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36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: They Came Before Cook - Explorers who visited British Columbia before Captain James Cook; Church at Yale, B.C. Has Roots - it has seen over a century of service; The Haunted Man - An 1861 Victoria Detective Story; The Unknown Land - times have changed since American fisheries officer James Swan visited the Queen Charlotte Islands almost a century ago; Poundmaker - Son of Crowfoot; British Columbia's Hedley Camp and the Nickel Plate Mine; Reminiscences of hundred-year-old mining man John 'Jake' Turnbull; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo. (2), XXVIII, 300 pp. With 10 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped red label to spine. First edition. - "The author disproves the electrical theory of Franklin as well as the affluent and effluent views of Abbé Nollet; experiments on statistical electricity; also on magnetism" (Wheeler Gift). Also concerns the "influence du fluide électrique dans la traitement des maladies nerveuses" (subtitle). - Some foxing. Rare. Wheeler Gift 640. Ronalds 392. Hirsch/H. IV, 567.
224 pages. Black and white photographic plates. A soil and conservation expert looks at our Army engineers and their multi-billion-dollar program for damming our rivers, and argues that water should be kept where it falls. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Few library markings. Sound working copy. Book
... Softcover, good condition, w. lightly rubbed wraps, sme lt marks. Sme lt wear at fr sp edge. Ltly slanted sp. Ltly tanned p. edges, a few ltly bumped p. corners, p. bottoms. Ltly tanned pp. Cln, tight, unmarked.
minor rubbing along the edges of the cover. Ex - Library, Usual Stamps
Paperback in acceptable condition. The cover is marked and edgeworn, with a few creases and nicked edges. A small portion is chipped on the front upper leading corner and the rear lower edge. The spine is bumped and worn, with a portion chipped on each end. The binding is visible on the spine ends and to a lesser extent, on the hinges. The fold out plan of the tunnel is missing from this copy. Some of the pages are marked and foxed. The binding remains intact. The text and illustrations are clear. CM Used
Rubbing wear and some light chipping to DJ edges. Text is clean, tight and bright
Hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. A few light scores on boards. Light wear on spine ends and leading corners. Contents are clean and clear. AM Used
Folio (ca. 213 x 342 mm). (4), 40, (4) pp. With additional engraved title and 15 numbered folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. All edges red. Fifth edition of the popular "Gnomonica" by the German professor of mathematics and economics Penther (1693-1749), first published in 1733. It discusses various types of sundials, their construction, how to install and adjust them, and explains important terms of geometry. The plates illustrate these explanations and include sketches for geometric calculations and a small map of Germany on plate II. With several shelfmarks with pencil and pen to pastedown. - Spine ends worn and chipped, paper lightly browned throughout, but an appealing copy. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel. Houzeau/Lancaster I, V, 11614. Zinner 463. Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-tech. 279. Kayser IV, 316. VD 18, 12519219. Cf. La Lande 448 (1752 ed.); Poggendorff II, 400 ("1734", 1760). Cf. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 1755 ("1734").
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Published in association with the London & North-Western Railway Society.
129 illustrations, 15 tables, gilt lettering to spine. Lightly rubbed head and tail of spine and corners of boards, colour waterstains on bottom edges of BEP and FEP and bottom of page block, previous owner's name on FEP, age stain on FEP and BEP, significant creasing to BEP, crease through pages 129 - 252, otherwise text is clean, bright and tight throughout. Used
in 4°, bross. edit. con sovrac. e cofanetto rigido muto
Folio. 2 pts. and addenda in 1 vol. XX, 464, (34) pp. With engr. title page, 1 engr. folding map and 15 engr. vignettes. Later marbled boards with contemporary handwritten spine label. First edition. Fundamental work on the entire mining industry in Bohemia and Moravia, reproducing numerous documents; a classic of mineralogy, technical history, and economic history. Peithner served as mining inspector in Prague. The fine, large-sized vignettes, engraved by Jacob Adam and J. E. Mansfeld, show mining scenes, coins, medals, allegories, and a small view of Prague. - A clean, wide-margined copy. Ferchl 399. Hoover 629. Humpert 3619. Koch 368. Kress 4964. Poggendorff II, 388. Wurzbach XV, 79ff.
