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189880 pages plus advertisements. Three fold-outs of figures. Revised edition of the 1890 first edition. Provides designs for steady load, snow and wind. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note that we are offering Part I only. Parts II and III dealing with bridge-trusses and arches are not included. Book
1957Several hundred pages - almost two inches thick. Attractive bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Surprisingly moderate external wear to maroon boards. Contents pleasingly clean and unmarked. A nice first edition copy. Book
1963292 pages. Circa 1963? Text in a Slavic language. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Useful working copy. Book
1939183 pages. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos and diagrams. "Presents, in one volume, descriptions, sketches, and photographs of the many scraper applications and the latest trends in methods and equipment." - Foreword. Printed on glossy stock. One-inch taped opening to bottom of backstrip. Prior owner's detail on second page, and faint initials atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage mining reference. Book
1962Please note: we are offering volume I only. xx, [2], 389 pages. Index. Footnotes. Fold-out maps. Black and white photographic plates. Colour map endpapers. Bookplate across from half-title page. Very light wear to unmarked book which bears light soiling to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket preserved in mylar. A quality copy of this very informative reference. COOKE [3e] p.137, DORNBUSCH 196. Book
194274 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Selection of Earth-Moving Tires; Two-Speed Supercharger Drives; The "Square-Wheel" Tractor Goes to Town (rubber tracks on crawler tractors aids war effort); Aircraft Carburetor Airscoops and Their Effect on Fuel-Air Metering in Flight; and more. Numerous vintage patriotic/military wartime ads. Printed upon glossy stock. Heavily worn and soiled. Binding intact. A worthy wartime copy. Magazine
1986324 pages. Index. Annotated bibliography. With 84 illustrations. "...Addresses physical problem formulation and engineering design techniques necessary for the effective use of CAD systems specifically meant for magnetics." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
197736 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: They Came Before Cook - Explorers who visited British Columbia before Captain James Cook; Church at Yale, B.C. Has Roots - it has seen over a century of service; The Haunted Man - An 1861 Victoria Detective Story; The Unknown Land - times have changed since American fisheries officer James Swan visited the Queen Charlotte Islands almost a century ago; Poundmaker - Son of Crowfoot; British Columbia's Hedley Camp and the Nickel Plate Mine; Reminiscences of hundred-year-old mining man John 'Jake' Turnbull; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1994537 pages. Index. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Excellent copy. Book
2007Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. 146 pages. Bibliography. "Takes the reader on a 1783 canoe trip along the Rideau Route, revealing the landscape as it appeared prior to any European settlement. Transcriptions and maps of Lt. French's 1783 survey, as well as those of Lt. Joshua Jebb in 1816 and Samuel Clowes in 1823-24, are included as first hand accounts of the route. This newly revealed pre-canal engineering achievement will allow readers to better understand and appreciate the enormous engineering achievement of the Rideau Canal. Profusely illustrated with maps and period paintings." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
196030 x 21cm. 14 one-sided engineering drawings and maps explain how land has been reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands. Text mostly in English. Features include: Zuiderzee Polders & Neighbouring Reclamations; Depth of the Zuiderzee Before the Enclosure; Soil Chart of the Enclosed Zuiderzee; Enclosing Dam of the Zuiderzee (1927-1932); Cross-Section of Noord-Holland's Polder-Landscape; Southern Flevoland Dyke Building Scheme; Construction of a Polder Dyke; Southern Polders Provisional Plan; and more. Quite informative. Undated, possibly 1960? Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1783In -8°, 17 x 23 cm., pp. 23, 3 ccb.; mezza pergamena. Antoine-Joseph Loriot (Pontarlier, 1716-1782) pubblicò a Parigi nel 1774 il procedimento da lui messo a punto per produrre questo particolare tipo di cemento. Si contano diverse edizioni italiane del testo, ma nelle biblioteche italiane risultano presenti solo la prima (1775) e la quarta (1800). Raro.
