‎Ingenierie‎

‎(power engineering)‎

‎SEMINAR ON POWER GENERATION MANAGEMENT AND STRUCTURES IN EAST AND WEST - PROCEEDINGS BERLIN 26-28 JUNE 1991‎

‎Paris 1991 International Energy Agency. Lg.4to. 459pp. original printed wraps. Ex-university library with usual markings. VG 2x4 inch chip from rear cover. . paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : a61802

‎(The Department of Highways Office of Planning, Design and Engineering)‎

‎Washington's Bridges Historic and Modern; a Pictorial Report on Highway Bridges and Structures in the District of Columbia‎

‎Plastic Comb. Very Good. FIRST EDITION Washington DC: D.C. Department of Highways 1956. Tall softcover in spiral-bound pictorial covers. 8 1/2 x 11"; 112 pages illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. Rare photographic survey dating to the Civil War but mostly a study of current situation at the time by DC's Department of Highways. Includes some technical detail along with general explanatory text. Very good overall condition; no ownership marking NOT EX-LIBRARY. frnc paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : MD-L50N-4FKA

‎(Walters Engineering).‎

‎Nevada Rural Communities Water & Waste Water Plan. 1972. Volume I. Carson City. Douglas County. Storey County.‎

‎Reno.: Walters Engineering. 1972. First edition. . Soft cover. . Fine copy. As new. 4to. Illustrated. Folding plates maps. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Walters Engineering. paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 221656

‎=Coates, Rodney F. W.‎

‎Underwater Acoustic Systems‎

‎188 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Provides a comprehensive overview of applied underwater acoustics which will be of value to students, researchers and engineers interested in exploiting sound transmission in the sea for scientific or technical purposes. Provides an introduction to transducer design and the use of arrays of transducers to establish preferred propagation patterns." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book‎

‎[ LA SALLE DE L'ETANG Simon Philibert de ]‎

‎PRAIRIES ARTIFICIELLES, ou Moyens de perfectionner l'Agriculture dans les terreins [sic] secs & stériles de toutes les Provinces, surtout en Champagne, & de l'encourager dans tout le Royaume. Seconde édition augmentée‎

‎A Bruxelles, Et se vend à Paris Chez Desaint & Saillant, Libraires 1758 in 12 (17x10,5) 1 volume reliure pleine basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches teintées rouge, 106 pages, et un feuillet d'errata non chiffré. Ou Moyens de perfectionner l'Agriculture dans les terreins [sic] secs & stériles de toutes les Provinces, surtout en Champagne, & de l'encourager dans tout le Royaume. Seconde édition augmentée : 1°/ D'un éclaircissement sur quelques articles; 2°/ D'une Dissertation sur l'exportation des Bleds; 3°/ D'une Réponse à une Objection. M. Simon Philibert de La Salle de l'Etang, 1700-1765. Bon exemplaire‎

‎Très bon Couverture rigide‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 40362

‎[AGRICOLA] DIBNER, Bern.‎

‎Agricola on metals. The age of technology waited for better and moreabundant metals; it arrived so much sooner because Agricola published DeRe Metallica, a mining and metallurgical classic.‎

‎1958 Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library, 1958. Burndy Library Publication, No. 15. 273 x 211 mm. 4to. 128 pp. Port. of Herbert Clark Hoover, 72 figs., numerous vignettes and decorative initials, bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.Facsimile illustrations from the original edition of 'De Re Metallica', with an essay on the work.‎

‎A mining and metallurgical classic.Book Condition: Very Good. Remise de 20% pour toutes commandes supérieures à 200 €‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 10851

‎[Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (Chairman, JA Cranwell)] J A‎

‎Amalgamated Engineering Union 1851 England 1852 Australia: Souvenir 25th Anniversary A.E.U. Australia 1920-1945‎

‎Sydney: Amalgamated Engineering Union 1946. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 379pp. b/w pls. illusts. index Signed by J. Cranwell on front end paper. Nice copy in a rather chipped dust jcket Amalgamated Engineering Union, hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 125398

