Category: Science & Technology

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"The Electrician" PRIMERS. being a series of helpful primers on electrical subjects, for the use of students and general readers. Vol. I./Volume 1 -- Theory

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. : 1891

Seller ID: 017871

Condition: Fair

A title intended "to briefly describe in simple and correct language the present state of electrical knowledge." Gilt titles, advertising on end papers, 126 pages + advertisers' page + 15-page catalogue of other titles available from the publisher, illustrated. Worn corners, scraped spine, hinges beginning, light internal soil, slits to spine edges, general wear.
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The Clay Worker, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, December 1901

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, T.A. Randall & Co. : 1901

Seller ID: 018573

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

"The Official Organ of the National Brick Manufacturers' Association of the United States of America," which was "a journal devoted to all clay working interests." Contains articles, news and announcements pertaining to the clay manufacturing industry, as well as numerous advertisements for various state-of-the-art machines invented to keep the process modernized and profitable. Pages 502 (inside front cover) through 599 (inside back cover), + four-page index (at front), illustrated. Edge/corner wear, bottom 2" of spine pulled back, crosscracks, some cover soil, short edge tears, 3/4" x 1/2" c...
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Yarn Sizing and Moist Air Drying Machine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Darwen, Joseph Hibbert & Co., Limited

Seller ID: 018359

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

No date. A promotional brochure for the "Ideal" Moist Air Drying Sizing Machine. 12 pages, illustrated. Soil/staining/handling wear to covers, turned corners, light edgewear, top left corner of back cover torn off, full-length vertical fold.
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Yarn Sizing and Moist Air Drying Machine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Darwen, Joseph Hibbert & Co., Limited

Seller ID: 018366

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

No date. A promotional brochure for the "Ideal" Moist Air Drying Sizing Machine. 12 pages, illustrated. Mild edgewear, moderate handling wear, soiling to back cover.
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Lost Lullaby (signed)

By: Alecson, Deborah Golden

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1995

Seller ID: 016841

ISBN-13: 9780520088702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The story of Alecson's perfectly formed baby girl, born "with massive irreversible brain damage" from oxygen deprivation while in the womb, and the subsequent moral and legal battle by the parents to let their baby die rather than be kept alive through technological means. Pink boards w/cream cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering, 207 pages (including selected bibliography and list of resources for parents). Moderate general wear, light soil, in like dust jacket.
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ARCHAEOASTRONOMY, The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, Volume XVI, 2001

By: Carlson, John B., et al (editors)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, University of Texas Press : 2001

Seller ID: 018695

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A journal devoted to the study of how previous civilizations aand cultures understood and used astronomical phenomena. This issue contains essays on the subject by Manuela Incerti ("Solar Geometry in Italian Cistecian Architecture"), John Cox ("The Orientations of Prehistoric Temples in Malta and Gozo"), Martin Van Strydonck, William H. Waldren, and Michael Hoskin ("Indications of a Possible Astronomical Orientation of an Archaeological Feature in Pretalayotic Mallorca [Spain]"), Clive L.N. Ruggles ("Heiau Orientations and Alignments on Kaua'i"), and Anthony F. Aveni and Albert Ammerman ("Earl...
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The User's Guide to Atari 400 800 1200XL Computers, Software, & Peripherals

By: Consumer Guide (editors of)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket 49503 / Publications International, Ltd. : 1983

Seller ID: 018783

ISBN-13: 9780671495039

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

"This User's Guide will lead you step by step through all phases of learning how to use your new computer: from setting it up, to learning what each key does, to expanding your system with peripherals. Specific exercises are included for each key on your computer's keyboard, plus easy-to-understand instructions and clear photographs. It also provides software buying recommendations and a guide to users' groups." (pretty much everything that the 1983 version of you needed to introduce yourself to the world of computers and all the time-wasting activities that would abound in the dumpster fir...
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ELEMENTS OF DRAWING AND MENSURATION APPLIED TO THE MECHANIC ARTS. A Book For the Instruction and Use of Practical Men

By: Davies, Charles

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes & Co. : 1846

Seller ID: 018697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good

Davies (1798-1876) was a professor of mathematics at USMC, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the University of New York before eventually becoming professor of higher mathematics at Columbia College, New York. He wrote and re-wrote more than 20 books on mathematics and related subjects (maybe if I had ever read one of them I would know what a quadrilateral equation was -- but probably not, since merely hearing the term "planar convex quadrilateral" makes me break out in hives, and just reading the question "In the prolate spheroid ACBD, the transverse axis AB = 90, and the re...
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Construction Safety, Security, and Loss Prevention

