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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.
Name/date to front end paper. No other 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. 294pp. With over 125 carefully structured routines ranging from macros to UNIX utilities.
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 235pp. An excellent learning tool for C, the software language. Scarce in the UK.
Undated - late 19th/early 20th c. - Hardback with brown cloth boards, slightly soiled, a little worn at edges. Gilt titles. Hinges cracked and endpapers a little soiled. Contents otherwise clean and sound. Fully illustrated with diagrams throughout. TPW Used
Previous owner's initials to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, minor damp effect to lower edge of rear cover, no effect on contents and no bumping to corners. 24pp. Photographs of the Corn Street, Bath premises of JB Bowler, brass founder, ironmonger and engineer.
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.
Appears unread. 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. 216pp. Detailed account of how the age of the Universe was calculated.
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. 189pp. Using up to date theories, the authors attempt to answer questions such as 'what effect on the body from being beamed up', 'why do Vulcans have pointed ears', 'could Kirk really have sex with females of other species' ?
Ex-library hardcover, 1964 of first edition. Solid binding and except for the library distinctions, has seen little or no use. ...
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight creasing to lower edge of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 416pp. The story of the chemical firms Ciba and Geigy and how they merged in the 1970s. Translated from the German by Stanley Hubbard.
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower corner of front cover and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 340pp. Hard SF novel with fantasy and adventure from two of the subject's most successful writers.
... Hardcover, good condition, with lightly rubbed brds, some light scratches and scuffs, esp on fr. lightly slanted, ltly compressed spine, ltly bumped corners. somewhat tanned p. edges, some soil on p. tops. Ltly tanned eps, pp. Cln, tight, unmarked.
Paperback in very good condition, with no notable faults. TS Used
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Boards and spine are marked and faded. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and bumped, affecting pages. Tear across spine head. Page block and pages are marked and tanned. Pen on front pastedown. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked silver boards with a few scratches to rear, slight rubbing and tiny bumps to lower corners. 230pp. A study of the camera and photographic techniques with a wealth of famous and fascinating photographic images from the past.
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. First edition. Age related wear and fading, with bumped leading corners. The spine head and front lower leading corner are a little frayed. Minor foxing on the page block and pages throughout. Previous owner's details (in fountain pen) on the FEP. A few creased page corners. The binding remains sound; all content is clear. CM Used
Features: *Super* 15-page feature of reproduced 'Engineering Advancements and Detailed Specifications - 1936 Pierce-Arrow Twelve and Eight-Cylinder Chassis'; Front cover lithograph by Dannenberg of a 1936 7-passenger sedan; reproductions of promotional literature sent to prospective dealers in the summer of 1936; Reproduced photos (interior and exterior) of Pierce-Arrow's 1937 Special Custom Body Group; 6 pages of detailed specifications for the Eight, Model 1601 (1936), 1701 (1937), 1801 (1938) and Twelve, Models 1602, 3 (1936); 1702, 3 (1937); 1802, 3 (1938); Owen-Dyneto Starter & Generator, Delco-Remy Ignition; Moderate wear. Some soiling to covers. Bit of writing in upper corner of front corner else umarked. A sound copy. Book
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex-library. Boards and page block are lightly marked and tanned. Labels on spine and FEP. Stamps on page block and copyright page. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
... Hardcover, very good condition, w.ltly rubbed brds, a few lt marks. V. ltly slanted, ltly compressed sp. V. ltly bumped top corners, smewht bumped bottom corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges, ltly tanned eps. Cln, tight, unmarked.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning and no bumping to corners. 706pp. This work addresses Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on an eclectic study of many scientific disciplines leading to a revealing picture of the structure of the physical world solely in terms of its invariant constants.
Engineering in the ancient world from the Pyramids to Byzantium, including architecture,agriculture,weaponry,transportation. Pbk. 450p. plates.diagrams.bibliography.index. Book
Engineering in the ancient world from the Pyramids to Byzantium, including architecture,agriculture,weaponry,transportation. Pbk. 408p. illus plates.diagrams.bibliography.index. Book
Engineering in the ancient world from the Pyramids to Byzantium, including architecture,agriculture,weaponry,transportation. 408p. plates.diagrams.bibliography.index. Book
Hardcover without dust jacket. Boards are lightly marked, with one dark spot to rear board, edges are rubbed and spine is tanned. Light foxing to page block. Includes 78 illustrations, all bright and clear. Text is unmarked throughout. AD Used