‎[AUTOMOBILES -- ENGINEERING]. [LORD, Frank Howard (Ed)].‎

‎Motor Vehicle Digest Cover title: Engine Parts: magneto gasoline pumps. . . ; Engine Parts: water pumps radiators mascots ornaments; Engine Parts: Carburetors air cleaners filters. . . ; Engine Parts: Carburetors; Electrical Systems & Parts: Spark plugs ignition apparatus. . . ; Internal Combustion Engines: Diesel or modified gasoline kerosene. . . ; Internal Combustion Engines: Submarine diesel engines two-cycle engines sleeve valve motors. . . ; Final Drives or Transmissions; Elements of General Application: Gears universal joints. . . ; Steering: Axles knuckles gears. . . ; Steering - Steering Gear: Roadwheels tires springing. . . ; Springing - Pneumatic Suspension. . . .‎

‎Flint & Detroit MI: General Motors 1903-1938. Twelve vols. Oblong folio. 19 x 12.5 x approx. 2-3 in. per vol. 30 linear inches. 251; 278; 228; 84; 233; 312; 264; 140; 158; 160; 208; 212 leaves 11 of 12 vols. unnumbered. all silver gelatin Photostatic photo print positives on inconsistent quality papers either due to processing or washing process after being shot with the Rectigraph camera reproducing through a prism an image some w/ borders all featuring nine 4 x 6 in. data cards on recto of each leaf all identified w/in the original images some from photographs containing well over 20000 illustrations diagrams photographs and technical details roughness to some of the fore-edges photo textblock not cut or trimmed to size so rough cut at fore-edges occasional lifting from old wicking at fore-edges faint tidemark to lower fore-edges of a couple volumes. Uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon-coloured calf over black pebbled cloth on beveled boards Broun-Green Co. Safety Minute Book McMillan Patented post-binders with three metal posts and ring locking mechanism all leaves perforated at gutter margin for loading into the binders decorated endpapers thumb tabs at fore-edges demarcating the front of the binder gilt lettered title stamped on front covers of all some scuffing edgewear couple hinges starting or weakened occasional scuffing to back covers or to spines former owner’s labels attached to spines of a couple vols. still a VG set originally acquired by a collector when most of Harrah’s automobiles and other material were auctioned off in three separate sales in the mid-1980’s after efforts to preserve the collection failed following the acquisition of Harrah’s casino and hotel empire by Holiday Inns with their ownership stamps on flyleaves. Since Harrah mechanics had to maintain a fleet of over 1425 automobiles many of them exceedingly rare early Brass Era and foreign models these volumes provided invaluable mechanical details. This immense and unique reference set reproduces over 22000 well-illustrated index research cards on 2525 leaves prepared by General Motors for their engineering and technical staff tracking and recording the myriad of manufacturers and suppliers for automobiles trucks aircraft and marine craft from the Brass Era through the Great Depression. These prepared by the GM in-house technical periodical “Motor Vehicle Digest†provide essential visual and technical historical data for the development patent history engineering inventions of most of the major and minor national and international automobile manufacturers and parts suppliers for over three decades prior to World War II. Basically serving as the automotive industry’s equivalent of the National Union Catalogue or Acta Sanctorum these gigantic volumes trace the origins mechanical development devices and equipment on 1000’s of different manufacturers most having been lost now to the passage of time and the many shake-ups during the 20th Century. Not only do they serve as original reference from contemporary technical journals in German French Italian Norwegian Dutch and Danish all neatly translated into English but also offer a means to visually trace the development of the automobile. The four “Engine Parts†volumes include extensive sections on magnetos gasoline pumps accessory drive chains camshaft gears water pumps pistons crank shafts water pumps fuel systems fuel gauges carburetors throttle controls air filters fuel injection and even the 1937 introduction of the Down Draft Carburetor. Of notable interest is the extensive section on radiator badges or mascots and Motometer ornaments for the radiators including winged Gods & Goddesses animals and grille ornaments. The myriad of manufacturers represented is dizzying ranging from Mercedes to Packard Bugatti to Lejeuene Wolsely to Zenith with Napier Thornycroft Solex Rateau Mercedes Rickenbacker Stromberg & Locomobile thrown in. Electrical systems transmissions gears steering systems suspension shocks and more are all minutely detailed. The “Roadwheels†volume encompasses a wide range of companies and developments attempting to deal with the rough roads prior to the Good Roads Movement including spring types with internal springs against the axle tension types compression types and those specifically developed for electric vehicles and companies building electric motors for each wheel hub. The two “Internal Combustion Engines†volumes encompass not only 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines for automobiles but also diesel or modified engines stationery engines submarine diesel engines ocean liner and locomotive engines rotary engines for aircraft and marine applications two-cycle or two-stroke engines developed for early motorcycles and motorcycle cars and even the innovative sleeve valve motors from Willys-Knight. Engine manufacturers range from Delahaye to Bentley Buda to Humboldt-Deutz along with Mianus Alpha Northill out of Los Angeles California Coventry-Victor Tuxham Plenty & Son and Brooke. The “Final Drives or Transmissions†volume examines drive axles front brakes and other systems for Tatra Bugatti Benze & Lorelei while “Electrical Systems & Parts†details nearly 35 years of spark plug priming plug and ignition apparatus from early Brass Era and efforts of Champion Milla Strumpell Helwig Mosler and others. Interestingly the volumes focus primarily on GM competitors inventions technology & development and much of the data drawn from often obscure contemporary automakers’ journals would have proven invaluable especially as before the internet global searches and other digital reference guides there would have been nearly no comparable cross-reference to foreign technology. Lord 1858-1929 was a Princeton alumni having graduated 1879 worked in cattle ranches and gold mining in Arizona spent several years as an insurance broker in New York and Spain worked for the US Secret Service and served during the Spanish-American War in the Army Commissary Dept. in Cuba. After working in advertising and newspapers in Seattle and assistant to the Univ. of Washington he was contracted by General Motors to oversee and compile their in-house “Motor Vehicle Digest†until his death. The GM MVD should not be confused with the many different “Motor Vehicle Digest†laws and subject volumes issued by various states in the first half of the 20th Century and the only extant set of the original in-house printed journal NOT these unique volumes is recorded at the General Motors Institute Collection in Flint MI. The Rectigraph Co. was bought out by Haloid in 1937 and later became Haloid-Xerox in 1958 and their process was also used by Photoclerk and Dexigraph of Remington Rand. These still offer essential technical reference as frequently many of the magazines in the collection have never been digitized for use or are largely unavailable other than through in-person visit to special collections libraries or museum references. No copies located in Worldcat the GM Institute or Henry Ford; See: George P. Hanley The Collection of Industrial History The Society of Automotive Historians Newsletter Issue No. 63 June 1979 pp. 3-5; Frank Howard Lord Obituary The Princeton Alumni Weekly Vol. XXX No. 1 1929 pp. 40-43. General Motors, hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 60341

