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1936Approx. 40 pages. Features: The Metadyne system of electric motor control; Engineers' Experiences; Electrical Pyrometers; Marine Control Gear; Power Factor Meters; 25-line Private Automatic Telephone Exchange; Electrical Equipment in a Modern Store; Making Agreements for Power Supply; Reading Switchboard Instruments from a distance; Development of X-rays in Dental Practice; Selection of Factory Substation Switchgear; Mercury switches and their applications; Ballast Resistances; Electrical Progress Overseas; Opportunities in the Cinema Industry. Well-worn. Bottom staple has torn through cover else no major defects. Unmarked. Blue and Orange front cover features advertisement for Callender Cables showing the vessel "Stirling Castle" equipped with 112 miles of their cable. Book
193639 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
1937Approx. 40 pages. Features: James Clerk Maxwell; Electric Ship Propulsion - Part I; German Standars for Electric Traction; The British Standard Specifications - Mining Electrical Equipment; Electrolytic Condensers; Wilson Electric Tower Wagon; Domestic and Industrial Electric Heating Installations; Portable Instruments in the Factory; Useful Data Relating to Three-Phase Motors (7.5-25 h.p.); Electrical Testing Instruments; Electron Tube Devices; Electrical Progress Overseas; Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Demonstration. Very well-worn with 1x2 inch chip from top corner of front cover. Front cover advertisement for the Midland Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. reads "Britannia rules the waves but M.E.M. controls the current." Unmarked. Magazine
1937Approx 40 pages. Features: Magnetic and Motorised Valves; Measuring Voltages in Excess of Meter Range; Inductive Interference; Construction of Steel Tank Rectifiers; Electrically Propelled Transfer Cars; Regenerative Braking Systems; Diary of an Electrical Contractor; The Design of Lighting Fittings for Particular Applications; Insulation Testing Instruments; Electrical Drying Equipment; Conversion Efficiency in Cinemas; Power Factor for the Plant Engineer. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Please Note: Large chunk has been torn from upper corner of front cover, which features an advertisement for Mazda Lamps. Book
1900réf. 24129Marlboro MA: C H Proctor ca1900. As issued. As new. Paper bag meas. appx. 375 x 265 mm. Printed on one side only. Lightly inked production marker: 8 STANDARD Graphic illustration advertising C H Proctor's veterinary powders printed on one side of the Standard #8 brown paper bag. C H Proctor unknown books
1918Portrait of Lieutenant-General Travers E. Clarke on front cover. Features: The Advance on Zonnebeke (conclusion); Photos of excavating with horse and shovel; The Smashing Victory of Broodseinde; Centerfold is a lovely montage of photos of decorated women; The Conquest of Peolcappelle and the Reverse of Passchendaele; National War Bonds advertisement on back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
1918Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence on front cover (there is also an excellent full-page photographic portrait of him at the centerfold). Features: The Conquest of Poelcappelle (conclusion); The Closing Victories on the Passchendaele Ridge - great tank photos; War Bond advertisement inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
1918Portrait of Colonel T.H.J.C. Goodwin on front cover. Features: The Closing Victories on the Passchendaele Ridge (conclusion); The Man Who Willed the War - Words and Wanderings of the Kaiser William - with numerous photos; Centerfold portrait of Lieut.-General Travers Clarke; Centerfold portrait entitled Representatives of the Allied Powers attending the first meeting of the Allied Naval Council, London, January 22nd, 1918; Back cover advertisement for National War Bonds. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
1961Features: Yuri Gregarin's Flight - Extensive Coverage; Eichmann Trial; Nylon net stops jet; The Maya Stelae of Aguateca; Jewels in the service of chivalry and royalty - Orders of Knighthood and an Empress crown (in colour); Courtship among animals (in colour); The AMI 6 Citroen; Large fold-out advertisement by AEI (Associated Electrical Industries Ltd); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1960Features/Photos: First photographs in colour - treasures of the Russian Kremlin; Prince Andrew baptised; a drive-in bank; the shots at Johannesburg; An underground township protected against nuclear attack - a Cornell University model; The great temples of Abu Simbel; What the high dam will do to the antiquities of Nubia; St. John's College, Johannesburg, South Africa; Brasilia - Brazil's new capitol; one-page colour advertisement for Daimler Majestic; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1961Features: The Algerian Rebellion; The Abortive Invasion of Cuba; The Empress of Canada; The Education of Commonwealth Youth - Hilton College, South Africa; Lovely colour advertisement for the Humber Super Snipe; Colour Advertisement for State Express 555 Cigarettes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1959Features: Lovely full-page colour Jaguar advertisement; Many gorgeous colour illustrations; Nice Rootes Humber Super Snipe full-page colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
