2 915 résultats
Hardcover. Dust jacket is marked. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and nicked. Light wear on hardcover spine ends and leading corners. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. A few minor marks in the volume. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Used
in francese 2 voll. rilegati in mezza tela con angoli, titoli al dorso, firma di appartenenza
Well over 590 pages with many vintage advertisements. Red decorated flexible boards. Contains the following sections: Steam; Steam Generation; The Steam Engine; Steam Turbines; Condensers; Gas and Oil Engines; Air Compressors; Air, Ventilation and Heating; Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery; Machine Tools; Pipes, Beams, Girders, Columns, etc.; Friction and Power Transmission; Gas for Heating, Lighting and Power; Pyrometry; and more. Front hinge gone. Former owner's name inside back board. Creasing to each boards has caused some wrinkling to fabric. Quite a nostalgic volume. Book
513p. 24 cm. Hardcover Good condition
… Hardcover, fair condition, w. smwht rubbed brds, sme marks. Largish water stains on fr and r. Ltly slanted sp, frayed at ends, esp bottom. Smwht bumped and frayed corners. V. tanned and soiled p. edges. Ltly tanned eps, pp. Lge stains on eps, sme spots
Folio, drop-head and docket titles, 4 pp., as folded, a nice copy. The ESTC locates 2 copies only, Bedfordshire Record Office and Cambridge University.
Folio, drop-head title and a docket title, 3, [1]pp., as folded, a nice copy. This refers to the Bill for the first North Level Act of 1753. Skempton, 78. The ESTC finds copies at Bedfordshire Record Office; British Library; Cambridge University; Cambridgeshire Record Office; Huntington and the University of Kansas.
Fine Fine Turkmen Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Introduction in Turkmen, facsimile in Arabic. [2], 28, 256 p., color facsimiles of the earliest of all copies, dating 1206 (preserved in the Library of Topkapi Serai, Istanbul, No. 3472), color ills. [The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices] Adatdan dasari mehanik gurallayn maglumaty hakda kitap. Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician. He is best known for writing 'The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'. Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, (lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks') in 1206, where he described 100 mechanical devices, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them. The only biographical information known about him is contained in his famed Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Artuqids which ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zengid dynasty of Mosul and later of Ayyubid general Saladin. Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial and error rather than by theoretical calculation." His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices appears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book. Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers for his fountains, al-Saghani for the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors. The most significant aspect of al-Jazari's machines are the mechanisms, components, ideas, methods, and design features which they employ. (Source: Wikipedia). There are 50 devices that Al Jazari designed and explained how they function in his book and created technical drawings of them in such detail that allow to reconstruct in its original size, make, model and full functionally. This nice facsimile edition, fully executed in color, is based on a manuscript present in the Library of Topkapi Palace, (ms. no. 3472). It is dated 1206, andaccording to the foreword, is the earliest extant copy of al-Jazarî's work.
New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Introduction in English and Turkish; [360] p. color facsimiles of the earliest of all copies, dating 1206 (preserved in the Library of Topkapi Serai, Istanbul, No. 3472), color ills. The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices.= Olaganüstü mekanik araçlarin bilgisi hakkinda kitap. [FACSIMILE]. Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician. He is best known for writing 'The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'. Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, (lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks') in 1206, where he described 100 mechanical devices, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them. The only biographical information known about him is contained in his famed Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Artuqids which ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zengid dynasty of Mosul and later of Ayyubid general Saladin. Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial and error rather than by theoretical calculation." His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices appears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book. Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers for his fountains, al-Saghani for the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors. The most significant aspect of al-Jazari's machines are the mechanisms, components, ideas, methods, and design features which they employ. (Source: Wikipedia). There are 50 devices that Al Jazari designed and explained how they function in his book and created technical drawings of them in such detail that allow to reconstruct in its original size, make, model and full functionally. This nice facsimile edition, fully executed in color, is based on a manuscript present in the Library of Topkapi Palace, (ms. no. 3472). It is dated 1206, andaccording to the foreword, is the earliest extant ccopy of al-Jazarî's work.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Bumped corners. Tear on dust jacket. 516 pages.