‎[bookplate of Luigi Palma Di Cesnola]‎

‎Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World By the President of the United States on Bedlow's Island New York Thursday October 28 1886‎

‎New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1886 1887. First Edition . Blue Cloth Gilt. Fine. 9 1/8" Tall. Frontispiece. 63 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Frontispiece Is A Reproduction Of The Engraved Invitation To The Inauguration Ceremony. Contains An Account Of The Proceedings The Addresses In Full And A Brief History Of The Statue. Bookplate Of U S Medal Of Honor Winner Palma Di Cesnola Who Later Became U S Consul In Cyprus 1865 - 1877. He Undertook Excavations There And His Archaeological Collection Formed The Basis Of The Metropolitan Museum's Large Collection Of Greek Antiquities. Book Is Near Fine Gilt Still Brilliant Covers Clean Light Chipping To Front Free Endpaper Contents Fine. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton & Co. (1886) hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 024456

‎[Canada - Bâtiment - Génie industriel - 1931]‎

‎Specification Data 1931 Edition. : grouped catalogue of building and engineering equipment indexed according to trades‎

‎Toronto, Canada, Specification Data , Limited 1931 In-4 29 x 23,5 cm. Cartonnage éditeur souple percaline verte, dos lisse, titre doré sur le premier plat, XXXVI-305-74 pp., abondamment illustré. Exemplaire en bon état.‎

‎Texte en anglais. Bon état d’occasion‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 111275

‎[Chiarugi, Vincenzo].‎

‎Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio. Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789.‎

