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1942Pages 111-158 plus sixteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Canada's Aircraft Industry - dozens of excellent photos of manufacturing and the key people behind it; Against the Dutch East Indian Backdrop - a look at Borneo - article with nice photos; Flying and the Telephone; and more. Some of the best ads include: Lovely Ontario Wines two-color ad inside front cover; General Electric (instruments for Canadian bombers); Malton's National Steel Car; The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (features illustration of military aviator). Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1945Pages 751-818. Features: Fantastic cover art by Alex Schomburg depicts radio robot flametanks on a Japanese landscape; Dynamic Phono Pickup - moving-coil principle overcomes deficiencies of older types; Radio Robot Flame Tanks - feature article; Making Wartime Engineers; A Decibel Nomograph; Radios Serviced by Observation - Sight, Hearing, Touch, Small and Taste are Valuable Instruments for Checking Receivers; Tube Replacements - part 3 - Replacement by means of adapters; Adapter for the V.T.V.M.; Beware the Serviceman - how to avoid being gypped by the master racketeer; Broadast Equipment, Part XI - Frequency and Modulation Monitors; Detector Circuits - Part II - Hi-Fi Triode Detectors; Negative Feedback - Part II - feedback to the screen-grid circuit; "Loud" Crystal Radio; World-wide Station List; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1938282 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with detailed diagrams. Sections include: tool sets; ground flat stock; steel rules; transits and levelling instruments; combination squares and sets; vernier calipers and height gauges; micrometer calipers; indicators "last word"; indicators - dial and test; sets of automotove tools; gauges - screwpitch & thickness; calipers - dividers; gauges - drill and wire; levels; hacksaw frames and blades; reference tables. Faint ink stamp on front cover suggests this copy formerly belonged to The Western Iron Stores Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Above-average external wear and soiling, befitting a copy used extensively in a busy shop environment. Moderate soiling to unmarked contents. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent American tool reference. Book
19718 pages. Features: Robert Rundle Papers; Rare 1841 Map of Banff Area; New Exhibition of instruments and machines which were used to titillate, entertain, and amuse; Annual Report. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1934Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
197692 pages. "To the materialistically scientific Occident one of the most maddening characteristics of the Chinese people is their ability to work out a subject in great detail theoretically, combined with their absolute infifference to the practical application of all this beautiful theory. And in no field is this better illustrated than in the realm of music." - from page 1. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear to publisher's red cloth. A superb copy. Book
193048 pages. Features: Stress Analysis of Fittings; Wind Tunnel Anomalies; Application of Anti-Friction Bearings to Airplane Wheels; Sprinkler Equipment for Hangars; Safe Flying Through the Use of Instruments - recent progress in the installation of radio beacons and the development of blind flying instruments should greatly diminish the hazards of flying; Applying the Radio Range to the Airways - a discussion of methods of adjusting the space pattern of the radio beacon system so courses may align with fixed airways; Lehigh Airports Competition; Photo ad for Western Electric's Airplane Telephone; Stromberg-Carlson ad with photo of radio inspector F.E. Gray and Douglas Air Mail and Express plane; Nice illustrated ad for the International Aircraft Exposition at St. Louis, Feb. 15-23, 1930; Los Angeles County promotional ad; News of the Industry; Airports and Airways; New Aircraft - with photo of Curtiss Tanager; New Developments; Wright Aeronautical Corp. ad on back cover documents how Commander Byrd flew their Cyclone and Whirlwind engines over the North Pole, then the South; many more vintage ads. Loss to top corner of back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
197138 pages. Features: Joseph Crawhall; Silver Hallmarks and the Law; Stolen Property; Cumberland Arms Fair; Navigational Instruments; Gold and Silver Boxes; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1924xviii, 323 pages. Index. Many nostalgic black and white plates. "The object of this book is to gather together the known facts about lead and present them with a commingling of practical information and romantic sidelights to capture and hold those good folk who like facts well enough but prefer them to be not too dreary and long-faced." - Introduction. The twenty-three chapters include: Mining and Smelting, Characteristics, In Paint, In Building Construction; Babbitts and Solders; The Printer's Metal; In the Chemical Industries, Lead in Ammunition, In Musical Instruments, A Drier of Oils, Lead in Glass, Pottery and Enamels, Lead in Rubber, Lead from Radium, and more. Bit of writing atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Light foxing. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. One-inch opening in cloth between top of front board and backstrip. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating vintage reference. An interesting gift idea for anyone involved in lead-related mining or manufacturing. Book
196115 pages. "By playing and analyzing someone else's ideas, the talented musician can stimulate his own imagination and discover ideas that formerly were beyond his scope." - page 2. Complete and unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Contents tanned with age. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1989BMJ stamps on first few pages. Clear diagrams and images.
1989BMJ stamps on first few pages. Clear diagrams and images.
1973115p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
196780 p., illus. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
1942491p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1978239p, illus. Paperback Very good condition, Spiral bound Includes instruments of the Middle East and the Orient.
1969118 p. illus. 22 cm. Paperback Very good condition
1876vii, 128 p. illus. 20 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
1916195p. Hardcover Very good condition
199376p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
19054 p. l., 221, [1] p. front., illus., plates. 20 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, lightly foxed
1995No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A clean tight copy. 192pp.
1995No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bump to front page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with very light creasing to front upper edge. 214pp. This is a series of intimate interviews with the musicians in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and some who work with them. It reveals the men and women behind the music, those who love it, those who now hate it. The members of an Orchestra spend almost all their waking hours together, and on tour their sleeping ones too and this book takes us inside the intense and fascinating world of the professional musician as nothing has every done before.
1950A few paragraphs side-highlighted in final chapter only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny mark to lower corner of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with a little soiling to rear, minor uneven sunning to front, sunned spine and slight rubbing to upper edge. 255pp. A study of the interesting border-line territory between physics and music designed primarily for those with a main interest on the musical side but with an appendix including some of the more mathematical material.
1979No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 136pp. A study which includes instruments which survived from the High Renaissance and the changes which took place in the instruments used as we progressed through the Baroque period to the new classical style of Mozart and Haydn.