183464 SS. Geheftet. Folio. Seltene Verordnung über die Vorbeugung von und das Verhalten bei Tierseuchen (Milzbrand, Schafpocken, Maul- und Klauenseuche, Rinderpest, Wurmkrankheiten etc.). - Druckort und Datierung nach dem Exemplar der UB Leipzig; die Wienbibliothek nennt als wahrscheinliches Druckjahr 1838. Gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Nicht bei Engelmann (Bibl. vet.) oder Lesky.
24 Seiten; 3 Tafeln mit SW-Fotografien. Zeitgenössische Broschur. Betriebsordnung der Robert Bosch GmbH, Verkaufshaus Wien. Erläutert Einstellung und Kündigung, Arbeitszeit, Verdienstberechnung und Auszahlung, Urlaub, Erfindungen von Gefolgschaftsangehörigen und Ordnungsbestimmungen. 3 Tafeln mit SW-Fotografien bilden den ordnungsgemäßen Arbeitsablauf ab.
8vo. 45 pp, (1) ff. Partially uncut. Marbled paper spine. One US copy traced, at Chicago. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 842.
8vo. IV pp, (5)-11 pp. Paper spine. No US copy traced. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 969.
8vo. VI pp, (7)-40 pp. Original publisher's decorative wrappers, pages untrimmed. One US copy traced, at Chicago. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 845.
1934Typoskript. 3 Bll., 85 SS. auf 85 Bll. Marmorierter Halbleinenband der Zeit. 4to.
172320 SS. Geheftet. 4to. An der Universität Frankfurt/Oder gehaltene Inauguraldisputation über den Fehlwuchs von Haaren, insbesondere von Wimpern (Trichiasis, Districhiasis, Tristrichiasis), aber auch Ptosis etc. Der schlesische Mediziner Kortum (geb. 1698) sollte sich später auch als Apotheker und Chemiker betätigen; Rotermund lobt ihn als "berühmte[n] Chymicus, der mit den Farben glückliche Versuche anstellt" (Jöcher/A. III, 758). Seine "Neuen Versuche der Färbekunst", auf denen seine Bekanntheit hauptsächlich ruht, erschienen 1749 in Breslau. - Bindung gelockert. Vgl. Poggendorff I, 1306. Nicht bei Blake oder Wellcome.
8vo. VI pp, (7)-28 pp. Paper spine. No US copy traced. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.
8vo. 32 pp. Original blue printed wrappers. One US copy traced, at Yale Medical. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.
8vo. 26, (2) pp. Papered spine. Only edition of this rare surgical thesis on the history of enterorrhaphy, or the suture of the intestine. With a biography of the author (born in Torun in 1808) on pp. 24ff. - Some brownstaining and a repaired paper flaw. Wellcome III, 483. Callisen XI, p. 217, no. 1375. OCLC 246267418. Not in Engelmann or Waller.
1790VIII, 241, (37) SS. Halbpergamentband der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschildchen. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Zweite Ausgabe (zuvor Hamburg 1773 erschienen). Mit der physikotheologischen Arbeit "Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Tiere, hauptsächlich über ihre Kunst-Triebe" (1760) war Reimarus zum Mitbegründer der modernen Tierpsychologie und Ethologie geworden. Die unvollendeten und aus dem Nachlaß herausgegebenen "Angefangenen Betrachtungen" setzen diese Schrift zur Instinktlehre fort. - Ohne Bandzählung am Titel, jedoch der dritte Band von Schrämbls Ausgabe der "Allgemeinen Betrachtungen" (der entspr. Schlußvermerk am Textende unschön gelöscht mit Papierdurchrieb; das Folgeblatt (Register) leicht fleckig. - Einband berieben und fleckig; alter hs. Besitzvermerk am vorderen Innendeckel.
Paris, Librairie Polytechnique, Baudry et Cie., Éditeurs, 1894. 4to. mayor; XXX pp., 926 pp., con 562 ilustraciones entre el texto. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
8vo. 31 pp, (1). Paper spine. One US copy traced, at the University of Rochester. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.