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2005193702n.p.: AMFA 2005. 2.25 inch diameter pin with AMFA logo at center very good. AMFA unknown books
2012UBENAMA00KHHearst 2012. Fine. Benford Gregory. The Amazing Weapons That Never Were. The editors of Popular Mechanics. NY: Hearst 2012. 199pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Dust jacket folds out into a color poster with imagined weapons from different decades. Hearst hardcover books
199824269NY: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0679433422 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Random House hardcover books
181113307Washington City: Pr. by R.C. Weightman 1811. 8vo. 14 pp. <br><br>Signed by Lewis Sanders and one hundred and twelve others the petition urges the protection of domestic manufactures. Of interest for the study of U.S. commercial policy and protectionism. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24204. Removed from a nonce volume. Pr. by R.C. Weightman unknown books
1913254012Chicago. : Popular Mechanics. 1913. Softcover pictorial wraps. . Back cover creased light wear to covers otherwise a very good copy. . 8vo. Popular Mechanics. paperback books
199971108Ottawa:: Algrove Publishing Limited. Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0921335725 . With 1320 illustrations. A reprint of the 1925 edition. Fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ; 475 pages . Algrove Publishing Limited, hardcover books
191634229New York: The Mechanics & Metals National Bank 1916. 12mo. 1 f. 46 pp. <br><br>Facts figures and personalities for businessmen concerned with doing business in Mexico during the Revolution.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat locates only the copy at Harvard. Discarded as part of the New York Public Librarys "Pamphlet Volume Preservation Project": now stapled and in a library pamphlet binder with cloth spine. Library perforation stamp. Wrappers very brittle and badly chipped. The Mechanics & Metals National Bank hardcover books
192546693Chicago: Popular Mechanics Press 1925. Edition not stated. Octavo 24.5cm; brown publisher's cloth stamped in black; 104pp. Cocked spine; surface wear minor rubbing and dings to boards; mild soiling throughout with foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature on ffep. Very Good.<br/><br/>This is but one volume of many published by Popular Mechanics at the time advertised as using "clear and concise language" and geared towards "anyone who has the slightest mechanical instinct including women". This particular book compiles previous Popular Mechanics articles on carpentry tools and equipment tips techniques and projects helpfully accompanied by b/w photo-illustrations and diagrams. Also includes advertisements for other Popular Mechanics publications. Popular Mechanics Press unknown books
189031598Philadelphia: Worrell & McKenzie 1890. Revised Edition Containing all the Latest Amendments. 32mo 12cm.; original unadorned limp black cloth; 43pp. Top half of spine perished slightly affecting small portion of spine-edge corner of upper cover additional small holes to cloth of upper cover rear cover a bit soiled contents fine. Good or better overall. Illustrated certificate printed on pink stock and accomplished in manuscript bound in certifying that "Bro. T.B. Hoffman Was duly admitted to membership in Clintonville Council No. 478 at a Stated Meeting held the 30th day of March A.D. 1891" signed apparently both in the same hand by G.T. Phipps and E.S. Woody. Unlocated in OCLC as of September 2016 nor have we been able to find any copies of an earlier edition. Worrell & McKenzie unknown books
198220404Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema 1982. Cloth. Very Good. x 2 421-996 pages. Publisher's cloth. Volume 2 of the proceedings ONLY. A sound working copy. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Cloth. A. A. Balkema unknown books
1893S13228Paris: 1893. 1893. Spine title: Arts & Metiers :: Mecanique I. Three books in one possible 2nd volume not known but implied by the spine title. 4to. 208; 324; 542 pp. Numerous mathematical diagrams. Facsimile of original handwritten manuscript. Early quarter maroon calf backed red & black marbled boards; extremities rubbed. Occasional minor tears some repaired foxing. Ownership signature of Garde. Very good. THE ENTIRE TEXT IS PRINTED IN MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE. No person or organization shows their name as being responsible for this deeply scholarly and detailed work on all facets of analytical mechanics. Some possible clues for its origin might possibly be a part of the history of the Ecole Nationale de Cluny Descartes's system of mechanical force or possibly the work of Alfred Flamant engineer & professor at l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees & l'Ecole Centrale who wrote a treatise Mecanique Generale 1888. I could not find a match for the text to identify this item but it is for someone else to discover. See possibly: H. Carteron "L'idee de la force mecanique dans le systeme de Descartes." Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger T. 94 JUILLET A DECEMBRE 1922 pp. 483-511. 1893[?]. hardcover books
185157156Springfield: George W. Wilson printer 1851. 24mo approx. 4¾" x 2¾" pp. 12; original printed yellow wrappers; dampstain at the bottom corner; all else very good. Organized October 1 1849. Contains press notices financial reports and statistical summaries. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> George W. Wilson, printer unknown books
185730293Chicago: John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanics' Institute 1857. Pages 293 - 372 4 advt pp plus eight full-page engravings frontis. Original printed decorated and illustrated green wrappers. Bound in later marbled cloth with gilt-lettered spine title light scuffing. Very Good.<br/><br/> Only five issues of this magazine were published all in 1857. This one has engraved illustrations of Wolf's Point; the Foster House; the Metropolitan Hotel; Hillsdale College in Hillsdale Michigan; the Chicago Orphan Asylum; George Foster; George Gray; and Jason Gurley. The text includes the History of Chicago continued from earlier issue; biographies of Foster Gray and Gurley self-made Chicagoans all; and several articles one on the western stage coach another entitled 'Aurora Illustrated' with text illustrations the history of Adrian Michigan an article on 'Life in the West' and more. Interesting advertisements complete the issue.<br/>Lomazow A646. Not in Mott or Ante-Fire Imprints. See 104 Eberstadt 140. John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanics' Institute unknown books