‎4to. LXXVIII, (2), 416, (84) pp., including 27 letterpress tables. With engraved armorial title vignette and 9 (instead of 10) engraved folding plates. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards with giltstamped calf spine label. First edition of the pioneering regulations for two Florence hospitals, marking "the first appearance in print of [Chiarugi's] landmark reforms in the humane treatment of the mentally ill" (Garrison/M.). - In 1774 Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany (later Emperor Leopold II) promulgated Europe's first law concerning the hospitalization of persons recognized as being insane, and several years later he undertook to build a new hospital for the mentally ill. In 1875 the young physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, who had studied at the University of Pisa and then at the hospital of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, was given responsibility to plan the new hospital of San Bonifacio, which opened in 1788. The following year the regulations of the hospital were published, together with the statutes of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. The regulations reflect Chiarugi's pioneering attitude towards the treatment of the insane: "A detailed history was required for each patient admitted to the hospital. The hospital was built to meet high hygienic standards, men were separated from women, and the rooms and furniture offered full protection to the patients [...] under no circumstances could force be used on patients, and the only methods of restriction allowed were strait jackets and strips of reinforced cotton, in order to prevent impairment in the patient's circulation" (Mora). - The fine plates, carried out by G. Cecchi, G. Salvetti and others, include plans of the premises of both hospitals, images of the kitchen and heating system, and views of the facade, as well as an organisational chart for both hospitals combined. - Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Extremities and spine-label slightly rubbed; small defect to vellum at lower spine. Front view of the Bonifazio hospital with a larger tear; several plates show small tears, occasionally affecting image. Occasional light foxing throughout. A good copy of this landmark work. Garrison/M. 4920.2. Norman 474. G. Mora, "Vincenzo Chiarugi", in: Journal of the History of Medicine 14 (1959), p. 431.‎

‎[Department of Civil and Mining Engineering Michigan College of Mines]‎

‎Topographical Drawing Notes‎

‎Houghton Michigan: G. P. Schubert 1926. Third Printed Edition. Publisher's Green Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good. A Very Good Book Presumed Issued without a Dust Jacket. Book is bumped and rubbed to extremities. Cloth is a toned and a bit scuffed. Front pastedown and flyleaf have some pencil notations. Text is unmarked. All plates present as are instructional materials included in envelope at rear paste down. Gutter is visible for last few leaves binding is otherwise tight and square. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. ii 3-82pp. Laid-In Supplemental Material. G. P. Schubert unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 1236

‎[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others.‎

‎The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and 172. London, Macmillan, 1953.‎

‎4to (180 x 256 mm). 5 issues, 222 pp. altogether. Extracts bound together in a single volume without original wrappers. Modern red cloth with giltstamped cover title. All the five issues of "Nature" in which, between February and October 1953, the crucial papers were published that revealed to the world the double-helix structure of DNA. Some of the various authors were collaborators, others competitors, and while the credit for the discovery is today almost entirely attached to the names of Crick and Watson, their breakthrough depended on experimental work done by all the other scientists whose relevant papers were published in the same journal and are also here included. - The papers comprise, individually: - a) Pauling, L. and Corey, R. B. Structure of the Nucleic Acids (Nature 171, No. 4347, 21 Feb. 1953, p. 346). - b) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (No. 4356, 25 April 1953; p. 737f.). - c) Wilkins, M. H. F., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (p. 738-740). - d) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. E. Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (p. 740f.). - e) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (No. 4361, 30 May 1953, p. 964-967). - f) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. G. Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate (Vol. 172, No. 4369, 25 July 1953, p. 156f.). - g) Wilkins, M. H. F., Seeds, W. E., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid (No. 4382, 24 Oct. 1953, p. 759-762). - Together these papers provide the single most important advance in biology since Darwin's theory. The first, by America's leading chemist of his age, Linus Pauling, ultimately contributed least because Pauling's theory erroneously suggested a triple-helix structure. "Instead, victory fell to an unlikely quartet of scientists in England who didn't work as a team, often weren't on speaking terms, and were for the most part novices in the field" (Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 487f.). These were the American wunderkind James Watson and his older colleage Francis Crick at Cambridge; the brilliant but often overlooked Rosalind Franklin (with her student Raymond Gosling), working at King's College London; and the New Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins, also at King's but who communicated to the competition at Cambridge Franklin's key findings - particularly, an X-ray photograph showing the DNA molecule's basic shape and dimensions, which provided Watson and Crick with the crucial clue. It was by then known that "DNA had four chemical components - called adenine, guanine, cytosine and thiamine - and that these paired up in particular ways. By playing with pieces of cardboard cut into the shapes of molecules, Watson and Crick were able to work out how the pieces fit together. From this they made a Meccano-like model - perhaps the most famous in modern science - consisting of metal plates bolted together in a spiral, and invited Wilkins, Franklin and the rest of the world to have a look. Any informed person could see at once that they had solved the problem. It was without question a brilliant piece of detective work" (Bryson, p. 491f.). Less than two months later, their paper, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", appeared in "Nature". Franklin's own paper, in the same issue, shows the now-famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA fiber and pointedly concedes that "our general ideas are not inconsistent with the model proposed by Watson and Crick in the preceding communication" (vol. 171, p. 741). - For the discovery of the DNA double helix, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology. Franklin had passed away four year earlier at the age of 37, a victim of the X-rays to which she had over-exposed herself in her work. - Tightly bound and in excellent condition throughout.‎

