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Flushman, Bruce S.
Water Boundaries: Demystifying Land Boundaries Adjacent to Tidal or Navigable Waters. [SERIES]: Wiley Series in Surveying and Boundary Control (Series Editor - Roy Minnick).
RARE comprehensive guide to the legal issues and evidence procedures related to the location of the property boundaries of lands adjacent to watercourses in eight parts: 1. The Basics of Land Title / 2. What is the Choice-of Law? / 3. Basic Legal Principles Defining Property Boundary Movement / 4. Property Boundary Determination Along the Open Ocean Coast / 5. Property Boundary Determination in Estuarine Areas / 6. Property Boundary Determination Along and In Tidal River Regimes / 7. Property Boundary Determination Along and In Navigable, Nontidal Rivers and Streams Regimes / 8. Property Boundary Determination Along Navigable Lakes. The author is a member of the firm of Washburn, Briscoe & McCarthy, PC. Also contains table of authorities, glossary, appendices and index. 240x160mm. LVIII+389 pages. Hardcover. Cover rubbed. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Stamp on title page verso; sticker on page V upper edge - NO damage to text. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and ideal resource for surveyors and lawyers confronted with littoral property boundary issues is in good condition.
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M. Bachmann, Thomas / Melley, Dawn
Who's Who in Science and Engineering: 2000-2001 Millennium Edition - 5th Edition
30X23 cm. XVI+1859 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Pages slightly yellowing. Pen inscription on first blank page. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: On purchase of this item, shipping by Air Mail is included free of charge.
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Frei, K. [Karl]
Zur Theorie des Fernsprechverkehrs (Einführung und Überblick). Einzeldarstellungen aus der elektrischen Nachrichtentechnik: I. Band
155X210mm. 138 pages. Hardcover. Cover and spine slightly worn. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges slightly tattered. Pen inscription on title page. Pages yellowing. Otherwise the book is in good condition.
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Fuhlberg-Horst, John
Die Eisenbahn Im Bild: Eine Bilderreihe Aus Aller Welt - 3 Auflage - Volume II-III [THESE VOLUMES ONLY]. [SERIES]: Technische Bucher Fur Alle.
THESE VOLUMES ONLY. [ALL VOLUMES]: Includes black and white plates. Includes folded pictures. 18x26 cm. 120+112 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners slightly worn. Front cover slightly faded and yellowing. Back cover slightly stained. Spine slightly worn. Binding is visible between several pages. Several pages age stained- text not damaged. Pages yellowing. [Volume II]: Small holes in first white page. Last white page slightly ripped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Ettingen, S.G.
Engineering Handbook, Volume I: Engineering Fundamentals [THIS VOLUME ONLY] [IN HEBREW]
THIS VOLUME ONLY. IN HEBREW. 17x12 cm. 12+659 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover is slightly dirty. Edges of book are stained. Writing in pen on front white page. Pages are yellowing. Else in good condition.
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Dictionary of Technological Terms: Part 1 - Machine Parts, Tools, Welding, Technical Drawing, Mechanics, Hebrew-English-French-German with 975 Figures and Formulae [IN HEBREW][THIS VOLUME ONLY]
IN HEBREW. THIS VOLUME ONLY. 17X13 cm. 16+365+CLXII pages. Hardcover in dust jacket. Inner back cover slightly age stained. Else in good condition.
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The Editor
Opening of Water Grove Reservoir, Rochdale 1938
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering/embossing to leather covers Large fold-out map/statistics at rear on linen reinforced paper in perfect condition. 24pp. Leather bound booklet published to commemmorate the opening of Rochdale's main water supply reservoir by Alderman T Elvyn Kershaw, Chairman of the Waterworks Committee in 1938. Includes description and statistics of construction, the history of Water Supply in Rochdale plus photographs and diagrams showing the construction process. Extremely scarce.
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Taylor, F. H.
Electric Circuits Simply Explained
No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly rubbed slightly dusty card covers and no bumping to corners. 99pp. Clear diagrams and text of seventy different electrical circuits.
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Canby, Thomas Y.
From Botswana to the Bering Sea : My Thirty Years with National Geographic
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 271pp. The author was a writer for National Geographic magazine, travelling all over the world to cover the woes and triumphs of our planet.
