1957191 pages. Index. Illustrated. Slight fading to edge area of front and back covers. Heavy browning to front and back free endpapers. Text pages very good.

Andmeister Books · United Kingdom€17.06

Dormer, PeterMareMagnum

The Meanings of Modern Design: Towards the Twenty-First Century

1990With 50 Illustrations. Notes on the Text and Index. Red cloth covers with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette on front cover. Dedication signed by author on front free endpaper. Rubbing to surface of dust jacket.

Andmeister Books · United Kingdom€13.65

Brady, Frank LawrenceMareMagnum

External Rendered Finishes: A Survey of Continental Practice

1938Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research - Building Research Bulletin No.16. With 18 figures and 5 diagrams. Green covers. 33 pages. Frontispiece of House in Zurich missing. Pastedown gutters cracked. Aged library label from University College London with red pen cancel date on front pastedown.

Andmeister Books · United Kingdom€11.37

Wilson, Frank W. (ed.)MareMagnum

Plastics Tooling and Manufacturing Handbook

1965Hardcover without dust jacket. Ex-library with usual array of stamps and stickers and a scuffs to spine. Rear board faintly marked and lower board corners bumped. Text and illustrations are clean and unmarked. AD Used

Psychobabel & Skoob Books · United Kingdom€14.09

Baker, A.L.L.MareMagnum

Limit-State Design of Reinforced Concrete

1970Hardcover in very good condition with an unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is edge and shelfworn with a couple of taped repaired tears and foxing to the spine. Chipped leading page edges of initial pages and foxing to the page block. Text is clean and unmarked, boards excellent. AD Used

Psychobabel & Skoob Books · United Kingdom€16.78

Thomas, W. NormanMareMagnum

Surveying

1939Hardcover with green cloth boards, no dust jacket. Faint marks to rear board and light foxing to page block face. Previous owner's details penned to FEP and a couple of small foxing marks to endpapers. Clean throughout and binding tight. AD Used

Psychobabel & Skoob Books · United Kingdom€33.55

Edmondson, HarryMareMagnum

A Treatise on Advanced Worsted Drawing

1928Signed C Edmondson (maybe the author's son) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, slight softening to spine ends, light foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A distillation of the author's thirty years of experience of worsted drawing and spinning providing the practical advice designed to assist the men responsible for the running of worsted machinery. It deals with the Bradford or 'Open' system. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK. A number of extracts are tucked in at the front - wool preparation advice from the Textile Mercury, a two-page flyer advertising the book, a review of the book in a Leeds newspaper cutting and the remains of the book's dust jacket.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€22.75

TeSla, Nikola and Childress, David HatcherMareMagnum

The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla

1993No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 351pp. An account of the inventions of Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia in 1857, who went on to work extensively on new electricity devices including transmission without wires, a death-ray, a submarine, a vertical take-off machine, thought photography, anti-gravity, time travel, Atlantis and much more.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€8.25

Heath RobinsonMareMagnum

Devices

1977No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, light tanning/foxing to page edges, bight gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with light creasing to edges, sunned spine and general traces of storage. 116pp. A collection of Heath Robinson's humorous inventions to assist in solving the predicaments of life. Originally published in 1940 as Let's Laugh to detract from the stresses of wartime.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€42.08

Hawking, StephenMareMagnum

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

2018No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 232pp. Stephen Hawkings' final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€7.11

Clark, StuartMareMagnum

The Search for Earth's Twin

2016No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 234pp. The story of the search for a distant planet like our own.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€5.63

French, Karen L.MareMagnum

The Hidden Geometry of Life : The Science and Spirituality of Nature (Signed By Author)

2012Signed 'Karen L' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 240pp. A journey into the heart of space, time, light and matter. The author explores the secret geometry behind everything, from the growth pattern of a fern to the chanting of a sacred mantra to the spiral twist of a galaxy, revealing that meaning and order are everywhere, if we only open our eyes and minds to perceive them.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€14.22

Tyson, Neil deGrasseMareMagnum

Letters from an Astrophysicist

2019No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper rear edge. 247pp. Popular scientist Neil de Grasse Tyson answers 101 letters from members of the public about science, philosophy and life.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€7.68

Shaw, S. BernardMareMagnum

Photographing Canada from Flying Canoes

2001Ex-library book with usual stickers, stamps. etc. Binding is solid and text is clean with no highlighting, underlining or