8vo. 63 pp., final blank page. With 4 pp. of the "Science Bulletin", not included in pagination. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations, 12 mounted photographic illustrations in colour, a plan of oil and gas fields in the U.S., and several charts and drawings. Orignal printed wrappers. Stapled. Accurate overview of gasoline production and oil exploration in the United States. Features historical images of California's first commercial oil well at Pico Canyon as well as of the Drake well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which struck oil in 1859. In addition, the booklet discusses the general merits of petroleum, its transportation, the maintenance of pipelines and the operation of drilling rigs. - Prepared in cooperation with Science Service, Washington, D.C. - Spine somewhat rubbed. With publisher's original sticker to front cover. OCLC 663432314.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 385pp. A comprehensive guide to preventing, detecting and mitigating security breaches.
Hardcover. Member's edition with authenticity certificate: no. 1,591 of 4,000. Very good, almost as-new condition; minor shelf wear to dust jacket; contents clean, sound, bright. Used
Hardcover. No jacket. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Boards are marked and worn. Light marks throughout pages. Contents remain clear. Binding is visible at one or two points but remains intact. HJW Used
Cover tanned. Owner's name on FEP. Otherwise in very good condition with all contents clean, tight and bright. Used
Madrid, Diana, (1929), 24 x 18 cm., XXXI págs. + (Objetos expuestos y otras láminas:) 153 págs. con láminas y planos + (estadísticas:) 18 hojas con cuadros + 5 h. con retratos y fotografías + 1 plano plegado en colores.
No jacket. Slightly worn cloth hardcover. Worn title on upper spine.Some marginalia in pencil, which does not obscure the text. Small abrasion on the foot of pages 8 and 9 where they appear to have previously been bonded together. Text is clear throughout. TH. Used
8 Illustrations, "The text is also elucidated by fifteen maps and diagrams." 218 pages. Front cover soiled and marked, less so the back.
stickers to the bottom of the spine and on the inside of the cover and stamps to the FEP, catalogue page and to the bottom of a few pages in the book. minor bumps to the ends of the spine. pages are bright and tight. Ex - Library, Usual Stamps
Hardcover. No jacket. Boards are marked. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and bumped. Nicks and tears on spine. Sticker on front pastedown. Inked annotations on reverse of FEP and a few other pages. Several marks in the volume. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Used
Paris-Liège, Charles Béranger Éditeur, 1911. 4to.menor; XV-454 pp., 1 h., con 44 ilustraciones entre el texto. Encuadernación en tela estampada.
... No continuous paginations. Stapled softcover, good condition, with somewhat rubbed wraps--some marks and soil, sm wrinkles. some tanning. somewhat bummped and bent corners--also some p. corners. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light soil. lightly tanne
... Hardcover, good condition, w. smwht slanted, lightly compressed sp, smwht bumped corners. Sme lt wear on brd bottoms. Smwht tanned p. edges, sme lt soil and spots. Owner's stamp on p. tops. Ltly slanted eps. Owner' stamp, sig, etc. on ffep. A few ltly
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower front corner and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 333pp. A mystery for astronaut Nigel Walmsley to get to grips with on minor planet 1566 - which could cause a comet to collide with the Earth.
280pp VG/none Original editorial blue cloth, red lettering on front board, gilt lettering on spine, negligible dent on the board, owner inscription (“Thorne Baker. Feb’09”) on pastedown, overall in VG+ conditions. A nice copy of this classic work on dynamo design with many formulas and practical examples, fully illustrated by diagrams and b/w pictures. This is the original 1908 first edition and not a modern reprint, with an interesting provenance: Thomas Thorne Baker was an English researcher and inventor in the early XX century with interests varying from chemistry to photography and electricity. He pioneered the electrical transmission of photographs, anticipating the facsimile machine.