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Rouvray, Dennis H
Fuzzy Logic in Chemistry
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 364pp. This book which is the first to explore the role of fuzzy logic in chemistry begins with a foreword by the founder of fuzzy logic, Professor Lotfi A Zadeh. It discusses molecular size and shape, chirality, quantum-chemical systems, hierachical classification and the engineering of molecular species including drug design.
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Williams, Alan
BR Standard Steam Album
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a minor trace of bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with a little rubbing to upper edge. 89pp. Photographs of the 'Standard' range of BR locomotives at work.
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Ransome-Wallis, P
Locomotives and Trains of the Big Four
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to bottom of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped and spine ends rubbed. 128pp. Considered by many as the most interesting period in the history of British steam locomotives, the 25 years of Railway Grouping from 1923 to 1948 is covered in this book with photograohs of the LMS, LNER, Great Western and Southern railways.
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Scott-Morgan, John
British Independent Light Railways
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 96pp. The author recalls the heyday of these independant branch line railways along with some real photographic gems of their operations.
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Manahan, Stanley E
Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, very minor creasing to about four lower page corners and no bumping to corners. 844pp. This book provides a reader having little or no background in chemistry with the fundamentals of chemistry and environmental chemistry needed for a trade, profession or curriculum of study that requires a basic knowledge of these topics. It is designed to serve as a general reference and textbook for a broad spectrum of applications.
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Nock, O S
Line Clear Ahead : 75 Years of Ups and Downs
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright red cloth boards, scuffing to rear board and no bumping to corners. Apart from the scuffing, the book would be 'fine'. Price clipped dust jacket with tiny nick to upper edge and minor creasing to edges. 217pp. O.S.Nock, author of over 100 railway books, tells of his 60 years of direct involvement with railway engineering development. He also delightfully relates 75 years of railway and travel recollections - the most vividly changing three-quarter century in the history of transport.
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Minns, JE
Model Railway Engines
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not torn or creased with minor traces of handling. 97pp. The author describes the fascinating transition from the early inventors' development models and instrument makers' patent and exhibition models to the modern commercially produced ones. The book covers the art of model railway engines from 1797 with a large number of illustrations, many in colour from Europe, America and the Far East.
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Smith, Alice Kimball and Weiner, Charles (editors)
Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 376pp. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is one of the few American scientists who have become public and controversial figures in the twentieth century. This book adds a new dimension to the Oppenheimer story by offering a look at the private man behind the public figure. It consists of letters spanning the period from his Harvard student days in 1922 to his departure from Los Alamos in 1945. The letters are supplemented by recollections of those who knew him and by his own recollections from an interview a few years before his death.
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Crowther, J.G.
The Young Man's Guide to Civil Engineering
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to title page only. Clean pages in a very tight copy with traces of foxing to feps and to slightly dusty page edges, bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Ffep missing and mark to top of page edges. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small nick to top of spine. 224pp. According to one definition, Civil Engineering is 'the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use, and convenience of man'. The author's intention is to show young men who already have an interest in this branch of engineering and are considering it as a career, the truth of this definition and the wide scope civil engineering offered in 1968. Well illustrated with black & white photographs of contempoarary works.
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Ellis, C Hamilton
The Royal Trains
Trace of foxing to page edges. No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked, torn or creased with very minor traces of handling. 183pp. In an entertaining yet authoritative manner, the author traces the evolution over 110 years of the royal train from the first enthusiastic sampling by Queen Victoria through all the advanced features which later made it onto our standard passenger stock. Includes some foreign examples.
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Watkins, George
The Mill Textile Engine : Volume 2
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to feps and title pages only. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with slight signs of handling. 112pp. This is volume 2 of a superb work on these engines, illustrated with full-page photographic plates of almost all of the sixty-six covered in the book. They are categorised by engine type and their locations, whilst being mostly Lancashire and Yorkshire, do include a few as far away as India. A beautiful book.
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Rousseau, Pierre
The Limits of Science
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to upper page edges and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny nicks to upper edge, signs of label removal from rear and a little sunning. 186pp. A summary of the ideas on the infinitesimally small and on the cosmic held by scientists around the start of the twentieth century and on the changes which had taken place at the time of the book's publication. Translated from the original French.