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€61.15

Oliver, Kenneth G.MareMagnum

Industrial Boiler Management: An Operator's Guide

1989Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text is clean. 412 pages, contents include: Air for Cumbustion, Fuels and Conbustion Principles; Fuel Oil Systems; Fuel Gas Systems, Water for the Boiler; Water-Treatment Methods; Internal Boiler Water Treatment; Combustion Controls; Boiler Trim,; Boiler Attendant; Getting Boiler on the Line; Record Keeping; energy conservation basics; fine-Tuning the Boiler; etc. 30 chapters in all, with 10 appendices; charts, graphs, mechanical illustrations. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€42.61

Chasis, David A.MareMagnum

Plastic Piping Systems

1988Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior text clean and unmarked; tight binding. 172 pages. Lots of b&w photos.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€21.33

Fuller, A.J. BadenMareMagnum

Worked Examples in Engineering Field Theory

1976Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 321 pages. Small tear at top of spine. This book provides a summary of the same theory covered in another book by the same author, titled Engineering Field Theory, together with a large number of worked examples and worked solutions. The first part of the book develops the concept of flux starting with electric flux and proceeding to applications in gravitation, ideal fluid flow, and magnetism. The second part introduces the concept of potential, again starting with electrical potential, and proceeds to applications in gravitation, electric conduction, fluid flow through permeable media, conductive heat transfer, ideal fluid flow, and magnetism. Attention is given to static fields, and although there is a chapter on electromagnetic induction, time -varying fields are not included. The book has 104 diagrams, 145 worked examples, and 244 problems with their worked solutions.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€60.27

Thomson, R. H.MareMagnum

That Man Thomson

1950Light orange cloth boards of book are oddly though slightly curved to dish the back cover, corners are sharp, very little edge wear. Inside front cover has what appears to be cutting from dust jacket pasted to it, front endpaper has random stamps pasted to it and remnants of something torn away. Back paste-down endpaper has been covered with neatly pasted clipping from Seattle Sunday Times with Thomson in large illustration with "The brains of the Administration". Page block is neat and clean with no marking of any kind, save date on contents page, binding solid. Contents include: Intro, Seattle in the eighties, The years of preparation, My work as city engineer begins, The impossible north tunnel and the sewer system, The railroad franchise fight, The Cedar River water system, The regrades, City light, The port, Lake Washington canal and the Duwamish Waterway, Federal appropriation for construction of the locks, The title to the site of the locks, Did you get everything done? "A Personal Record of the Dynamic City Engineer Who Foresaw and Shaped Seattle's Spectacular Rise from a Pioneer Outpost to a Great Metropolitan Seaport." 134 pages.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€133.98

Seims, CharlesMareMagnum

Mount Lowe: The Railway in the Clouds

1976A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 234 pages. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. Many b&w photos. A bit musty smelling. With more than 425 illustrations -- maps, documentary reproductions, equipment, rosters, car plans, bibliography, index. Large format: 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€32.45

Watson, Jane WernerMareMagnum

The World of Science: Scientists at Work Today in Many Challenging Fields

1958A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 216 pages. 8 1/8" w x 11 1/4" h. A bit musty smelling. Small tears, edge wear, and peeling laminate on price-clipped dust jacket. 265 color photographs and diagrams. Wonderful 1950's ultra-modern graphics in bright colors. "This remarkable book tells the activities of scientists working today in seven major fields: geology, astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. It is not a survey of the history and achievements of science, but rather an exciting look-over-the-shoulder at the men, in laboratories and in the field, who are making tomorrow's world."

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€23.18

Begamudre, Rakosh DasMareMagnum

Extra High Voltage AC Transmission Engineering 4th Edition

2011A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Bumped corners. Tear on dust jacket. 516 pages.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€60.27

Nafus, Dawn (ed.)MareMagnum

Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life

2016Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 243 pages with sections on Biosensing: tracking persons, The quantified self: reverse engineering, Health privacy in a connected world, Digital reproduction: reading the quantified self through Walter Benjamin, Field notes in contaminination studies, Personal genomics, etc.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€13.86

Brubaker, BillMareMagnum

Seamount

2016Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 168 pages with b&w photos, illus.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · United States€12.52

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