured by thick dust storms. Nevertheless, the mission turned out a complete success: after the dust had settled, the probe managed to send back excellent pictures of the surface. After 349 days in orbit, Mariner 9 had transmitted no fewer than 7329 images, covering 85% of Mars' surface. The images revealed river beds, craters, massive extinct volcanoes (such as Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System), canyons, evidence of wind and water erosion and deposition, weather fronts, and fogs. Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, were also photographed. The findings from the mission underpinned the later Viking program. - The exploration of Mars continues: the summer 2020 launch window saw the United Arab Emirates send an orbiter on the Al Amal (Hope) Mars Mission. It arrived in February 2021 to study the Martian atmosphere and weather.
192251691Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger 1922. Folio portfolio. With 7 large double-page colour chromolithograph plates 11 elaborate colour-lithograph paper models with overlays printed on thick cardstock. Contemporary gray-green boards stamped in gilt & black on front cover black cloth spine minor bumping to corners shelfwear light uniform toning still VG copy w/ all models in excellent working condition. First edition thus of this installment of Georg’s inventive and technically accurate moveable model atlases which were instructional pieces that were available separately from the technical volumes. This one features eleven pop-up models with elaborate overlays including a 1920 3-ton motor truck with stave bed by the famed company which also produced buses and other large transport vehicles the Zwilling four-cylinder steam engine which was a narrow gauge locomotive based on the three-truck Shay design; as well as the 1922 Protos 10/30 Phaeton which featured 4 cylidners 30 horsepower and was a remarkably reliable automobile. In addition this features models of a DC turbo dynamo a steam electric generator a heavy duty Deutz AG gas engine a Stirling steam boiler with a couple duplicates. Heinrich Killinger, hardcover
