Knowles, DonMareMagnum
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1995Brand new set of 2 books. Book
1995337 pages. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1976579 pages. "Develops the theory of atmospheric motion through a balanced presentation of the mathematical concepts and physical principles that are necessary to comprehend, explain, and predict the processes involved in the larger-scale flow patterns of the atmosphere." - from dust jacket. Tight and square with usual library markings and moderate wear. A quality reference copy. Book
1974429 pages. Index. References. "This very much revised edition of a well-known study first published in 1962 brings up-to-date the appraisal of the whole scientific background to the distribution of windborne material injected into the lower atmosphere." - from dust jacket. Book
1986532 pages. "Written to assist students and engineering practitioners to design wood structures, using the Limit States Design (LSD) method. It is intended to be both a textbook and a design manual. As a textbook, it sets out to explain the fundamental behaviour of wood-based structural wood products when exposed to service conditions and loads; as a design manual, it provides charts and graphs which can bring about efficiencies in the design process." - from Preface. Few details whited out atop front free endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1932313 pages. Prior owner names neatly upon front endpaper else unmarked with average wear to book. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
1950108 pages. Includes signed presentation letter from the private secretary to Mr. J.M. Laing. Colour illustrated endpapers. Excellent black and white engineering photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this handsome work. Book
1908284 pages. Black and white diagrams. Index. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
192596 pages. Undated - Circa 1920s? "...Describes to the young engineering student thte nature of jigs and tools, how they are designed and made, and what are their particular uses." - from Preface. Bookplate inside front board. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
1994537 pages. Index. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Excellent copy. Book
1999211 pages. Index. Glossary. Wonderfully illustrated in black and white. "Here, for the first time is a comprehensively researched and dramatically told history of the American marine engine industry and the men who created it." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Large dark stain to top edge - text unaffected. A worthy reference copy. Book
1995638 pages. Minimal markings to one page else clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
19470.6" thick. Black and white illustrations. "Compiled to facilitate the work of power plant, industrial and design engineers." - From foreword. Topics include: Steam Turbines, Centrifugal Pumps, IMO Pumps, Centrifugal Compressors, Helical Reduction Gears and Worm Reduction Gears. Prior owner's stamp upon all text edges. Name and details upon front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1949The special issue is extra large and contains 122 pages. Dozens of fantastic vintage photo-illustrated ads. Features: Fantastic Shorts one-page ad includes photos of their massive flying boats; Illustrated article on the first rocket motor built in Britain, the De Havilland Sprite; J.W. Dunne - Obituary; Rocket Fighters for Home Defense; Indian Ocean Survey - The first full story, told by J. Cowan, of a long-range survey flight from Australia to South Africa undertaiken by a Quantas Empire Airways' Lancastrian which left Sydney on November 14, 1948; Air Transport Affairs; Nice 4-page color ad for the Hawker Siddeley Group; Great color ad for the Apollo passenger aircraft; Nice one-page color ad for the Fairey Gyrodyne; The War Against Winter; Nice photo-illustraed Handley Page ad presents aircraft they have produced, past to present; For the Aeronautical Engineer; Flight Assessments During 1948-9; Magnificent 8-page colour illustrated ad for De Havilland's planes; A Review of Britain's Aircraft Industry; and much, much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this extraordinary issue. Magazine
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
1973Features: *Super* 15-page feature of reproduced 'Engineering Advancements and Detailed Specifications - 1936 Pierce-Arrow Twelve and Eight-Cylinder Chassis'; Front cover lithograph by Dannenberg of a 1936 7-passenger sedan; reproductions of promotional literature sent to prospective dealers in the summer of 1936; Reproduced photos (interior and exterior) of Pierce-Arrow's 1937 Special Custom Body Group; 6 pages of detailed specifications for the Eight, Model 1601 (1936), 1701 (1937), 1801 (1938) and Twelve, Models 1602, 3 (1936); 1702, 3 (1937); 1802, 3 (1938); Owen-Dyneto Starter & Generator, Delco-Remy Ignition; Moderate wear. Some soiling to covers. Bit of writing in upper corner of front corner else umarked. A sound copy. Book
