Pittsburgh, PA: McClintic-Marshall Co., [1930]. Softcover. Fine. 8.25" x 11", 48 pp, extensively illustrated, in original stapled wrappers with gilt lettering. Fine condition. The Ambassador Bridge is an international suspension bridge that connects the cities of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. It was constructed by the McClintic-Marshall Company (which would..... Item #22426
Hardcover. Very good. Bound manuscript, 9 x 7 inches, in contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with gilt title and floral decorations on spine. [335] pp, with several charts (two folding) and 86 meticulously drawn illustrations in black ink, as well as a few unfinished pencil drawings. No author name or..... Item #21590
Seattle Light City Boundary Project, [1967]. Boundary Dam, located on the Pend Oeille River in Northeastern Washington, supplies a substantial portion of the hydroelectric power used by Seattle residents. A concrete, double-curvature arch dam rising 340 feet from bedrock, it is 740 feet long at the top, 32 feet thick..... Item #20994
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VIII: pp ix, 238, indexed, with color frontispiece and 16 other plates, as well as figures and line drawings in the text; Volume IX: pp ix, 284, indexed, with photogravure frontispiece and three plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Volume XIII..... Item #21727
Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. One of 500 copies printed. 9.25" x 11", xviii, 362 pp, with index and illustrations. Front hinge cracked after title page, corners bumped, light soiling to lower corner of front board. Binding otherwise sound, text clean. "A pioneer in..... Item #22992
London: Edward Stanford, 1876. Hardcover. Good. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, 180 pp + 16 pp publisher's ads. Original maroon cloth shows some rippling and old insect damage, and there is some staining to the fore edge of the text block and the rear endpapers. Binding tight, text clean. Part of..... Item #21518
San Francisco: Printed for the Society, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Single issue, 87 pp, in original wrappers. A few minor library markings, smal chip at upper spine; very good. Contains a short early paper by Nobel-prize winning mathematical physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1925). Although this is a short note..... Item #22280
Goose and Sons, 1974. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Revised edition (first published 1960). 390 pp, indexed, illustrated with more than 500 photos and line drawings. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very mild spine slant, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and has a...... Item #14040
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. NASA Technical Note (TN) D-5231. 18 pp, stapled wrappers. Original address label from mailing (to Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories) on back cover; initials on front cover. Otherwise unmarked, with minimal wear. Item #11465
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Near fine. Authorized edition. Two volumes in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front board of Vol. II, very slight sunning to spines, else fine. Illustrated. As described in the Cambridge edition, this work "began as an expansion of..... Item #22454
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition (first published 1844). 4to, pp. xi, 108, 216, with coloured frontispiece and three plates (one double-page) containing 136 figures. Original brown cloth boards show moderate wear and soiling, spine cloth dulled. Hinges a bit wobbly, some foxing to endpapers and..... Item #22547
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. NASA Technical Note (TN) D-5187. 24 pp, stapled wrappers. Original address label from mailing (to Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories) on back cover; initials on front cover. Otherwise unmarked, with minimal wear. Item #11468
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. xvii, 371 pp, with illustrations, indices. Light shelf wear and soiling to boards including bumped corners; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Author's preface: "The main aims of this book on Industrial Gases are to give a general account of..... Item #2260
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. xv, 88 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations. Original cloth backed boards, with gilt lettering on front board. Some light wear and toning to edges; else clean and sound. Dust jacket is lacking front flap has..... Item #2199
London: John Weale, 1852 [1859]. Softcover. Near fine. 4 x 7 inches, pp xii, 179, 24 (publisher's catalogue), in original stiff wrappers with blind-stamped design and paper label. Title page dated 1852, but publisher's catalogue dated 1859. Title written by hand on spine, spine professionally repaired, previous owners' names (most..... Item #15144
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xviii, 327 pp + illustrations + publisher's catalogue, with frontispiece, bibliography, index. Light wear to boards and edges, paper over front hinge split; text clean. No just jacket. Holder writes in the Preface: "In this present volume I have..... Item #2581
Lowville, NY: By the Author, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. 69-page text volume accompanied by 25 loose plates (as issued), housed together in a green cloth folder and slipcase. Hough, a New York physician and botanist, personally collected the samples and created the sections with a specialized veneer-cutter he invented. Each..... Item #22712
London: Walter King, 1891. First Edition. 255 pp, indexed. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, rubbed at extremities. Ink stamps of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation; Los Angeles Lighting Company; and Southern California Gas Co. on endpapers. Paper over front hinge cracked, but binding sound, text clean. Includes..... Item #18335
Dearborn, MI: Edison Institute, 1936. Softcover. Very Good. 430 pp, illustrated, in original green printed wrappers. Spine toned and lightly creased, contents clean. Signed with short inscription by Jehl ("to Kelly Campbell with best wishes" ) on front free endpaper. "In these pages is presented a picture of Menlo Park..... Item #2959
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title on spine: The Life of Erasmus Darwin. 8vo, pp. iv, 216 + publisher's ads, bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf; paper over front hinge is cracked..... Item #22990
Pasadena, CA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. NASA Technical Report 32-1358. Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 1969. 21 pp, in stapled wrappers. Initials on front cover, otherwise unmarked, with minor cover..... Item #11469
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Near fine. Large, detailed folding table, accompanied by one text page, in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear, contents clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 1. "The accompanying table has been prepared with a view..... Item #2845
ournal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. 1 pp + 2 (folding tables), in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few short chips and tears to edges; text clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 3. Tables..... Item #2876
Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dawson's Book Shop, 1982. Hardcover. Very good. Baja California Travels Series #46. 185 pp, with bibliography, index, illustrations. Rubbing to spine ends, small spot of abrasion to cloth on front joint, internally sound and clean. Item #22985
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, [1928]. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket. First printing of this edition.414 pp, indexed. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front free endpaper, a touch of sunning to top and bottom edges of boards, else a...... Item #21868