196532 pages. Features: Moving Towards the Climax in South Vietnam; Full-Colour MG Automobile Advertisement; The Queen visits Sudan; Turbulence in the Aircraft Industry; Art Treasures from French Churces; Astronaut's Underwater Escape Drill; Police Shooting at Westmorland; The Mine of Statuary in Aphrodisias; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1959Features: Eton College, Five Facsimile Water-Colours by Dennis Flanders; Princess Saloon Advertisement; Nyasaland Disturbances; Serious Fire in Ilford; The Origin of the Solar System - Part V of a science series; Priceless Exhibition of Cambridge Silver; Hazor - the last season of excavation - part I, the lower city; Dramatic Sea and Air Accidents; The Eoka leader and his weapons; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: In colour - Canadian flowers, Istanbul, 'The Sleeping Beauty'; BMC truck advertisement in colour; Prince Andrew arrives; Dozens killed by police at Sharpeville, South Africa; Moby Dick - a projected nuclear-powered submarine for Britain (2-page cutaway drawing); A great new British liner - Canberra; Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: The Kariba Hydro-electric project opened by the Queen Mother; Brazillian Indians in the heart of the forest - the dying tribes; The man who threw the spanner - multiple photos of Khrushchev; a Bristol Siddeley flying lorry/truck which would travel from London to Birmingham in about 25 minutes; Nonsuch revealed in recent excavations; The Leys School; Colour Decca Stereo advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1959Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos include: The Colonel and Staff of the South Wales Borderers, The City Imperial Volunteers Farewell Supper, Scenes of the Departure of the City of London Imperial Volunteers, Queen Victoria shakes hands with Captain Seeley of the Imperial Yeomanry. Illustrations include: Dublins and Inniskillings across the Tugela, How Lord Roberts' Son Fell at Colenso, New South Wales Lancers, Incident at Modder River, Boer Prisoners from Belmont, Troops detrain at De Aar Junction, Inside the Johannesburg Fort, Trestle Bridge at Frere, Modder River Temporary Bridge Construction, Burial of General Wauchope (centerfold), Full-page Cadbury Cocoa Advertisement, Berkefield Filter Advertisement, The Highland Brigade Re-Forming after the Battle of Magersfontein. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1900Scenes of fighting in Natal. The seige of Ladysmith. Scenes at the front. Scenes near Estcourt, Natal. New South Wales Contingent departs for action aboard the 'Aberdeen' (photo). The "Medic" departs Fort Melbourne Pier for the Cape with Victorian and Tasmanian Contingents (photo). Bringing Boer Prisoners into Ladysmith (illustration). 16 Photos of Casualties at the front. Photo of the Canadian contingent passing up Adderly St., Cape Town. Photo of the Bluejackets of H.M.S. "Terrible" with 4.7" gun. Centerfold illustration entitled "The Transvaal War: The Loss of Our Guns at the Tugela River". The Khalifa's last stand at Umdebereikat, in Kordofan. The Battle of Abu Aada. Full-page Monkey Brand Soap advertisement. Photo of four officers of the Dublin Fusiliers. A jubilee group of colonials - photo. Quaker Oats ad upon back cover. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Book
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Cover illustration of The Battle of Magersfontein. Photos of: Squad of the Essex Artillery Volunteers, Detachment of the London Scottish Volunteers, Machine-Gun Detachment of the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, the new Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert", Prominent officers on active service, Scenes on the Western Line of Communicationsl, The Camp of the Grahamstown 1st City Volunteers, at Cradock, Lord Curzon's visit to Lucknow, A Group of Irish Nurses bound for South Africa, Scenes at De Aar. Illustrations include: "With the Kimberley Relief Column, The Burial of General Wauchope and Lieutenant-Colonel Goff, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the field of Magersfontein, The City of London Volunteers for South Africa, How Long Tom's Shell Disturbed the Middies' Sucking-Pig, Bursting of the Shell that Passed through the Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, and killed Dr. Stark, Rimington's Tigers, on the Mooi River, Manning the breastwork at Naauwpoort Camp, Arundel Camp, Bluejackets Saving Their Gun (Centerfold), Lovely full-page Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
réf. 2091502135500806Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1910réf. 37233Strasburg VA 1910. A very good copy. 1 pp. 4 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Early 20th c. advertisement. Product for sale by D.L. Kenly & Co. of Hagerstown Md. featuring an engraving of Chief Powhatan. unknown books
Publisher's original colour illustrated card covers. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 160 pp. Publication of the day featuring near the knuckle colour and monochrome illustrations and cartoons, advertisements to end papers and lower panel. Dusty and slight creases to overlapping edges. [HA-3]
1962Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
191440 pages. Part 10 of a series "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - from Preface. Contents: Chapter XXII - The German Advance to Brussels; Chapter XXIII - The First French Offensive in Alsace; Centerfold "Map To Illustrate The German Advance to Brussels". Dozens of excellent black and white archival photographs. Upon back cover is an interesting and attractive advertisement for the "Swan" Fount Pen, intended for a soldier's kit. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Magazine