1938128 pages. Many dozens of detailed diagrams and clear black and white photos. Topics include: details of design and construction; explantion of rating tables; explanation of service factors; method of rating reducers; Selection of reducers; Typical examples; Horsepower ratings and permissible overhung loads; Dimensions and weights; Outboard bearings; Assembly diagrams; Information necessary for selecting reducers; Flexible couplings; Speed increasers; Herringbone reducers combined with V-Belt drives; Standard Industrial installation views; Special units and installation views. Above-average wear and soiling. The first 28 pages each bear varying degrees of paper remnants affixed to them - most text and images are unaffected. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very detailed and informative catalog. Book
2005Please note: CD not included. 973 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality working copy. Book
1965150 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Expertly illustrated with black and white photos and detailed diagrams. Despite the fact that it appears to have been printed circa 1965 this technical work is sure to remain of lasting value to any engineer involved with rolling mill design or maintenance. Chapters include: Calculation of Roll Force and Power Requirements for Rolling Work; Basic Principles for the Design of Bearings for Rolling Mill Equipment; Maintenance and Installation; Examples of the Calculation and Design of Bearing Arrangements for Roll Neck Applications. Unmarked. Average wear. Short opening at bottom of front hinge. A sound working copy. Book
1956Features: Editorial - our cheap but costly funerals; How Alfred Valdmanis took Newfoundland to the cleaners by taking payoffs for government contracts; What's wrong with subsidies for the arts?; They're selling packaged weather - Paul Denison and Bernard Power and their Weather Engineering Corp. of Canada; Bruce Hutchison rediscovers New Brunswick; They're freezing people to life - by imitating hibernation (with cold) doctors are performing 'impossible' operations and saving accident victims, feeble babies and dying old folk; Nobody can Curl like the Campbells - Sandy Campbell and his 5 boys from Avonlea, Saskatchewan - story with photos; Movies of 1955 - Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst; nice colour ad for the 1956 Oldsmobiles; Wonderful full-page colour ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover. Address label on front cover. Restapled. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
194557 pages. "Offered for the purpose of acquainting the engineering personnel operating U.S. Maritime Commission's Liberty and Victory Ships with the piston ring details for engines and pumps using piston rings." - from title page. Company representative's sticker inside front board. Ink stamp of "Chief Engineer SS Henry Austin" atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy with attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon red front board. Book
189098 pages plus two pages of advertisements. Six black and white fold-out plates. Intended to "offer a little useful knowledge to directors of English gold mining companies on some of the simple principles that are too often ignorantly, or designedly, ignored, or surrounded with mystery by inexperienced mine managers; also to give to millmen a few suggestions, founded on a tolerably wide experience, in the commercial handling of many kinds of ores." - from Preface. Text divided into the following parts: Losses in Gold Amalgamation; Treatment of Gold Ores; Concentration of Gold and Silver Ores; Methods of Concentration. Prior owner's details in pencil upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Minor foxing. Red cloth covers soiled and stained with above-average wear - gilt lettering still legible. A worthy copy of this practical vintage work. Book
1916288 pages. Index. Black and white diagrams and illustrations. Fold-out 3-panel plan of Newreg Colliery. Intended "to provide students of coal mining and young surveyors with an explanation of the elementary principles which are applied to the practice of mine surveying and with a description of the constructional details of the instruments in common use." - from Preface. Markings throughout. Additional information laid inside back board and affixed to back endpaper. Above-average wear. Reading copy only. Book
1989158 pages. Stunning photos, in colour and black and white, of "45 great bridges in Europe and the United States, from little stone arch bridges to steel suspension bridges that span great distances." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Sure to please anyone in interested in the design, beauty and magnificence of bridges. Book
1978442 pages. Extensive footnotes, glossary, bibliography and index. Over three hundred black and white illustrations. "Traces the complete history of geared planetary machines from the inventions of Archimedes to the astronomical clocks of the present day... The only work of its kind... Concerned not only with the machines themselves but also with the craftsmen who made them and the uses to which they were put." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding intact. Minor moisture-induced undulating to inner portion of bottom edge of first 110 pages or so. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this masterful treatise. Book
