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198042 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The House as a Drawing - Krueck & Olsen's residence for a wealthy Chicago urbanite; The Library as a Showplace - Poplar Creek Public Library, Streamwood, Illinois; The Undulating Glass Wall - utilized in a newly renovated facility for Optimus Inc.; The Chicago Board of Trade; Board of Trade Addition - a new synthesis; Virginio ferrari - New Directions; Les Halles Competition - Chicago Entries; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
1949314 pages. Appendices, references, bibliography and index. Black and white plates. "A study of the way in which slaves were exported from Africa after the British Trade had been abolished, and of the attempts to check that traffic." - from Introduction. Prior owner's details stroked out inside front board else unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Sunning to spine. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
19201182 pages. Index. Many fold-outs of detailed diagrams. Undated. Appears to be circa early 1900s. Topics include: Strength of Materials; Shipbuilding; Heat; Definitions; Electricity; Turbines; Steam Engines; Condensers and Auxiliaries; Refrigeration; Boilers; Oil Fuel; Internal Combustion Engines; Fire Precautions. Above-average wear to maroon cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. Some pencil writing upon endpapers. Central portion of back free endpaper torn. A worthy reading copy of this magnificent tome. Book
1971414 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition. Fold-out maps. "One of the most remarkable and historically important journals of early North American exploration." - from dust jacket. Top three inches of front free endpaper neatly removed. Prior owner's blind stamp atop half-title page. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book and price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
196420 pages. Describes Michigan's economic climb, its advantages for industrial development and its outstanding facilities for recreation. Features: Large ad for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce inside front cover; New Spirit, Automobile Demand Lift Michigan to Economic Heights - article with photo of Governor George Romeny with school kids; Rare one-page Chrysler ad features large photo of their experimental turbine car and caption "It's Great to be born in Michigan"; Michigan Assumes Leadership (article); One-page American Motors ad features Michigan as the 'nerve center' of its operations; Labor Assists in State's Growth; Kellogg's (of Battle Creek) ad features boy on 'Rube Goldberg' homemade scateboard; Half-page ad for the National Bank of Detroit; One-page ad for the Consumer's Power Company; Nice color centerfold state map identifies industrial and recreational points of interest; Detroit Bank & Trust ad; Article on the state's energy supply, with photo of the Detroit-Edison nuclear plant in Monroe County; Article on Michigan's R&D capabilities; One-page photo-illustrated Detroit-Edison ad; Half-page photo-ad for Detroit's Hudson's department store; Back cover color ad for the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company; and more. Moderately tanned with age. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. A wonderful memento of brighter days in the Wolverine State. Magazine
198028 pages. Features: Great colour photo ad inside front cover for Borg winter coat fashions for women; Brian Moore - We Were like the Jews in Nazi Germany; On the Rocks - the suburban lives of Vancouver Island lighthouse keepers - feature article with colour photos; 'Exiled' Author Norman Levine Comes Home after 20 years; The Royal Canadian Air Farce - article with great colour photo; Misadventure in the Jade Trade - Laurie Hughes has been fighting to stop the sellout of a rare and precious Canadian resource - article with colour photo of Hughes; Article on she fashion by Marina Sturdza; Howie Meeker appears in ad for Reed Career Service. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1958Features: Nice colour ad for the Parker 61 Capillary Pen inside front cover; Editorial - Let Courts, Not Customs Men, Decree Which Books to Ban; Nice Matinee cigarette colour photo ad; Colour ad for EMBA brands of mutation mink; Jockey Johnny Longden tells his own story - many great photos; Why the World Wants More of the Theatre du Nouveau Monde; Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives - they seek out 'price-fixers'; How the Dutch sold Canada on Tulips, by Alan Phillips; Should you send your child to camp?; Pearl McLeod's old-fashioned kitchen in Penobsquis, New Brunswick; How to Plan for your Retirement; Dictaphone Time-Master colour centerfold ad loose but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Magazine
1961Features: The embarrassment of Louisiana - this state was glowing with prosperity until the integration conflicts broke out in all their ugliness; Abortion (part 2 of 3) - a reporter's portrait of the abortionists - who they are, and how they practice their trade; The face of America - River of Ice - photo of the Mendenhall Glacier; Pitfalls of buying a boat - Richard Bertram's Miami 'supermarket' sold $5,000,000 worth of sail and power vessels last year despite the disdain of competitors who think he's too high-pressured; A Call on the 'Candid-Camera' Man, Allen Funt; Can Ivan read better than Johnny? - Arthur S. Trace Jr. points out that Russian kids are far more literate than their American counterparts; Adventures of the Mind - The Hidden Heart of Nature, by Elliot Lovegood (E.L.) Grant Watson. Nice color Pepsi ad. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Gutter Politics, by Bruce L. Felknor - in every election year unscrupulous smear experts ply their shoddy trade; Eichmann and His Trial (Part 1 of 3), by Gideon Hausner - the full story, his prosecutor, the Attorney-General of Israel; Change of Pace on the Night-Club Scene - New York's grab bag of entertainment holds a varied fare for the enterprising visitor; His Car is Named Desire - with the racy Avanti, Studebaker's Sherwood Egbert hungers for big sales; 'Genius' at Green Bay - Jim Tayolr delivers running power for the Packers; From Greece - Food Fit for the Gods; Tale of Two Cities - San Francisco vs. Los Angeles; Memoirs of a Monster, by Boris Karloff - the world's most famous bogeyman looks back on his 35-year career in horror; Can we still be first on the Moon? (PLEASE NOTE: PAGES 83-84 MISSING FROM THE MOON STORY. Nice colour Cadillac ad inside back cover. Average wear. Book
