1887Hardcover (no jacket; black titles on front board and spine). xiv, 355pp + 111pp(!) ads. A few creases and marks on slightly worn boards; spine is a little sunned. Two minor nicks on BEP. Previous owner's name, stamp, and crayon on title page. Pages otherwise appear unmarked, and in very good condition for age. Illustrated. TS Used

Psychobabel & Skoob Books · United Kingdom€82.80

Schwarz, E. H. L.MareMagnum

The Kalahari or Thirstland Redemption

1920Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean tight pages with dusty very slightly marked slightly bumped boards, a little foxing and with rubbing to ends of sunned spine. Three fold-out maps in very good condition. 163pp. A study of the Kalahari Scheme designed to bring irrigation and drinking water back to the region where lakes and rivers are slowly drying up. Undated but 1919 is mentioned in the text as the latest drought data.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€39.81

Thoreau, Henry David and Dircks, Will H. (editor)MareMagnum

Walden

1886No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked olive green boards, gilt embossing to front, clear gilt lettering to spine, gilt top of page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed and dusty. 336pp. An account of the author's simple living in natural surroundings over two years in the 1850s. He lived in a self-built cabin at Walden Pond on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the time he made a number of precise scientific observations. Undated ca 1886.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€227.47

The EditorMareMagnum

First Book of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools - Revised and Corrected

1884No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with unmarked embossed brown cloth boards, dusty page edges, some loss of cloth to spine strip and no bumping to corners. 143pp. This first book covers the practical part of arithmetic published for use in schools in Ireland.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€28.43

Michael DawsonMareMagnum

Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition (Includes Source Code CD)

2006No marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight marking to page edges and covers curling outwards. 447pp. A complete lesson in Python programming designed for the absolute beginner. Source Code CD in wallet at rear of book.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€17.06

Gurr, Duncan & Hunt, JulianMareMagnum

The Cotton Mills of Oldham

1985No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked covers, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 60pp. A concise history of cotton making in the area around Oldham, details of local machine makers and a lengthy gazetteer of all known local mills. Well illustrated.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€39.81

Banwell, C.N.MareMagnum

Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy

1972No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasie to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to spine and no bumping to corners. 348pp. An elementary non-mathematical introduction to all forms of electro-magnetic spectroscopy.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€10.52

Nielsen, MichaelMareMagnum

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

2012University stamp to lower page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and bumping to lower corners. 264pp. A thesis suggesting we are entering a period of dramatic change in science because of the new tools available via the internet as we carry out the science in a networked fashion.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€11.37

David WeinbergerMareMagnum

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

2008No 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. 277pp. This book shows how anyone can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

Godley Books · United Kingdom€7.11

Brookline. Town Engineer.MareMagnum

Reports of the Town Engineer of Brookline, Massachusetts 1834-1918

1894Bound collection of reports some of which were extracted from larger reports Hardcover Good condition in 1/2 leather slightly rubbed

Readville Books · United States€32.45

American Society for Municipal ImprovementsMareMagnum

Official Proceeding of the thirty-second annual convention held at Washington, C.C., November 8-12, 1926

1927528p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Society of Municipal EngineersMareMagnum

Official Proceeding of the thirty-sixth annual convention held at Richmond, VA., October 13-17, 1930

1931624p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Society of Municipal EngineersMareMagnum

Official Proceeding of the thirty-ninth annual convention held at Milwaukee, WI., September 25-27, 1933

1934360p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Society of Municipal EngineersMareMagnum

Public Works Engineers' Yearbook, 1937. Proceedings of ... 1936 Public Works Congress held at Toronto, Canada ...

1937300p., illus. 17th Annual Proceedings of the International Association ... & 42d Annual Proceedings of the American Society ... Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Public Works AssociationMareMagnum

Public Works Engineers' Yearbook, 1941. ... Proceedings of the 1940 Public Works Congress, Detroit, ... & Western Conference

1941424p. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Public Works AssociationMareMagnum

Public Works Engineers' Yearbook, 1942. ... Proceedings of the 1940 Public Works Congress Held at New Orleans, La.

1942387p. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

American Road Builders' AssociationMareMagnum

Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention, American Road Builders' Association, January 10-17, 1931, St. Louis, Mo.

1931541p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! covers scuffed

Readville Books · United States€20.40

Allen, C. F.MareMagnum

Tables for Earthwork Computation

189338p. Hardcover Very good condition

Readville Books · United States€14.84

Macaulay, DavidMareMagnum

City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

1974Folio 112p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good

Readville Books · United States€14.84

Levine, Joseph S.MareMagnum

The Secret of Life: Redesigning the Living World

1993280p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good

Readville Books · United States€9.27

Fox, Michael W.MareMagnum

Superpigs and wondercorn : the brave new world of biotechnology and where it all may lead

1992209pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good

Readville Books · United States€14.84

U.S. Navy. Dept. of Marine EngineeringMareMagnum

Energy Analysis of Naval Machinery

1940xxii p., 1 l., [522] p. illus., diagrs. (part fold.) 24 cm. Hardcover Good condition; boards worn 27 chapters w/ fold-out diagrams. Each chapter separately paged. "All members of the detail instructing midshipmen of the second class in this department during 1935-1937 contributed to the first edition and all those so instructing in 1938-1940 contributed to the revision."--Pref. to 2d ed., signed: T. J. Kelcher, captain, U.S. Navy, Head of the Department of Marine Engineering.

Readville Books · United States€17.62

Beckenbach, Edwin F.MareMagnum