By: Fullman, James B.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons : 1984

Seller ID: 019239

ISBN-13: 9780471868217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A title from the publisher's Practical Construction Guides series, with chapters on industry safety, planning safety programs, preconstruction preparations, site preparation, excavations/utilities/foundations, erecting and closing in the structure, installing mechanical systems/completing the interior, and finishing the job. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering/rule to front cover/spine, 286 pages (including appendices, index), illustrated. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends, scuffed cloth, original price stamped in red ink to top of first end paper, previous owner's name/course/residence to top ...
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RADIO CRAFT, Lot of 3: February/Feb. 1944/'44, September/Sept. 1944/'44, May 1945/'45

By: Gernsback, Hugo (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Springfield, Radcraft Publications

Seller ID: 018361

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fair Reading Copies

A three-issue lot of the popular radio electronics magazine that began in 1929, and existed under a variety of titles until 2003. Gernsback, considered by many to be the father of science fiction (along with a couple of guys named H.G. Wells and Jules Verne), had what have to be the greatest pseudonyms is history. He was Gus N. Habergock, Grace G. Hucksnob, Beno Ruckshagg, Erno Shuckbagg, Grego Banshuck, Greno Gashbuck, and Kars Gugenchob. Now c'mon -- was Richard Bachman the best you could do, SK? Although I guess I should cut you some slack, since Gernsback had a lot more to work with when i...
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Introduction to Ore Geology and Metallogeny for Mineral Exploration Geologists (With an Introduction to Economic Geology) (signed)

By: Goossens, Pierre J.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Rangoon, Self-Published : 1975

Seller ID: 018996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

"A text prepared for the students of the Post-Graduate Training in Mineral Exploration, Diploma in Applied Geology, Department of Geology, Rangoon Arts and Sciences University, Burma. (UN/UNESCO assisted Project)". Inscription reads: "To Sterling,/En souvenir of our Burmese days!/Pierre". Green cloth w/gilt spine letteringTypescript, 274 pages (numbered on rectos, versos blank), illustrated w/figures tipped-on throughout). Scuffed/lightly soiled cloth, small scrapes to top edges, lightly soiled fore-edge, mildly warped front cover. This weighs more than the average book, so additional po...
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THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, Problems, Prospects, Perspective

By: Greyson, Bruce, and Charles P. Flynn (editors)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C Thomas : 1984

Seller ID: 019045

ISBN-13: 9780398050085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"This anthology samples for interested professionals the more significant scholarly forays into what has come to be known as the near-death experience." Contributors include the editors, Carl B.Becker, Daniel B. Carr, Kimberly Clark, John C. Gibbs, Michael Grosso, Anthony Lee, Raymond A. Moody Jr., Russell Noyes Jr., Annalee R. Oakes, Kenneth Ring, Ernst A. Rodin, Michael Sabom (who also contributes the foreword), Carl Sagan, Ronald K. Siegel, and Donald J. Slymen. Blue cloth w/silver lettering to front cover/spine, 289 pages. A nice copy in dust jacket w/rubbing, thin impressions/scratches...
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PEAT, ITS MANUFACTURE AND USES, Final Report of The Peat Committee, Appointed Jointly by the Governments of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario

By: Haanel, B.F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ottawa, F.A. Acland : 1926

Seller ID: 014217

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Mines Branch publication No. 641, the result of an undertaking intended to determine whether peat might be used as "an auxiliary source of fuel supply, especially in the central provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where shortage of domestic supplies of fuel was most keenly felt." 298 pages (including appendices), illustrated. A bit cocked, minor edgewear, some cover soil.
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LOCOMOTIVE OPERATION, Valves, Valve Gears, Valve Settings

By: Harding, J.W. (prepared under the supervision of)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S. : 1924

Seller ID: 016728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

#267B in the International Library of Technology. Contains chapters on locomotive valves, the Stephenson valve gear, locomotive management, breakdowns, oil-burning locomotives, the Type D duplex stoker, and locomotive value setting. Green cloth w/red cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, marbled end papers, illustrated, three fold-outs. Circular stains to cloth of front cover (probably the ubiquitous coffee cup), moderate edgewear, one frayed corner, other corners lightly worn, moderate wear to spine ends, 2.5" tear to left spine edge, 1" scrape to join of green/red cloth on back cover, some...
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Applications of Radiogenic Isotope Systems to Problems in Geology, Short Course Handbook

By: Heaman, L., J.N. Ludden (editors)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, Mineralogical Association of Canada : 1991