Barcelona, Gustavo Gili Editor, 1914. 4to. menor; 2 hs., 860 pp., 2 hs. Con 932 ilustraciones y fotografías entre el texto. Primera edición en español. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Volume one only. Proceedings of the 1991 Powder Metallurgy Conference & Exhibition, 9th to 12th June 1991. Chicago. Superficial marks, light scores and creases on boards. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Library labels on spine, front pastedown and FEP. Library stamps on marked page block, FEP and one or two pages within. Binding is visible on foreword page but remains intact. Light creases throughout upper edges of pages. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Ex - Library
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
Cover looks a little corner worn. Contents in very good clean condition. Library plates on front endpapers. Library stamps on page block. Highly illustrated by text - figures and tables. Ex - Library
XII, 199, (5) SS. Marmorierter Halbleinenband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. Dreiseitiger Marmorschnitt. 4to. Erste deutsche Ausgabe, die erste überhaupt in einer westlichen Sprache. Es war diese Ausgabe, die dem Werk Pawlows (1849-1936) ihre weltweite Bedeutung verschaffte. Zugleich die früheste Edition dem Sammler zugängliche Ausgabe (die russische Auflage von 1897 gilt als praktisch unauffindbar). - "Speichelbildung ist eine geläufige Erfahrung; sie kann auch ohne den Anblick oder Geruch von Speisen erzeugt werden. Bei einem Menschen kann sich diese Reaktion zum Beispiel dann einstellen, wenn er hört, wie im Nebenraum der Tisch zum Essen gedeckt wird, und beim Hund ist dieselbe Erscheinung zu verzeichnen, wenn er beispielsweise das Klappern seines Freßgeschirrs hört. In einer Reihe von Vorlesungen, die Pawlow in Petersburg hielt und die im Jahr darauf veröffentlicht wurden, befaßte er sich eingehend mit der Erforschung dieser Vorgänge und lieferte damit einen bedeutenden Beitrag zu unserem Wissen über die Physiologie der Verdauung. Im Verlauf dieser Vorlesungen beschrieb er den künstlichen Magen für Hunde, mit dem es ihm gelang, zum ersten Mal Magensäfte ohne Nahrungszufuhr zu erzeugen [...] Pawlows Ergebnisse bilden eine Ergänzung zu denen Freuds, und viele schreiben ihnen eine wesentlichere Bedeutung zu. Wie bei Freud, so haben wir es auch hier mit dem Werk eines einzigen Mannes und mit einem völlig neuen Weg zu tun. Pawlow erhielt den Nobelpreis für Medizin im Jahre 1904" (Carter/Muir, S. 689f.). - "This first edition in German is the first translation of this classic work on the digestive glands, published in Russia the year before" (Heirs of Hippocrates). - Papier schwach gebräunt; Anstreichungen eines zeitgenöss. Lesers in Bleistift und blauem Buntstift. Ungarisches Buchhändleretikett "Lévay Márton", Nagyvárad (heute Oradea in Rumänien). Dibner 135. Heirs of Hippocrates 1105. Horblit 83. Waller 7257. Garrison/Morton 1022. Fischer 1183. Vgl. PMM 385 (russ. EA von 1897). Nicht bei Borst.
Large 8vo. 3 vols. (4), XXXII, 512 pp. (4), 566 pp. IV, 423, (1) pp. With 8 folding engraved plates and several woodcut vignettes. Contemporary marbled boards. Edges sprinkled red. 8th edition. The physicist A. H. Paulian (1722-1801) taught at the Jesuit college of Avignon, where his great dictionary of physics was first published in 1761. He had developed the word from his one-volume ‘Dictionnaire de physique portatif’ (1758). The plates depict geometric constructions and bodies, models of light refraction, astronomical models, etc. - Front covers slightly rubbed (traces of removed labels), otherwise a good, clean copy. Rare in all editions. Cf. De Backer/Sommervogel VI, 377, 3. Poggendorff II, 379.
