The Band Saw Natural Gas Process of Tempering
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania: Emerson, Smith & Co, 1886. 12mo, 20 pp, stapled booklet. Illustrated trade catalog. Minor creasing, toning and foxing, very good.
Science & Technology
Broadside for Sorber's Self-Lubricating Axles
Cincinnati and Washington: Knight Brothers', 1868. Broadside measruing 16 x 9", on blue paper, with illustrations of axles plus text describing the new axle technology patented by Jacob L. Sorber of Greenville, Darke, County, Ohio. Folding creases, a bit of toning along edges, in excellent condition overall.
Course Prerequisite Electronic Switching Systems No. 1 Fundamentals
Bell System Center For Technical Education, Circa 1970s. 4to, unpaginated, orange screw bound wrappers, divided into sections. Course for operating the telephone switchboards operated by AT&T and Bell. Very good, creased, bit soiled.
DU MONT CATHODE RAY OSCILLOGRAPH TYPE 208 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Passaic, New Jersey: Allen B. Dumont Laboratories, Inc, 1940s. Operating Instructions for an important early cathode ray technology. Notations on the front cover mark this as the company file company with the ownership stamps of Harvey Malick. A very good copy with creasing and toning, minor wear.
ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR SCHOOL LABORATORIES
Philadelphia: Palmer Electrical Instrument Co, 1897. Stapled pamphlet, 11pp, illustrations within text. Trade catalog and price list for an electrical apparatus first described in an 1897 article in Electrical World. The apparatus was intended for use in school laboratories to educate about electricity. Soiling and creasing, small tear along margin.....
How to Grow Alfalfa The Wonder Crop
Waterloo, Iowa: Galloway Bros.-Bowman Co., 1912. 62pp, red wrappers. Very good, minor wear and toning.
Instructions For Setting Up And Operating The Westinghouse "Standard" Automatic Engine
Pittsburgh: Press of Pierpont, Siviter, and Co LTD, Circa 1890. 8vo, 26, [2] pp, tan linen backed printed wrappers, illustrations throughout. Ownership inscription to upper margin of front wrapper, San Francisco engineering office stamp to front cover. Creased through center, damp staining to covers, old pencil doodles to rear cover.....
Materials Relating to the Construction of Concrete and Steel Bridges by the Southern Bridge Company
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.....
Natural History Journal of the American Museum of Natural History
New York: 1931. 4to, pictorial cover. Single issue from 1931, with article "The Fate of the Rash Plartybelodon" by Roy Chapman Andrews. Good with covers soiled, separating along upper and lower spine, some creasing.
Original Photographs of the Phillips Electronics Factory
Eindhoven, Netherlands: [1950s]. Eleven black and white photographs, each measuring 9 x 7", each with a handwritten identification and Dutch photographer's stamp on the back. The images depict the Phillips Electronics factory built after WWII in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Shown are employee housing, factory and offices buildings, and more, including several.....
Photograph Album Depicting Bridges Around the World
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......
The Progressive Fish Culturist News and Views From Many Sources on Practical Hatchery Problems
Washington DC: Bureau of Fisheries, US Department of Commerce, 1935. Three issues, May through July 1935, staple bound, each 10pp. Foxed, toned, bit soiled.
REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF PROVIDENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF GAS LIGHT INTO THE CITY. SUBMITTED APRIL 10, 1848
Providence: Joseph Knowles, 1848. 8vo, 23pp, printed front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper, removed from volume. Minor offsetting to cover and toning to pages.
Rhymes of Science: Wise and Otherwise With Illustrations
New York: Industrial Publication Society, 1879. 8vo, 66pp plus 8pp publisher's catalog. According to an ad in the 1879 American Journal of Dental Science, this book was "A small volume of scientific poetry, by O.W. Holmes, Bret Harte, Ingoldsby, Prof Forbes, Prof I.H. McQ Rankine, Hon. R.W. Reynolds, and others.".....
Tale of Two Terriers Crib and Fly
Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co, 1905. 8vo, 156 pp, original cloth decorated with grass pattern, with pictorial onlay, frontispiece illustration and five plates of dog illustrations. Toning to pages, three inch tear through margin of frontispiece, one plate detached, one plate missing, staining to rear cover, else an.....
Three Promotional Booklets Issued by the Okell Well Machinery Corporation of Los Angeles
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.....
Union Oil Company of California Refineries Department Craft Training Divisions I and II Machinist Craft Job Requirement Record
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.....
United States Department of the Interior FIsh and Wildlife Service Wildlife Leaflet [Two Issues]
Chicago: 1943-44. Includes leaflets # 233 (18pp, March 1943) and 257 (10pp, July 1944). 4tos, staple bound, mimeographed. Both relate to snakes--the earlier issue is titled "Poisonous Snakes of the United States", the other "Facts About Snakes." About very good, with toning and soiling.
Great Facts: A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. 8vo, green cloth, 307 pp plus ads, illustrations within text. Bookplate of John Dana Wright of Brunswick Georgia to front pastedown, gift inscription from Wright's uncle dated 1861 to front endpaper Toning and slight foxing to pages, fading to spine, wear to spine.....
AN ANSWER TO “A SHORT REPLY TO ‘A DEFENCE OF THE EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE PRINCIPAL VARIETIES OF FUEL &C.’ BY ONE OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY
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.....
Atomic Warfare Defense Navy Training Courses
Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1955. 8vo, blue wrappers, 182pp. Very good with pages toned, wear along spine.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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.....
You Can Grow Better Roses
Louisville. Stapled booklet, green wrappers, 14 pp. Circa 1930s-40s. By the Consulting Rosarian of the Louisville Chapter of the American Rose Society. Very good, offsetting to covers.
Idyllists of the Countryside: Being Six Commentaries concerning some of those who have Apostrophized the Joys of the Open Air
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1896. 8vo, 263pp, original green cloth. Book on the outdoors by a prominent horticulturalist and nurseryman. A very good, bright copy with bit of toning to pages, area of discoloration along spine.
Fun With Electricity Containing Experiments in Frictional Electricity for Boys And Girls
New York: Thomas M. St. John, 1897. Softcover, blue printed wrappers, 55pp, good condition with soiling, foxing, creasing and toning.