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192547485Chicago: Popular Mechanics Press 1925. Tall thick 8vo. 475 1 pp. 1320 illusts. & diagrams. Illustrated blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering black ruling illustration on front cover in gilt white & black slight shelfwear very minor rubbing to corners still a NF copy w/ former ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this 4th volume in the famed series including sections on how to build almost anything -- encompassing detailed instructions on electric steam boilers motorcycle-driven sleds motorcycle-driven catamaran motorized shop equipment using motorcycles power aero sled how to make an electric hair dryer and much more. Popular Mechanics Press, hardcover
179355802London: Printed for F. Wingrave successor to Mr. Nourse in the Strand 1793. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 2 xxii 172; iv 164 pp. With 27 copper-engraved folding plates some w/ minor creasing dustsoiling to fore-edges a few creases mis-folded 1 w/ small closed tear. Contemporary polished calf red & gilt morocco spine label rebacked minor thumbing & soiling to fore-edges very minor staining to very lower fore-edge of a few signatures endpapers renewed still a VG- copy. Revised edition of these popular works by the well-known Newton proponent including sections on a broad range of engines and devices including applications involving pendulums material strength mills hydrostatics watches time-pieces and physics. Emerson 1701-1782 was an amateur English mathematician and teacher horologist and harpsichord tuner in Hurworth County Durham. He wrote a popular defense of Newton’s Principia a treatise on fluxions calculus as well as constructed clocks and sundials -- one of which still exists. Printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, in the Strand, unknown
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
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
004873Alnwick: H. H. Blair Four pieces of ephemera and three photographs relating to the Alnwick Mechanics' Institute dated between 1869 and 1878. All are lightly worn with evidence of being removed from a scrapbook one of the photographs has a small surface abrasion and tear leading to slight loss of image towards lower right hand corner. The ephemera includes a broadside dated 1869 with list of prize winners for various subjects including chemistry art and mathematics; two handbills about the fiftieth and fifty-fourth anniversary of the Institute; and a handbill about an extension to the building as the class sizes have grown with a list of subscribers. The three photographs are probably c.1874 and probably show the interior of the building during the fiftieth anniversary exhibition. The building still stands is now a Grade 2 listed building and is possibly the oldest surviving purpose-built Mechanics' Institute. Though famously dismissed by Engels in 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' as where "all education is tame flabby subservient to the ruling politics and religion so that for the working-man it is merely a constant sermon upon quiet obedience passivity and resignation to his fate" the Mechanics' Institutes did provide an introduction to education for many who otherwise would not have had any access. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Various. Ephemera. H. H. Blair Paperback
1913mon0004027919Popular Mechanics Press 1913T. hardcover. Good. . General shelfwear to the cover and page edges. Some foxing/ tanning to the pages and page edges. Popular Mechanics Press hardcover
1913GB000YHS4UCI5N01Popular Mechanics Press 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Popular Mechanics Press hardcover
39555Printed check 6" X 2½" Philadelphia PA n.y. ca. 1810. Fine. Boldly printed in black on high-quality laid paper this blank check was issued by this Philly institution founded in 1809. In the early part of the 19th century a number of lending institutions arose to serve the needs of various trades. At top center a steel-engraved decorative scroll surrounds an oval image containing farming and foundry implements visible are a plow wheat shafts iron working tools and standard text with blanks to be filled in: "Philadelphia blank 181blank" "PAY to blank or Bearer" and so on. Decorative border at left and top margins. A lovely relic of this early Philadelphia blank printed during its earliest years. unknown
173542459Paris Imprimerie Royale 1735. 4to. Fine recent marbled boards. Printed titlelabel on frontcover. 6144 pp. and 1 double-page folded engraved plate. Johann B's paper: pp. 1- 91. - Daniel B's papers: pp. 93- 122 and pp. 123-144. A few marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First edition of these prize winning papers by father Jean and son Daniel. - Both papers deals with the cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits relative to the solar equator. - In Daniel's paper he put foreward the hypothesis of the existence of an atmosphere resempling air and rotating around the solar axis resulting in an increasing inclination of the planetary orbits toward the equator of the sun. Daniel was the first importent Newtonian outside Great Britain. The problems faced here by Daniel are treated in Newtonian manner.The publication of these papers by father and son resulted in a controversy between the two forcing Daniel to leave his fathers house. - Poggendorff I:161. </em> hardcover
1956MH-20Tokyo Japan: Daito Art Printing 1956. Classic pictorial text presents the 1956 yearbook of the USS Yorktown known as the "Fighting Lady". The 20000 ton aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 is one of the Navy's most famous fighting ships the fourth ship of the fleet to bear the name. This present ship received eleven battle stars between 1943-1945 and was placed in the reserve fleet in 1946. The ship underwent an extensive modernization program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and was again placed in commission on Dec. 15 1952. After completing two more Far Eastern cruises the ship underwent more intensive technical and structural modifications and was returned to the Far East in 1956 with Air Task Group Four embarked under the command of Captain Emmet O'Beirne and Commander Alvin C. Berg. Includes numerous color and black/white photographs some with accompanying text of the officers crew and equipment of the Air Group Gunnery engineering operations medical dental supply executive fighter squadrons ATG-4 guests etc. complete personnel roster; and photographs taken during the Far East Cruise in Japan Philippines Hong Kong and Hawaii. Prior ownership nameplate label pastedown on front endpaper. Upper front corner seam of spine split and repaired. Minor small scuffs to rear cover. Some rubbing to corners and edges. Decorative endpapers. Scarce. Hard Cover. Very Good. Oblong. Daito Art Printing Hardcover