VG (no dj, very attractive tan buckram boards with gilt titles and gilt/black decoration on spine, central black design on back board, front board with black lettering and decorative design of mechanics' tools within 3 ruled black borders, corners very lightly rubbed and small faint patch of faded speckles front board, outside page edges mottled red, internally very good condition with small name stamp front free endpaper, patchy faint browning free endpapers, no other marks, pages clean and binding firm, no foxing, light age browning page edges) quarto 190pp. Special Edition, specially prepared for subscribers. Volume IV of a set of 8 volumes, containing receipts, processes, and memoranda for workshop use, based on personal experience and expert knowledge, with 5060 illustrations and indexes of 34,000 items. This volume has b/w frontispiece with clean tissue guard, and 4 full page colour plates with clean tissue guards - the plates featuring manipulative processes, household utensils, clocks and clockwork, picture framing. (Other volumes available in this series).
Good + (no dj, very attractive tan buckram boards with gilt titles and gilt/black decoration on spine, but there are 2 small closed cuts in the middleof the spine - from falling gainst edge of shelving. not unsightly - can provise scans to re-assure you! central black design on back board, front board with black lettering and decorative design of mechanics' tools within 3 ruled black borders, corners lightly rubbed and light wear head of spine, outside page edges mottled red, internally very good condition with small name stamp front free endpaper, patchy light browning free endpapers, no other marks, pages clean and binding firm, no foxing, light age browning page edges) quarto 160pp. Special Edition, specially prepared for subscribers. Volume V of a set of 8 volumes, containing receipts, processes, and memoranda for workshop use, based on personal experience and expert knowledge, with 5060 illustrations and indexes of 34,000 items. This volume has b/w frontispiece with clean tissue guard, and 4 full page colour plates with clean tissue guards - the plates featuring rustic woodwork, mechanism of watches, doors, bent ironwork. (Other volumes available in this series).
VG (no dj, very attractive tan buckram boards with gilt titles and gilt/black decoration on spine, central black design on back board, front board with black lettering and decorative design of mechanics' tools within 3 ruled black borders, corners very lightly rubbed, outside page edges mottled red, internally very good condition with small name stamp front free endpaper, patchy light browning free endpapers, no other marks, pages clean and binding firm, no foxing, light age browning page edges) quarto 184pp. Special Edition, specially prepared for subscribers. Volume VI of a set of 8 volumes, containing receipts, processes, and memoranda for workshop use, based on personal experience and expert knowledge, with 5060 illustrations and indexes of 34,000 items. This volume has b/w frontispiece with clean tissue guard, and 4 full page colour plates with clean tissue guards - the plates featuring gates, tools used in blacksmith's work, apparatus for analysis, lamps. (Other volumes available in this series).
VG (no dj, very attractive tan buckram boards with gilt titles and gilt/black decoration on spine, central black design on back board, front board with black lettering and decorative design of mechanics' tools within 3 ruled black borders, corners lightly rubbed and 3 tiny puncture holes border of front board, outside page edges mottled red, internally very good condition with small name stamp front free endpaper, patchy browning free endpapers, no other marks, pages clean and binding firm, no foxing, light age browning page edges) quarto 160pp. Special Edition, specially prepared for subscribers. Volume VII of a set of 8 volumes, containing receipts, processes, and memoranda for workshop use, based on personal experience and expert knowledge, with 5060 illustrations and indexes of 34,000 items. This volume has b/w frontispiece with clean tissue guard, and 4 full page colour plates with clean tissue guards - the plates featuring windows, stencils, airtight cases, chairs. (Other volumes available in this series).
Appears in mint unread condition.. 422pp. Science thriller from Paul McAuley.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor creasing to lower corner of about ten adjacent pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and a couple of nicks to lower edge. 284pp.