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Duff, Thomas;Hussey, Matthew;Hegarty, Joseph
The Story of the Dublin Institute of Technology
Signed and inscribed by Joseph Hegarty on the title page. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor crease to top of spine. 211pp. The Dublin Institute of Technology was established in 1993, amalgamating six existing higher education colleges of the City of Dublin including the oldest which was founded in 1887. This book describes the evolution and accomplishments of the Institute over 113 years from its beginnings on that date.
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Evans, Christopher
The Making of the Micro : A History of the Computer
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with very minor creasing to edges. 115pp. This book tells the fascinating and exciting story of the calculating machine, from the counting frame to the computer. Fully illustrated with diagrams and photographs.
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Weightman, Gavin
What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us
Neat previous owner's sticker inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards, very faint creasing to four page corners, minor bumping to upper front corner and bottom of spine. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to spine ends and upper front corner. 224pp. Between 1750 and 1840, technology progressed rapidly causing an exodus of people from the land to the towns. This book tells the story of that time, of the development of industry, medicine, transport and the beginnings of the modern consumer society.
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Hall, A.J.
Textile Finishing
Previous owner's note partially rubbed out on front end paper. Tape marks to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean pages in a very tight binding with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 453pp. Revised third of this volume which includes much more technical knowledge of the industry of making textile materials more attractive and serviceable. With manufacturing processes and the chemistry involved.
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King, David; Joice, Dick
David King, Man of Steam : Talking to Dick Joice
From Anglia Television's Bygones series. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Dick King has been inventing devices of various kinds since his boyhood but his real enthusaism is steam. His models, whether engines or paddle steamers are a collector's dream, and he also produces weird and wonderful machines such as the Fogrophone.
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Cobb, Cathy; Fetterolf, Monty L.
The Joy of Chemistry : The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards, small stain to front page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny nick near bottom of spine. 393pp.The authors illustrate the concept of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, from fall foliage to fireworks, smoke detectors to computers, from digestion to fingerprints.
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Jenkins, Dennis R.
Space Shuttle : The Development History of the National Space Transportation System : The Beginning through STS-50
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 22 page appendix + 290pp. The seventy-plus year history that chronicles the development of reusable lifting re-entry spacecraft. From the early works of Eugen Sanger in germany, to the Cold War developments in the United States, and finally to the ultimate experimant - Space Shuttle. With a wealth of photographs and diagrams.
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Bourriau, Janine (editor)
Understanding Catastrophe : Its Impact on Life on Earth
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little indenting and minor creasing to edges. 213pp. This book examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on earth. It begins with a chapter on supernovae and the nature of stellar catastrophe and how evolution itself can proceed through genetic jumps. It goes on to discuss natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and cyclones and how these affect human populations. A final chapter provides some unsettling insights into our fundamental incapacity when confronted by major threats to life and health of a medical nature.
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Barnes, Michael
Secrets of Lost Empires : Reconstructing the Glories of Ages Past
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing to upper edge. 224pp. This volume, illustrated with photographs taken as experiments to recreate the methods used by ancient peoples to build their worlds took place, dramatically reveals the skill and ingenuity of ancient minds and hands, as well as introducing us to many wonders of vanished covilizations.
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The Editors
Where to Buy - Everything Chemical - July 1934 Edition
No marks or inscriptions. Oversize covers lightly creased around edges. No other creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. Original string through corner to hang catalogue in office. 178pp. Catalogue in excellent condition of everything chemical with listings by chemical name, trade name and chemical plant with suppliers details.
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Rusinek, Michal
Land of Nicholas Copernicus
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs.
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Hill, Graham
Chemistry Counts
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 283pp. Teacher's/student's handbook useful to chemistry and the GCSE examination.
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Jenkins, David (editor)
The History of BPB Industries
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small repair to lower front edge and small nicks to some edges. 147pp. History of the British Plaster Board company established in 1917.
