1920s. A collection of six black and white photos, three measuring between 6 x 8" and 8 x 10", plus three smaller format images. Together with a letter and envelope from the Southern Bridge Company in Alabama, to H.S. Haynes of Marshall, North Carolina, discussing the construction of a bridge.....
1880s-1900s. Album binding containing 112 albumen, silver gelatin and cyanotype photographs of bridges around the world, preceded by a manuscript index listing each photo by photographer, title and number. The album contains images of prominent bridges, mainly in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, as well as a......
Providence: Joseph Knowles, 1848. 8vo, 23pp, printed front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper, removed from volume. Minor offsetting to cover and toning to pages.
Los Angeles: 1925. 4tos, stapled booklets, [12], 15, and 35 pp, advertising three different classes of water and oil well drilling machines produced by the company, profusely illustrated, with many full page photographic illustrations of machines as well as oil wells in California, Arizona, and Nevada. In good condition with.....
California: Prepared by Machinist Training Committees at Oleum and Los Angeles Refineries, 1941. Quarto, vi, 86 pp, black wrappers with title label. A large mimeographed manual containing six pages of descriptive text on job requirements for machinists at the Oil Company, followed by lengthy checklists of job skills and requirements.....
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1828. . 8 x 5”, 16pp, disbound. Rubberstamp of the Lyceum of Natural History. Toned, margin of title page chipped. Generally Very Good. The third installment in a pamphlet controversy related to Bull’s 1826 experiments with coal and wood fuel. Here, Bull discusses the merits of Lehigh.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Octavo, 432 pp, original green cloth. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on page facing title page. Pencil owner inscription to title page. In fair condition with dampstaining to pages (mainly to margins and text block edges), page waviness, foxing to.....
New York: Thomas M. St. John, 1897. Softcover, blue printed wrappers, 55pp, good condition with soiling, foxing, creasing and toning.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. 8vo, pp. 416-446, stapled booklet "Reprinted for private circulation from Background to Evolution in Africa edited by Walter W. Bishop and J. Desmond Clark Proceedings of a Symposium held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July-August, 1965. This copy inscribed "With Compliments M.D. Leakey" to upper.....
Boston: Nichols & Hall, 1870. 8vo, 96 pp, original purple cloth with gilt spine, illustrated. Fading to spine, mild discoloration to covers.
Worcester: 1885. 8pp, wrappers. Very good, minor creasing and offsetting, hint of soiling.
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.....
Columbia, S.C. The State Company, 1916. Small 8vo, blue cloth with gilt title, 190pp. Early treatise on liquid fuel production. A very good, bright copy, with minor wear to covers and a bit of soiling.
Philadelphia: Lea & Carey, 1827. Octavo, 91, 1 pp, uncut. Modern binding of quarter leather with marbled boards. Scientific work by American Geologist Lardner Vanuxem. Toning to pages, chipping along margins, especially of title page and first three leaves, owner inscription to title page, pencil notes to lower margin of.....