‎[ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING -- PHOTOGRAPHIC CATALOGUE].‎

‎Hewittic Transformers. Salesman sample catalogue with 5 silver gelatin photographs of electrical transformers.‎

‎Walton-on-Thames: Hewittic Electric Co. Ltd. ca. 1935. 4to. 5 leaves unnumbered thick paper stock eath with 5 original photographs mounted of Hewittic Transformers with inventory number and typed explanation below sized 6 x 8 in. Original blue textured softcover split-pin binder black lettering on front cover yapp edges slight sunning to fore-edges still VG copy. First edition of this scarce salesman’s sample catalogue of Hewittic Transformers installed in the at the Tir John Power Station. The Tir John Power Station near Swansea was a super coal-fired power station producing electricity for the newly-created National grid and was built by the Swansea Corporation to help relieve massive unemployment resulting from the impact of the Great Depression. At the time it was the largest engineering project in Wales and the largest power station in Britain operating until 1976. Hewittic Electric Co., Ltd., paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 52151

‎[ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING -- PHOTOGRAPHIC CATALOGUE].‎

‎Transformateurs. Societe Savoisienne. Salesman sample catalogue with 7 silver gelatin photographs of transformer equipment. . . .‎

‎Aix-les-Bains France: Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques ca. 1935. 4to. 7 leaves unnumbered thick paper stock with 7 original silver gelatin photographs tipped-in sized 7 x 9.5 in. with explanatory text dittoed on verso of leaf. Textured brown softcover split-pin binder embossed & raised decorative blue lettering & company logo on front cover yapp edges minor creasing to corners shelfwear still a NF copy. First edition of this scarce photographic salesman’s sample catalogue including the transformers and electrical transmission equipment produced by Savoisienne the largest French manufacturer of such equipment at the time. The photographs show one of their large Three-Phase Transformers installed at a substation in the Netherlands at Kembs France on the Rhine below Strasbourg a large Single phase transformer installed in The Hague the Netherlands another Three-Phase Transformer installed in Rotterdam as well as other industrial electrical transformers. Three phase electrical transformers are a necessary requirement for large industrial production because they handle the heavy electrical loads more smoothly and efficiently and can provide 173% more power than the two conductors of a a single-phase system. Savoisienne Societe de constructions electriques was founded in 1921 by Leon Egger and Claudius Forest two French electrical engineers whose company quickly expanded into specializing in transformer and electrical generating equipment for heavy industry between the World Wars. By the mid-1930s their massive production plant at Aix-les-Bains covered over 12500 square meters and would continue to grow into the 21st century as the Alstom Company and then Areva T. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Yves Bouvier Without and with the State: the French Electrical Manufacturers in a Global Economy Session D4. Societe Savoisienne de constructions electriques, paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 52150

‎[Engineering]; [Mechanics]‎

‎Appleton's Dictionary of Machines Mechanics Engine-Work and Engineering: Designed for Practical Working Men and Those Intended for the Engineering Profession‎

‎New 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

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000013458

‎[ENGINEERING -- MECCANO]. [HORNBY, Frank].‎

‎How to make models and toys with Meccano; Together With: Meccano kit; Meccano accessory outfit containing all the parts necessary to convert. . . 3A.‎

