Collecting Figural Tape Measures : With Price Guide *SIGNED BY AUTHORS*
1995160 pages. Signed by the Arbittiers inside front cover. Over 500 excellent colour photographs. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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1959192 pages including index. Black and white illustrations. Attempts to provide insights into a few fundamentals of the subject and an understanding of some of their applications. Specifically designed to cover the needs of Alberta schools in introductory physics, the text includes supplementary material which makes provision for the above average student. Chapter titles include: Measurement; Density and specific gravity; Buoyancy; Force, Work and Power; Experiments on Mechanics; Nature and propagation of light; Photometry; Reflection of light - mirrors; Refraction of light - lenses; Colour; Optical instruments; Experiments on light; Modern developments. Includes answers to chapter questions. Book
1945140 pages including glossary. A handbook of scientific inspection. Explains how quality control may be maintained using the many gages and gage instruments manufactured by the DoAll Service Company. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Unmarked. Average wear. Some yellowing to endpapers. Black and white photograph of technician upon front board. Lettering upon front board is worn. Book
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
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
1936Approx 40 pages. Features: Electrical Installation for a Modern Engraving Plant; The Static Transformer; Maintenance of Electrical Contacts; Problems of Hairdressing Equipment Installation; The Westinghouse Metal Rectifier; Enclosures for Industrial Motors; Electrical Recording Instruments; Time Delay Devices; Control Gear for A.C. Motors; Recent Patent Specifications. Average wear. Unmarked. 3 inch horizontal tear to fore-edge of front cover, half-way down. Book
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
199110 page board book created specially for very young children. Babies and toddlers will enjoy the beautiful illustrations of musicians and their instruments. Pre-schoolers as well as school-age children will learn from imaginative adult readers about orchestras, Beethoven and the joys of music. Average wear. Unmarked. Several phantom markings upon front cover. Book
1931Approx 3/8" thick. Covers: Negotiable Instruments; Obtaining Legal Security. Occasional light pencil markings. Book
1978Approx 1.25" thick. Covers: chassis, cooling system, fuel system, engine, driveline, front axle, rear axle, tires, parking brake, air system, electrical system, cab, switches and instruments, steering system, hydraulic system, body, traction system, hydraulic brake system, miscellaneous (lube chart). Average wear and soiling. Occasional marks. Binding intact. Book
19751.5 inches thick. Includes the following sections: Servicing and Maintenance; Engine; Electrical System and Instruments; Transmission and Rear Axle, Brakes, Front End and Steering Gear, Suspension and Wheels, Body. Several creases and tears to covers. Binding intact. Moderate wear and soiling to contents. Book
1935296 pages including black and white illustrations. Intended primarily as a text for students in Money and Banking in the senior courses of commercial high schools in Canada. Chapters include: Rise of Money; Canada's Monetary System; Credit and Credit Instruments; Monetary Standards; Rise of Banking; The Banking Business; Branch Banking in Canada; Deposit Accounts and Reserves of Canadian Banks; Loans and Investments of Canadian Banks; Supervision of the Canadian Banking System; Crises and the Canadian Banks; History of the Canadian Banking System; Stock Exchanges; Domestic and Foreign Exchange; Inflation of Currency; The English Banking System; The French Banking System; The Banking System of the United States; Other Banking Systems of the World; The Central Bank of Canada. Very light wear. Contents clean and bright. Prior owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp upon back endpaper. No other markings. Binding like new. Light blue cloth boards. Splendid copy of this excellent reference. Book
1995160 pages. Signed by the Arbittiers inside front cover. Over 500 excellent colour photographs. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1998Unpaginated. Includes auction results sheet. Excellent photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Book
1978Features: Botanical Plates; The Doctor's Home - Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village; Medicines out of the Earth; Mrs. Traill's Books for Collectors; Feeding the 19th Century Baby; Preconfederation Medical Instruments; Colours from Nature; Flowers on English Pottery and Porcelain; Packing the Panacea - Medicine Bottles in Upper Canada. Sound copy. Magazine
1719259 pages plus table of contents. Two fold-out illustrations. "In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virtue and the remedies against every vice and considerations serving to the resisting of all temptations, together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of Devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnished for all necessities." - from title page. Author was Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles I. Original boards and back strip. Above-average wear externally. Front board loose. Back hinge cracked. Few marks upon endpapers. Textblock intact. Library label upon backstrip. Sticker removal at top of title page has removed a minor quantity of print. Book