193432 pages. Features: The War on Religion - with an anti-religious quote by Max Epstein, Vice-Commissar for Education; Notes of the Week; New Year Notes by Lady Houston, D.B.E.; A Conservative Leader?, by Kim; The Case of Patrick O'Malley, life-long trade unionist; Satirical full-page ad for the public auction of the nations of the Commonwealth; A Hair of the Dog that Bit You!; Air Progress Abroad, by Major Oliver Stewart; The Monstrous Shadow of 1934, by Robert Machray; More Grave Changes - British Legion Affiars; Eve in Paris; Political Madness - Conservative Party Heads for Suicide, by Colonel Sir Thomas A. Polson; Lord Dalhousie - Creator of Modern India - article plus full-page portrait on glossy stock; India - the Frost Continues, by Hamish Blair; Across a Century (Charles Lamb died December 27, 1834); New book news; News snippets from the empire; The Expensive Mr. Baldwin; Music reviews; Theatre notes; The Gamekeeper's Dog, by Eric Hardy; Broadcasting notes; Lady Houston's Cold Cure; Interesting back cover reproduction of a letter dated 23 May, 1917 signed by Ramsay MacDonald (and others) in support of the Russian Revolution, plus one of his more recent quotes, plus the suggestion that it was his intent that the British people pay for goods ordered by Russia from Britain. Faint libray stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
1932Former owner's name faintly in pencil atop front cover, else unmarked. Stapled contents separated from cover. Covers well-worn but contents good or better. Back cover graced with black and white advertisement from the Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources featuring image of a man tightening his belt. Features: Seeing with invisible light - use of ultr-violet light makes possible the 9000 power microscope; A new dam-reconditioning method - concrete facing is of novel construction; Editorials - synthetic rubber - studies in sex - we build ships; Is space expanding? - evidence points to the fact that the universe is exploding; Mechanical stevedores aboard ship - ship is converted into a "self-unloader"; Gorilla - greatest of all apes - thrills of a scientific expedition's hunt for gorillas; Safety rules for the airways - Department of Commerce regulations are all-inclusive; Eugenics for cows but not for humans - much of so-called eugenics is based upon fallacies; Marking the nations's boundaries - Questions of state's boundaries are complex and interesting; New York's newest subway cars - cars for new line are greatly improved; What science really is - why had the Greeks or the Chinese no Industrial Revolution?; Erosion Dares the west - a menace and the measures that must be taken to defeat it; From the archeologist's note book; Curious lead tablet, Luristan bronzes, a benevolent hippopotamus, a road of the ages; Analyzing "Archies" shots - Theodolite records shell-bursts in movies for close study; New and exotic delights for our table - many delicious fruit and vegetable immigrants in American markets. Book
1930Features: Aluminum and its hard-boiled alloys; Super magnetic fields; Influence of the coconut on Philippine industrial life; Birds of a bleak arctic island; Fragmentary molecules of the sun; Beautiful bridges on new rail line - exceptional engineering problems on European railway; Sinanthropus - the Peking man; Coney Island's museum - the first institution designed to show play-reaction; Six great institutions now have naval R.O.T.C.; Linemen of the sea - with the men who splice broken transatlantic cables; Features of speed queen The Europa - faster than the Bremen; Is there an ether?; Better days for aviation; Tangled commerce abides where children smoke and swim - Manus are the pack peddlers of the pacific; Moving a substation underground; Power from the earth's hot interior?; Athens Broadway; an ancient bakery; Light furnishes Ballroom decorations. Camel cigarette ad on back cover features several suave temptors and a temptress. Top inch of spine missing. Cracks to spine. One inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Significant overall wear. Book
1930208 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
1988312 pages. Index. "An inquiry into the inter-relations of Europe and Africa from the fifteenth century to the end of the colonial period... Examines African growth before the coming of the Europeans, using seven regions as concrete examples, and treats the European slave trade as a basic factor in African underdevelopment and technical stagnation... Places the awesome responsibility of redevelopment in the hands of Africans... Author was assassinated by agents of the Burnham government in 1980 following a year of political and industrial agitation." - from back cover. Prior owner's name inside front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1983Signed and inscribed by author atop first blank leaf. xii, 322 pages. Bibliography. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Presents the history of this community on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay in the Parry Sound District. Chapters include: The French; The Fur Trade; The Cartographers; Nineteenth Century Transients; The Loggers; The Fishermen; The Hotels; The Summer People; Pointe au Baril Station; The Islanders' Association; The Arts; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative local history. Book