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Gibson, A. H. & Chorlton, Alan E. L. (Editors)
Factory Processes and Organization : A Practical Treatise Written By Specialists (The Gresham Library of Mechanical Engineering)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, rubbing to spine ends, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Three pull-out diagrams in excellent condition. Very scarce. 370pp. The main sections are split into Drawing-Office Organization, Pattern-Making, Foundry Work, The Machine-Shop, Fitting and Erecting of Heavy Machinery, Transport of Heavy Machinery, Pipe-Work and Rivets and Riveted Joints. Well illustrated.
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Gilman, Henry (editor)
Organic Syntheses Collective Volume I : Being a Revised Edition of Annual Volumes I-IX
Previous owner's book plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, slight rubbing to spine and spine foot, dusty upper page edges and no bumping to corners. 580pp. Full practical details including chemical formulae of the synthetic procedures to make around two hundred and fifty compounds.
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Dyke, George Vaughan
John Lawes of Rothamsted : Pioneer of Science, Farming and Industry (SIGNED By AUTHOR)
Signed by author on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, minor bump to foot of faded spine and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket as issued. A scarce volume. 234pp. Biography of John Bennet Lawes, the unquestioned authority on most aspects of agricultural science for much of the nineteenth century who founded the Rothamstead Research Station.
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Harris, G. W. (editor)
Year Book of the Institute of Clerks of Works of Great Britain 1957-1958
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 246pp. With extensive details of the Institute including Past Members plus a wealth of engineering tables.
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Harris, G. W. (editor)
Year Book of the Institute of Clerks of Works of Great Britain 1956-1957
Tape marks to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 248pp. With extensive details of the Institute including Past Members plus a wealth of engineering tables.
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Harris, G. W. (editor)
Year Book of the Institute of Clerks of Works of Great Britain 1955-1956
Tape marks to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, creasing to last two blank pages and no bumping to corners. 240pp. With extensive details of the Institute including Past Members plus a wealth of engineering tables.
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Harris, G. W. (editor)
Year Book of the Institute of Clerks of Works of Great Britain 1958-1959
Tape marks to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 257pp. With extensive details of the Institute including Past Members plus a wealth of engineering tables.
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Engineering Heritage : Highlights from the History of Mechanical Engineering Volume 1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to lower edge near spine and minor bumping to corners. 180pp. Twenty-six articles by experts in their field about the history of a wide range of engineering activities from engineering drawing to windmills, from Richard Arkwright to Richard Trevithick and from pumps to armoured fighting vehicles.
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Bentley, Michael
Meccano Magazine : Vol.XXIV, Nos.1-6, January-June, 1939
Previous owner's name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased and protected in a fully removable plastic sleeve. Adverts plus 388pp. A wonderful nostalgic trip.
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Patterson, Austin M.
A German-English Dictionary for Chemists
Previous owner's neat name inside front cover and (in pencil) original price. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny nicks to upper edge of two pages and no bumping to corners. 541pp. Essential for the chemist searching German references or books.
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Bowman, Margaret E.
Romance in Arithmetic : A History of Our Currency Weights and Measures and Calendar
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked boards, front end paper missing and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Detailed study of the history of money, barter, weights, time and other numeric systems.
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Makemson, T. (editor)
Transactions of the Manchester Association of Engineers : Session 1937-38
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with small mark to rear board, slight browning to pages and bump to foot of spine. 24 pages Annual Report plus 437pp.
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Dobson Barlow Ltd
Makers and Patentees of Machinery for Preparing, Spinning, Doubling, Winding, Reeling and Gassing Cotton
Previous owner's name easily removable in pencil to reverse of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, very minor wrinkling to board covering and no bumping to corners. Extremely scarce. 151pp. Very well illustrated with fascinating details of cotton manufacturing machinery including drawing, doubling, winding, carding, weaving, spinning, balling and gassing. Includes many tables and photographs of twenty-eight cotton mills in Lancashire and throughout the world.
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Pyke, Magnus
The Science Century
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with crease to dust flap. 183pp. How a century made such a change to our scientific thought and our applied technologies.
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Cuny, Hilaire
Albert Einstein : The Man and His Theories
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A clean very tight copy with tape-marked black cloth boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to top of sunned spine. 167pp.
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The Editors
An Extraordinary Enterprise in Polymer Science : Vita - the First Fifty Years
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 155pp. Company history of the plastics business which began in Oldham and soon moved to Middleton, north Manchester. Very well illustrated.
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