1795Frankfurth am Main, Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1795. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (10),652,72 pp. and 15 fine large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.
1840Paris, 1840. Folio-oblong. Cont.hcalf. Back worn. Lithogr.frontisp. (Chemin de Fer de Londres á Birmingham) and 77 lithogr. plates. A little brownspotted.
1821Darmstadt, Johann Wilhelm Heyer, 1821. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (16),XV,358,(12) XV,(1),356,(8) pp. and 30 folded engraved plates in folio. Some scattered brownspots.
1819München, Fleischmann, 1819. Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. Stamps on title-page. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (2),VI,92,(2) pp. and 1 fine lithographed plate as frontispiece. Text with faint scattered brownspots. Plate clean and fine.
1875Basel, B. Schwabe, 1875-78. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Gilt lettering. Spines rubbed. 2 spine-ends repaired. Small cracks to two joints. Stamps on title-pages. (4),157 (2),68,(4) pp. and 76 lithographed plates in colours. Internally clean.
1906Chicago, 1906-14. 4to. Bound in 3 hcloth and 9 hcalf. Very richly illustrated.
1921Chicago, Western Society of Engineers, 1921. Orig. full cloth, frontcover and back stamped in blind. (2),196 pp., 45 illustrations, mostly full-page, incl. photographic reproductions of calculating machines designed by Pascal, Leibniz, Burroughs, Felt, and others. Fine and clean. With a typed letter in 4to, signed by the author, to Mons. Paul Jeannin in Paris, Turck thanks Jeannin for his letter congratulating him on the success of this book, and recalls with pleasure going with Jeannin to see Pascal's calculating machine in Paris. 21 lines dated Wilmette, Ill., l1 11 décembre, 1925. (in French). Also with Felt & Tarrant shipping lebel addressed to Jeannin, incorporatiing a picture of their invention, the Comptometer, the first practical desktop calculator. This was presumably used on the package that held this book.
1880Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-87. 4to. Bound in 10 contemp. half calf bindings, paper labels pasted on spines. Stamp on titles. With numerous woodcuts and lithographic plates, many coloured and folding.
1919ref. 23207Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Farm Bureau. Very Good. 1919 to 1948. First Edition. Binder. Some issues are in binders others are cloth bound. Includes: May 1919; 1924 through 1928 missing Sept 1927 ; 1929 spine is missing but the contents are "fine" ; 1930; 1933; 1934; 1936; 1937; 1939-1946; 1947 missing August & 1948. Postage will be calculated at cost via media mail. Price is for all 21 volumes. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Los Angeles County Farm Bureau unknown
1825ref. 10057Ilmenau: B F Voight 1825. Third Enlarged & Revised Ed. Contemporary paste paper boards. Good with some wear to the binding; spotted and toned throughout. 8vo xxviii 1 - 737 3 - errata pp. An invaluable reference for varnishes lacquer work color and its application to metals glass paper leather canvas woods stone etc. The author was also responsible for a number of other craft and technology guides e.g. his two-volume work on bookbinding. The book offered here covers all aspects of the problems of fixing colors and finishes to all kinds of surfaces. It also includes recipes and notes on polishing and preparing surfaces. Engelmann citing only this third edition; no printings in American holdings in OCLC. B F Voight hardcover books
1969Book is in excellent condition with bottom front corner bumped slightly, a little sunning to lower edge are only flaws. Heavy weave black cloth covers with artist's name in gilt. Binding is solid and square, covers otherwise have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Two page intro, the remainder of the book is composed of large plates of Mr. Ungerer's work, one per page on heavy paper. Unpaginated, about 60 plates with bright red endpapers. Handsome book. Dust jacket is price clipped, though the price is still there, with heavy edge wear, small tears at corners, scuffing, scratching. Nice photo of artist at back flap playing with a small ball on the floor excitedly. "Rube Goldberg in the spirit of the Marquis de Sade." "The people in his ink drawings are a race of energetic masochists, wearing Spiderman masks and boots, who have created elaborate and impossible machines for total gratification, using pullys, suction cups, conveyor belts, bicycles, rowboats...vending machines... " -- Village Voice. Publisher's page is marked "First Printing".
1801ref. 36133Berlin, F.T. Lagarde, 1801. Nice contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. XXIV,498,(1) pp., 60 textillustrations in woodcut and 5 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.
1795ref. 31504Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1795. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel on back. A small tear to upper part of back, taped. Small stamp on title and verso of. XII,204 pp., texttables and 16 folded engraved plates (numb. 1-14 and A-B) showing signalling-houses, constructions, geometrical and optical features of signalling, symbols etc. etc. Plates with scattered brownspots, but a good copy.
1795ref. 46457Dresden und Leipzig, Johann Samuel Gerlach, 1795. Cont.hcalf. Gilt spine Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on foot of titlepage. Engraved frontisp. (38),408 pp., 5 folded tables and 32 folded engraved plates. A few brownspots but internally fine.
1869ref. 51913Berlin, Nicolaische verlagsbuchhandlung, 1869. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (2),124 pp. and 31 fine chromolithographed plates. Many textillustrations in woodcut.
1835ref. 52299Weimar und Ilmenau, Bernh. Fr. Voigt, 1835. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVIII,291,(1) pp. and 7 folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots throughout.
1749ref. 29110Paris, J.A. Jombert, 1749. 4to. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Gilt titlelabel in vellum on back. Top of spine defective, repaired with a tapestrip. Stamp on title. XXIV,247(1) pp. and 36 large folded engraved plates (plans and maps). A large engraved vignette by Cochin. A few brownspots, but copy with broad margins.
1786ref. 52011Paris, L'Imprimerie de Monsieur (et) Firmin Didot, 1786-1816. Bound in 3 contemp. uniform full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines, title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XLII,453(4),402,(4)VIII,310 pp., 11 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table.
1840ref. 51909Wien, Ludwig Förster, 1840. 8vo a. Folio. 2 contemp. matching hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. XII,451 pp. and Atlas with 38 lithographed plates, some folding. Brownspots to the first 5 leaves in textvolume, some scattered brownspots.
1776ref. 55660Edinburgh, Balfour, Cadell, Nourse, 1776. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Upper 2 compartments repaired. Scratches to frontcover. Stamp on title-page. VIII,163 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, on good paper.
1801ref. 60694Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1792 - 1801. 8vo. Uniformly bound (leather on vol. 6 somewhat more darkend and spotted) in 6 contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of wear to extremities and small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Internally fine and clean. (12), 420 pp. + 2 folded plates (16), 480 pp. + 1 folded plate (12), 510 pp. + 5 folded plates. (8), 460 pp. + 6 folded plates (12), 524 pp. (12), 571 pp. + 2 folded plates (14), 548 pp. + p plates.
1885ref. 53262'S-Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1885-96. 8vo (Textvols.) a. 4to (Platevols.). 8 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 5121032353"393 pp. and 255 double-page lithographed plates.
1887ref. 55331London, Printed for private Circulation, 1887. Large 4to. Original blindtooled full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Gilt title on upper cover. Very light wear along edges. (4),85 pp., 33 plates, partly in phototypie. Clean and fine.
1793ref. 39942Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1793-94. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, spines gilt and tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on titlepages. XXVI,374XIV,388XII,220 pp. and 19 large folded engraved plates. The first few leaves in all volumes a little brownspotted. A few scattered brownspots.