1918Pages 111-136 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Contents: S.E. Saunders ad; Palladium commercial vehicle photo ad; Reform in the French Air Service; Sopwith ad; Large aerial photo of the air raid on Karlsruhe on January 14th, 1918; The first fruits of reprisals; Photo of British planes lined up on the British Western Front - a scouting squadron; Avro ad; Great photo of explosion after bomb dropped from 1,500 feet; The United Eastern Tractor Biplane - article with photos and diagrams; The Roll of Honour; Airscrew Analysis (conclusion); The 260 H.P. Mercedes Aero Engine; Photo of a Gotha strafer on the British Western Front in France; Westland Aircraft ad; Photo of British planes lined up in Italy - the squadron that has accounted for many Hun planes; Aerial view of Mannheim during raid 24 December 1917; The "X" Aircraft Raids; International Aircraft Standards; British Air Services - announcements and appointments; Aircraft work at the Front; Personals; Russell screw driving attachment (photo with text); Flight Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory; and more. Unmarked. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
1891261 pages. Index. "Useful both as a text-book for students and as a hand-book of reference for young men commencing business life." - from Preface to first edition. Chapters include: Commerce, Machinery and Conveyance, Government and Trade, Insurance, Stocks, Money, Coins, Paper Money, Banks, Clearing, Bills, Exchange, Articles of Trade and Manufacture, and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's name atop title page. Average wear with somewhat above-average external soiling. Slight lean to spine. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage business text. Book
1964Features/Photos: The Keel-Laying of Great Britain's second Polaris Submarine, to be named Renown; Wimbledon; Bard-E-Nechandeh - an archaic sanctuary of the priests of Ahura-Mazda; World Trade Centre Proposal for New York; How the U.K.'s newest nuclear power station works; Reforming Hong Kong Drug Addicts; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1914Cover photo of Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. Centerfold devoted to the contributions of New Zealand and Australia. Topics: How Germany Attached our Commerce, and 'Russia's Stupendous Task and her Stupendous Army." Photos and illustrations include: Interesting German Naval Units; With a British Cruiser in the North Sea; Austrian seige guns; Modern artillery practice; Cossacks; Russian Howitzer training; Russia rols west; The Tsar and his military chiefs (montage); Russian mobilisation; The 'Three Emperors' Corner'; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Front cover almost detached. Book
Paris, Edit. Librairie encyclopèdique de Roret, 1839. Colección Encyclopèdie Roret. Algunas ilustraciones en b/n. Algun desplegable ilustrado. 334 p. 8º menor. Holandesa con lomo de piel algo rozado. Dorados y hierros en el lomo. Ex libris. Buen ejemplar. Livre en français.
1886663 + 53pp., 36cm., reliure cart. (plats marbrés, dos en toile avec titre doré), très bon état, rare, B81703
Rennes, Plihon & Hommay, 1935 - Revue In-8 - Brochés - T. XIV - Propre - 324 pages - bel exemplaire Exemplaire non mis dans le commerce
In-12, broché, couverture de papier bleuté d'origine, pièce de titre manuscrite à la plume, (2), xx [i.e. xxii], 238, (7) pages de table, approbation et privilège et catalogue éditeur. Edition originale dédiée à Christian VII, roi de Danemark. L'auteur intervient dans le débat ouvert par les physiocrates sur l'utilité sociale et économique des divers métiers. "Il place le savant au premier rang de sa hiérarchie, ensuite le militaire, le cultivateur et enfin le commerçant: 'Plus les sciences et les lettres sont cultivées dans un Etat, plus l'Etat est florissant' " (INED, n°2703). L'ouvrage est suivi de "l'Eloge du chevalier Bayard. Discours présenté à l'Académie de Dijon en 1769". L'auteur était prêtre et professeur de rhétorique à Chartres. (Conlon, 'Siècle des Lumières', 70/1099. Goldsmiths'-Kress, n°10612.10). Quelques piqûres & rousseurs éparses. Exemplaire entièrement non rogné, tel que paru.
6 volumes gr. In-8, XXIII-373; 357; 546; 391; 441; 218p. Complet en 6 volumes. Exemplaire en très bonne condition.
1853Full Title: "ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY. A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Centres, Bridges, Roofs; Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, etc. To Which is Added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber. 4th Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. With an Appendix Containing Specimens of Various Ancient and Modern Roofs, by Peter Barlow." pp. xxiv, 333 + Fifty-three (53) engraved plates [as called for], some folding. Old age stain. Partially unopened. Small folio. Original full cloth binding, embossed in blind. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was an important English architect and engineer. In 1813 he joined William Atkinson, architect to the ordnance in London, and in 1823 went into private practice as a civil engineer. These 'Elementary Principles of Carpentry' were first published in 1820. He also wrote 'Strength of Cast Iron' (1821), and 'The Steam Engine' (1827). Scarce and significant. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150 / DC
