Boonton NJ: Aircraft Radio Corporation, 1929. Wraps. Octavo, blue wrappers,, 22 pp. A 1929 publication by the Aircraft Radio Corporation to "describe briefly the methods and policies of the organization responsible for pioneer developments in radio receivers adapt to meet the exigencies of aircraft service." Briefly describes the research in.....
Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. First Edition. Quarto, full brown sheep, spine in six compartments with gilt and morocco spine label, xxxii, 20, 20, 568 pp, six engraved folding plates. First edition of the first volume, issued by this important early American intellectual societies, containing scholarly articles on a variety.....
Bridgeport, Illinois: Smith Dalrymple, 1922. Octavo, brown illustrated wrappers, 56 pp. A scarce magazine by Smith Dalrymple, a former oil worker in the Illinois oil fields and self proclaimed "Oil Country Poet, Humorist, Author and Publisher." Contains a series of comic poems and stories, including oil industry themed humor. Not.....
London: W. Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1823. First Edition. Octavo, xv, [1] 508 pp, plus [4] pp of ads, disbound, with original rear publisher's board present, lacking front cover. Lacking two leaves after title page (dedication leaf and first leaf of introduction). Rear cover detached, front board lacking, spine.....
East Holden, Maine: Solar Wind, 1974. Revised, Expanded and Updated Edition. 9.5 x 4.25", stapled illustrated wrappers, 40 pp, photographic illustrations. An informational booklet marketing wind powered electric systems to homesteaders. The company, Solar Wind, sold do it yourself kits to those wishing to install a wind turbine and generator.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Octavo, hardcover with dust jacket, 320 pp. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Some small nicks and tears to jacket, mild chipping to DJ spine, soiling to rear panel of DJ, a very good copy.
London: John Murray, 1884. Octavo, 7.75 x 5.25", green cloth with gilt spine lettering, xxi, [1], 458 pp. Sixth Edition, with editions and corrections to 1872 (Twenty-Sixth Thousand). An early edition of this classic. An attractive copy with wear to corners, mild fraying to spine tips, slight discoloration to covers.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Octavo, 8 x 5.25, terra cotta cloth with black decoration, titles to spine gilt. With additions and corrections from Sixth and last English edition. A vintage copy of this classic. Spine gently rolled, pages toned, rubbing and loss of cloth at corners.....
Various Places: 1840s. Octavo, modern black cloth binding, recent endpapers, title page and contents page, presentation inscription from Maggs Bros booksellers, 1996. Includes: An Attempt to Refute the Reasoning of Liebig in Favor of the Salt Radical Theory. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, 1846. 18 pp. Extracted from the American Journal.....
New York: "O Novo Mundo" Printing Office, 1876. Octavo, printed wrappers, 16 pp, folding chart at end. A pamphlet on the "vegetable fibres" exhibited by a Brazilian man at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, offered as an alternative to cotton. The booklet was published at the printing office of.....
Boston: Nichols & Hall, 1870. 8vo, 96 pp, original purple cloth with gilt spine, illustrated. Fading to spine, mild discoloration to covers.
New York: Berminham and Company, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original green cloth with gilt lettering, 647pp. Binding faded and darkened, worn through and frayed at corners and edges, cover front edge dented, spine ends frayed, front hinge cracked. A good copy with covers worn and pages toned.
New York: Norman W. Henley & Co., 1901. Octavo, black cloth, silver lettering to decorative cover, 140 pp. Twelfth edition, illustrated. Staining and smudging to pages, soiling and staining to covers, good.
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Company, 1939. 8vo, hardcover, maroon cloth, in original dust jacket, 648 pp. First edition, first printing. Physics textbook co-authored by Henry DeWolf Smyth of Princeton University, later the author of "Atomic Energy for Military Purposes." In the scarce original dust jacket. Mild soiling to covers.....