198544 pages. Undated. Circa 1980s? "Introduces the main instruments of the modern orchestra, as well as some of the more unusual ones, detailing their construction, usage and historical development." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1969Features: Science Policy in the U.S.S.R.; Nuclear Tracks in Solids; Wound Healing; Truth and Proof; Hormones in Social Amoebae and Mammals; Ultraviolet Astronomy; The Phalarope; Analytic Instruments in Process Control. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1918Features: The Coming Sweep Through Serbia - article by Lovat Fraser; Amassing men and metal to smash militarism; Some fine Australian 'Shows'; - my impressions of the great offensive, by Hamilton Fyfe; British Naval Might; Anglo-American Activity in and behind the line; Wars living pictures watched by little people; Instruments new and old that play a part in the world war's tremendous orchestra; Messengers of Mars in training for the field; Where the British are advancing by ancient ways; Up and Down - British & German Giants of the Air; The Luck of 'Lighthouse Luke' - an airman's adventures; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Magazine
1973383 pages. Index. "This interdisciplinary volume presents electronic knowledge vital to the efficient application of nuclear chemistry theory... Helps the chemist obtain better results, choose appropriate components, and save setup time on experiments." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket heavily worn but now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Overall a sound copy. Book
1983Features: Learning and Teaching: improve your playing; Do you have what it takes to teach?; Choosing teachers; Learning with Tapes, Computers; Teaching at College; Alternative Schools; Renting Instruments; Helpful Hardware; and more; History in Nashville; Frets Repair Shop. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1984Features: The new acoustic music - David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor; New acoustic music sampler; the family tree of acoustic music; Nashville action; Roy Clark on Stage; Jimmy Henley; Pickups vs. Microphones; Inside the JEMF; Frets' 5-year index. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1985Features: Electronic matchmaking - magnetic pickups, piezo transducers, and microphones; Inside the Black Boxes; Louder, Please! - the search for amplification without sacrificing tone; Market survey of today's acoustic/electrics; Spec sheet for 90 switched-on instruments; Readers Poll Awards. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1932Topics: "Break-Through" and how to cure it; An All-Power A.C. Eliminator; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Choosing a Modern Valve; Tuning and Adjusting the Sonotone; A Simple Coil Winder; Noises - Their Cause and Cure (part 2); Making a Mains Transformer; Simple Chassis Construction - how to make up the all-metal type of chassis; The Heart of Your Set - part 3, output valves; Little Mistakes We All Make; Receivers and Their Records - The Portadyne "Atlantic" Portable S.G.4; Cossor Melody Maker kit model 337; Simple Tests Without Instruments; Below 100 metres; Telsen Jupiter S.G.3 - two-page ad; and more. Heavily worn. Bit of writing on front cover. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Covers seperated and loose but present. Book
1932Topics: Care and Upkeep; New Ideas in Wireless Cabinets - Part 1; Whe Why and the Wherefore - 2; About Variable Condensers (coupon clipped from page 80 removed part of this article; Practical Indoor Aerials; Variable Mu Valves - 1; How to Use a Blue Print; A Trip Round Europe on the Long Range Express; What will the Dolphon Do? - the Dolphin Three; The Voice of the Set; Simple Tests Without Instruments; Test reports of complete receivers - the Varley D.C. Receiver; Resistance-Controlled Volume; Below 100 Metres; Volts and Valves; and more. Above-average wear. Small clipping from lower back cover. Book
193728 pages. Features: Cover photo of a Beechcraft 18 on Canadian-built Edo Floats; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover boasts of a 1208 mile flight from Canada to Mexico in under five hours by a Twin Wasp; Imperial Oil ad on back cover; and more. Laid-in is a 23.5" x 15.5" Imperial Oil map of Canada showing the airports, intermediate aerodromes, seaplane ports, and seaplane bases of Canada; A Heated Subject - a call for joint research into the protection of power plants operating in Canada's extreme temperatures; Nice illustrated full-page ad for Kollsman Instruments;Nice Gold Flake cigarettes full-page ad; The Toledo Cruise - article with photos; The Fairchild "Sekani" - article with photos; The Toronto Flying Club - 10th anniversary; Photo of the new Boeing XB-15 bomber in flilght; R.C.A.F. Appointments; The Sunshine Air Council; Fantastic centrefold cutaway illustration of the Fleet Freighter; McGill Receives New Glider; Northland Air Fleet Rests; Aviation Highlights from Winnipeg; News from the West Coast; The Students' Forum; Old Country Gossip - with amazing photo of Aviation's Boldest Experiment - the first Mayo Composite Aircraft - Mercury on top and Maia on the bottom; Nice ad for Cub Aircraft of Hamilton, Ontario; Condensed News from the Clubs; M.A.I.C. News; Imperial Oil ad on back cover shows how ski planes are speeding what used to be done by showshoe!; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