‎Liverpool England: Meccano Ltd. ca. 1915. One oblong 8vo. instruction book 10 x 7 in. 98 pp. Over 150 text woodcut illustrations diagrams & charts. Recent black cloth colour plate mounted front cover some interior tears edgewear chipping to corners still a G copy; together with two Meccano engineering education outfits which appear to have 90% of the necessary pieces distributed between the two including 25 hole angle strips Sector Plates Axles Cranks Pulleys brass nuts & bolts in Box 3a spring original tool screwdriver tool angle rods clips and much more. Both kits with wooden boxes covered in black paper colour plates on upper cover of lids lid to kit 3a lacking back piece colour plate on inner side of lid of first kit minor edgewear some chipping rubbing still a G set. A fascinating pair of original pre-World War I Meccano mechanical engineering kits which were developed and invented by Frank Hornby in 1898. He developed the original kits to teach his sons how to build the cranes that fascinated them when watching ships being unloaded in Liverpool. The first Meccano factory opened in 1907 and in 1910 Hornby published his first book on using the pieces of education Hornby System of Mechanical Demonstration. The instruction book with these kits explains how to build cranes the Eiffel Tower Ferris Wheels Bridges Lighthouses many of them requiring substantial accessory kits which were marketed and sold by the Meccano Company. The company continues to operate until this day in France from their factory in Calais and in 2000 they bought the Erector brand. Meccano, Ltd., hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 46618

‎[EXPLOITATIONS MINIERES] REGNAULD D'EPERCY (Pierre-Ignace)‎

‎Projet de décret sur les mines et minières proposé à l'Assemblée nationale.‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791 in-8, 18 pp., dérelié.‎

‎Important projet sur les demandes de concessions minières : limites des concessions accordées par le département, durée d'exploitation, etc. Le titre II du projet de décret est consacré aux mines de fer.Martin & Walter, IV, 28885. - - ACTUELLEMENT EN CONGÉS, DE RETOUR LE 17 AOÛT - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 201764

‎[Farsi spiritual tales].‎

‎Persian illuminated manuscript. [North-Western India?, ca. 1860s].‎

‎4to (167 x 215 mm). Persian illuminated manuscript on paper. 31 ff., written on both sides, 11 lines per extensum. Black ink with rubricated titles, written in a thin and very cursive Indian nastaliq style tending already to perform the "shorthand" writing infractions of the shekasteh ("broken") variety. With a coloured headpiece and 10 full-page coloured illustrations. Blindstamped red leather with reinforced spine. A prose work of anecdotal moral tales, most likely from North-Western India (now Pakistan) from the mid or third quarter of the 19th century. Untitled and without a colophon or marginalia, beginning abruptly, it appears to be incomplete, despite the conventional presence of an - apparently overpainted - headpiece of the sarlawh type. - Unlike similar Persian allegorical prose works, whose tales revolve mostly around allegorical animal characters, this narrative, oriented towards moral and spiritual instruction, appears to be inspired on the one hand by Saadi’s gently ironic works such as "Gulestan". Divided into several chapters, or "abvab", it focuses on the moral analysis of human deeds and intentions, informed by Indian Sufi spiritual tradition. - The scene is set in an exquisitely Indian historical context: the text mentions a "raj" (Hindu king), and the Mughal Empire also make an appearance with the protagonist of the final tale, Alamgir Padshah (the "World-Seizing Emperor", likely the Mughal ruler Awrangzeb, who reigned 1658-1707), encountering a certain Mard-i murtaz (a spiritually well-versed man). The manuscript is embellished by full-page miniatures, one depicting a hunting scene, another illustrating a valiant horseman slaying a dragon-like monster. The illustrations are colourful and lively, if conventional in their disposition of the human figures and landscape before a background without depth.‎

‎[Freud, Sigmund].‎

‎A collection of 82 works from the library of Sigmund Freud. Various places, 1908-1937.‎