Seller ID: 019221

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The editors "attempt to provide an up-to-date review of the applications of long-lived radionuclides in the earth sciences." Pp: [11], (1), 498 (including references), illustrated w/graphs/charts. Moderate general wear. Internally tight. Uncommon.
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Thaddeus Lowe, America's One-Man Air Corps (inscribed/signed)

By: Hoehling, Mary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner, Inc. : 1958

Seller ID: 018175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The story of "flamboyant showman, starry-eyed dreamer, dedicated scientist, Thaddeus Lowe," considered by the author as "the Founding Father of the United States Air Force, because of the balloon equipment and aerial reconnaissance techniques he developed during the Civil War." Abraham Lincoln's generals were skeptical about military balloons, but the President was so excited about the balloon and its possibilities "that he had its base installed on the White House lawn." Inscription reads, "Best Wishes To/Jessie H. Moffitt/Mary Hoehling." Blue cloth w/black pattern decoration/lettering to fro...
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LAYING DOWN THE LINES, A History of Land Surveying in Alberta (signed)

By: Larmour, Judy

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Victoria, Brindle & Glass Publishing : 2005

Seller ID: 018395

ISBN-13: 9781897142028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The author "recounts the incredible challenges and hardships faced by land surveyors as they struggled with fast-flowing rivers and dry prairie lands, freezing temperatures and hungry mosquitoes, stifling bureaucracy and new technology, to help create the Alberta we know today." Black cloth w/silver foil spine lettering, 326 pages (including endnotes, appendix, a note on sources, index, acknowledgements, brief author biography), illustrated. A bumped corner, bumped spine ends, lightly scuffed cloth, small indentation to front cover, in lightly scuffed dust jacket w/a couple of small indentatio...
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FUTURE CONSCIOUSNESS, The Path to Purposeful Evolution (signed)

By: Lombardo, Thomas

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Winchester & Washington, Changemakers Books / Change Makers : 2017

Seller ID: 018306

ISBN-13: 9781780999852

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

"--a masterpiece, a must-read book, not only for futurists, psychologists, social scientists, scholars, and academics of every type showing them how to improve their thinking about future consciousness, but also for ordinary people to improve the quality of their future daily lives." Inscription reads: "To Paul,/Hope you enjoy/the book./Tom Lombardo/8/20/2018". 805 pages, including references, + four pages advertising other Changemakers Books. Light corner wear, tiny soil mark to rear end paper. Internally tight and clean.
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Geology

By: Miller, T.G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, W. & G. Foyle : 1958

Seller ID: 013287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A title from the Foyle's Handbooks series. "This volume is an elementary guide for readers who have little or no knowledge of the science of geology, and its intention is to provide a grounding for more detailed exploration." Paper over boards, 112 pages (including bibliography). Moderate general wear.
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Forging of Iron and Steel

By: Richards, William Allyn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand Company : 1915

Seller ID: 017737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"A text book for the use of students in Colleges, Secondary Schools and the Shop." Olive cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 219 pages (including appendix, index) + one-page listing of other titles published by Van Nostrand, illustrated. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly soiled edges, faint cover soil, moderate surface wear to covers, moderate general wear.
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FALLING, How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill (signed)

By: Soden, Garret

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Co. : 2003

Seller ID: 014887

ISBN-13: 9780393054132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. "Beginning with the tree-climbing lessons of our earliest ancestors," through to explaining "today's extreme sports and thrill-seeking technology," the author "tells the astonishing story of how taking a fall has evolved from an experience that the ancients used as a metaphor for damnation to one so prized that today millions crave its intense rush." Red and yellow boards w/red foil spine lettering, 342 pages (including acknowledgements, notes, selected bibliography, index), illustrated. An internally tight and clean unread copy.
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THE MECHANICS OF HOISTING MACHINERY, including Accumulators, Excavators, and Pile-Drivers, A Text-Book for Technical Schools and a Guide for Practical Engineers

By: Weisbach, Dr. Julius, and Professor Gustav Herrmann

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London & New York, Macmillan and Co. : 1893

Seller ID: 014591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

From the translator's preface: "The translation herewith presented to the engineering public has been made from Professor Herrmann's revised edition of Weisbach's great work on Engineering Mechanics. Of this work several volumes are already familiar to English readers through the translations completed successively by Messrs. Coxe, Du Bois, and Klein, and treating respectively of Theoretical Mechanics, Steam-engines and Hydraulics, and Machinery of Transmission. The present section, however, has never heretofore appeared in English print, although its great value has been recognised by all the...
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Category: Science & Technology