186737280New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office 1867. 60 25- advertisements 3 blanks pp. Original printed yellow wrappers some extremity chipping. Originally stitched now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance Gentilly Road. Several institutional stamps scattered foxing and dusting. The final 25 pages are advertisements from various commercial enterprises mostly from New Orleans. Good.<br/><br/> The Report announces Louisiana's entry into the post-War New South displaying its "improvements" in agriculture and the "Mechanic Arts." The advertisements alone demonstrate impressively Louisiana's determined recovery from the War. <br/> Officers Directors and Committee Members are listed after the title page. The Fair's President was the merchant I.N. Marks. "As indicated by his name ISAAC N. MARKS is of Hebrew descent and is a distinguished representative of his highly favored race but contrary to the usual customs of that people he has adopted the Christian faith. This change in his creed is due to the independent manner of thought which has characterized him from his boyhood and has ever made him master of his personality in the domain of both his sentiments and business. Mr. Marks is a native of South Carolina having been born at Charleston on the 5th of May 1817. At the age of nineteen he came to New Orleans and linked his career with that of his adopted city then lacking much of the greatness and grandeur which to-day places her a queen among cities" online 'Genealogy Trails History Group Orleans Parish <br/> The pamphlet records Louisiana's first Fair after the War's end in late November 1866. An essay explains its establishment and inauguration in late November 1866. "The mellow light of an Indian Summer's sun shone down." The various exhibits are listed followed by Marks's Address lamenting the "long and disastrous war leaving in its desolated path ruin upon every side; agriculture paralyzed; commerce languishing; a well-regulated labor system grown venerable in its usefulness and its humane tendencies suddenly and violently destroyed." Other Addresses call for immigration manufactures agricultural improvements and modernization.<br/>Not in Thompson which records later fairs of this Association. OCLC 24446596 1- Historic New Orleans Collection as of December 2020 but not collating the 25-page advertisement section. Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office unknown books
57701Providence: January 30 1837. 4to approx. 10" x 8 5 leaves of ruled stationery with manuscript in ink on rectos only in a neat secretarial hand bound with blue silk ribbon; previous folds very light staining otherwise near fine. Interesting chapter in the historical evolution of the Providence school system. The Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers was politically involved in city affairs as early as 1799 when "the want of a better system of school instruction being deeply felt by the members a memorial was prepared and presented to the General Assembly urging the establishment of free schools throughout the State and reminding that body that liberty and security under a republican form of government depend on a general diffusion of knowledge amoug the people" A History of Public Education in Rhode Island: from 1636 to 1876 byThomas B. Stockwell 1876 In 1837 the association under President George Baker and Samuel Tingley Jr. Secretary whose names appear on page four presented the petition: "Your memorialists have been struck with one fact . that the instruction of youth in the public schools is a heavy tax upon the middling classes without an adequate return as they do not participate in the benefit of this public instruction. This argument which is evidently weighty in the present condition of these schools would be destroyed if they were raised to the condition desired by your memorialists. "Why is it that the middling classes do not become participants in this instruction There is evidently but one reason. They perceive that the crowded state of the schools alone would prevent proper attention to the pupil; and they are aware that with the small sum which the instructors receive it is difficult to procure and retain the services of competent persons to fill the station. But let the schools be made so numerous that the scholars may receive as much attention as they do in the private schools and let the salaries be so large as to induce men of equal ability to take charge of them and that which is now considered as a tax would then be viewed as an alleviation of one of the heaviest burdens put upon the middling classes. "Your honorable body have no doubt . perceived how far we are behind our neighboring cities in this particular. Whilst they are constantly aiming at perfection in their free school system we have been at a stand or retrograding . To remedy the defect in our present system your memorialists would suggest that a grade of schools be established between the primary and writing schools for reading writing and arithmetic only the design of which is to give a thorough instruction in these branches to those children whose parents need their services at as early an age as twelve or thirteen years and who under the present arrangement are compelled to leave school with a very superficial knowledge of those branches which are so necessary for obtaining a livelihood in any business . To effect an essential reform in our public school system great expense must necessarily be incurred; and your memorialists who represent a large portion of the heads of families of the city would meet this increased expense with hearty encouragement." The document is signed "George Baker President. Samuel Tingley Jr. Secretary." Page 5 is entitled "Resolutions" and includes a list of seven statements relative to the Association's petition beginning with "Resolved that no subject can be of more importance to the inhabitants of this city than the education of the rising generation" and that "the members of this association were the pioneers in the establishment of the Public Schools." "This petition or memorial was referred to a committee who subsequently reported a plan for the improvement of the schools; but the provisions of it were deemed unsatisfactory. A second plan was presented comprising twelve primary eight intermediate and four upper schools. With these modifications the bill was returned to the common council who refused to concur. After frequent meetings and protracted debates with no unity the board of aldermen devised a plan embracing ten primary schools six intermediate schools two upper schools and two schools for colored children. This when presented to the common council was voted down by a large majority and without any final decision the municipal year closed. The feeling on the school question was now stronger than ever" Stockwell. <br/><br/> January 30, 1837 unknown books