‎76 volumes, mostly offprints or articles removed from journals, bound in private wrappers or in the original printed wrappers. Mostly 8vo but including a few specimens in small folio. An ensemble of 82 works from the library of Sigmund Freud, comprising roughly half of the known corpus now in private hands. In his census, the medical historian Gerhard Fichtner established the number of works from Freud's former library now in private ownership at only 166 works, or some 4 percent of his former collection of 3725 titles, the vast majority of which (more than 3,400 books) are today preserved by the Freud Museum in London and the Health Sciences Library in New York. Regarding the privately owned works, "it is noteworthy that Freud (during both the Viennese and London time) bestowed upon Eva Rosenfeld, a friend of Anna Freud, 25 important early items from his library. Amongst the privately owned volumes are also some that surfaced in recent years in the second-hand market. They are predominantly offprints, whose dedications show they once belonged to Freud's library and, as a rule, carry the partially erased stamp of the Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium Vienna. They must have arrived long before Freud's emigration in this library, which was seized and destroyed by the Nazis. Did the erasure of the stamp help to save these items, or did it disguise unauthorized possession? They come from the estate of a German analyst" (Davies/Fichtner, pp. 17f.). Indeed, the nature of some of these erasures - rather constituting overpastings with near-contemporary typed transcriptions of those parts of the text obscured by the stamp (as in David Baumgart's article on Spinoza's image in German and Jewish thought) - would strongly suggest the former reason: such an overpasting would arguably have sufficed to conceal the items' provenance from a cursory examination in 1938, but would not at all be helpful to a collector wishing to obscure a third party's title. - The present ensemble includes articles by 40 different authors from a range of disciplines, including Hugo Bergmann, Eugen Bleuler, Carl Clemen, Josef Friedjung, Heinrich Gomperz, Gustav Hans Graber, Jakob Kläsi, Otto Pötzl, and Isidor Sadger. Two specimens preserve the author's inscription to Freud (by Pötzl); others contain autograph corrections by the author (Sadger). Eighteen items show traces of a removed stamp or inscription. Paper often brittle; some wrappers a little rubbed or chipped, but on the whole very well preserved. Acquired from a Belgian private collection. Detailed list available on request. Cf. Davies/Fichtner (eds.), Freud's Library. A Comprehensive Catalogue (Tübingen/London, 2006).‎

‎[INSTITUTE OF TYPOGRAPHY ENGINEERING RESEARCH].‎

‎TYPECOSMIC. Digital Type Collection. Volume 1: Sans Serif. Volume 2: Serif.‎

‎Cologne Evergreen 1994. 2vols. xx790798pp. 4to. Original boards lightly rubbed. Previous owners name in ink to ffe. A very good copy. Cologne, Evergreen, 1994. hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 203598

‎[Karpe, Franz Karl, österreichischer Mediziner (1784-1837)].‎

‎Theoretische Medicin [...] IV. V. Theil, enthaltend Diätetik, Materia medica u. Receptirkunst. Innsbruck, 1834.‎

‎Deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. (1) S., 3 w. SS., 294, (18), 311 SS., eine w. Seite, (4) SS., 2 w. Bll. Ungebundene Bögen. 4to (190 x 230 mm). Saubere Vorlesungsmitschrift der einführenden medizinischen Lehrveranstaltung an der Universität Innsbruck, gehalten von Franz Karl Karpe, der von 1818 bis zu seinem Tod Professor für Theoretische Medizin bzw. 1823/24 und 1833 Rektor der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck war. Im Vorlesungsverzeichnis für das Jahr 1834 scheint die Lehrveranstaltung auf unter dem Titel "Ueber Encyclopädie und Methodologie, als eine Einleitung in das medicinisch-chirurgische Studium, ferner über theoretische Medicin, nämlich: Physiologie, allgemeine Pathologie und allgemeine Therapie; dann über Diätetik, medicinische und chirurgische Arzneimittel-Lehre und Receptirkunst, nach Nushard". Grundlage für die Vorlesung war das zweibändige Lehrbuch "Theoretische Medicin für Wundärzte" (Prag, 1824-26) des Mediziners Franz Willibald Nusshard (1785-1847), der während der Choleraepidemie von 1831/32 gemeinsam mit Julius Vincenz von Krombholz die Lazarette in Prag leitete und 1843 zum Direktor aller dortigen Krankenhäuser und Versorgungsinstitutionen ernannt wurde. - Die Mitschrift zur Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie (311 SS.) ohne separates Titelblatt. Mit 18 SS. über Heilquellen in Tirol und Vorarlberg, eine Aufzählung, die sich in der Dissertation des Mediziners Johann Georg Gmeiner (Wien 1838) wiederfindet. - Papierbedingt etwas gebräunt; vereinzelte Randläsuren; wenige Seiten mit leichem Wurmfraß nahe der rechten oberen Ecke. Mit auffallend wenigen Korrekturen. - Eine frühere Mitschrift zu Karpes Vorlesung aus dem Jahr 1827 befindet sich in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (Cod. 1193).‎

‎[LABELYE (Charles)]‎

‎The Result of a Particular View of the North Level of the Fens Taken in August, 1745. London: Printed by C. and J. Ackers, 1748. First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), 32pp., facsimile letter tipped-in, later quarter calf by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, slightly rubbed, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. [Sold with:] ----. The Result of a View of the Great Level of the Fens, Taken at the Desire of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, &c. Governor, and the Gentlemen of the Corporation of the Fens, in July 1745.‎

‎First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), vi, [2], 74pp., without the map, later quarter calf by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, slightly rubbed, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Charles Labelye (1705-1753) was a Swiss civil engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage from the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, he is best known for his work on the original Westminster Bridge. He was invited by the Duke of Bedford and the Corporation of the Fens to compile a full and detailed report which was undertaken during periods of special leave granted him by the Westminster Bridge Commission. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Lord Esm? S. Gordon. Skepton, 815, 816.‎

‎[MECHANICAL ENGINEERING -- POP-UPS]. GEORGE, R‎

‎Der Maschinenbau. Modellatlas. Portfolio which features Heinrich Bussing’s stave-wagon motor truck a German Electrical Manufacturing Co. DC turbo dynamo a Zwilling four-cylinder steam locomotive a 1921 Protos 10/30 PS Phaeton touring car with 8 other models‎

‎Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger 1922. Folio portfolio. With 7 large double-page colour chromolithograph plates 11 elaborate colour-lithograph paper models with overlays printed on thick cardstock. Contemporary gray-green boards stamped in gilt & black on front cover black cloth spine minor bumping to corners shelfwear light uniform toning still VG copy w/ all models in excellent working condition. First edition thus of this installment of Georg’s inventive and technically accurate moveable model atlases which were instructional pieces that were available separately from the technical volumes. This one features eleven pop-up models with elaborate overlays including a 1920 3-ton motor truck with stave bed by the famed company which also produced buses and other large transport vehicles the Zwilling four-cylinder steam engine which was a narrow gauge locomotive based on the three-truck Shay design; as well as the 1922 Protos 10/30 Phaeton which featured 4 cylidners 30 horsepower and was a remarkably reliable automobile. In addition this features models of a DC turbo dynamo a steam electric generator a heavy duty Deutz AG gas engine a Stirling steam boiler with a couple duplicates. Heinrich Killinger, hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 51691

‎[MECHANICAL ENGINEERING -- POP-UPS]. [HANTZSCHEL-CLAIRMONT, Walter].‎

‎Die Praxis des modernen Maschinenbaues. Modell-Atlas. Features Fiat Five-Passenger Automobile Heissdampf Tender Locomotive and Wright Brothers Military Flyer with 5 other models‎

‎Berlin: C.H. Weller ca. 1910. Folio. 14 pp unpaginated printed on thick cardstock w/ 8 elaborate colour-lithograph paper models with overlays 1 large folding double-page. Contemporary dark blue-green linen embossed & stamped & decorated on front cover in black with black lettering black cloth spine minor bumping to corners shelfwear still NF copy w/ all models in excellent working condition. First edition thus of this installment of Walter Hantzschel-Clairmont’s inventive and technically accurate moveable model atlases. This one features 8 pop-up models with elaborate overlays including a 1905 Fiat Five-Passenger 60 Horsepower touring car the Steam Tender Locomotive which operated on the Prussian State Railways and was built by the Berlin Machine Works; as well as the Wright Brothers Military Flyer first demonstrated in testing in 1908 and even though Orville was severely injured in 1908 flying the aircraft it proved to be very successful and had higher speed than the previous models and by 1910 was fitted with wheeled landing gear as featured in this moveable model. In addition this features models of a combination planer and band saw for sawmills; water turbine a massive Heinrich Lanz stationary Locomobile steam engine Babcock & Wilcox Steam Boiler and finally a large stationary Diesel Motor produced by the Nuremberg Machine works. Hantzschel-Clairmont under his pseudonym of Jean Clairemont was the chief editor of the famed technical magazine Eisenzeitung in Berlin. C.H. Weller, hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 51688