Chicago: Electric Appliance Company 1897. First Edition. 567 pages (plus additional tipped in pages). 8vo. 7 x 10 1/4 inches. Publisher's red cloth with black embossed lettering. Minor soiling to the covers. Clearly used, but still sound. Very Good. Cloth.

A copiously illustrated general catalog of electrical supplies from..... More

Salem: Printed at the Observer Office 1847. First Edition. 116 pages. 4to. Publisher's original cloth. This copy has the bookplate of William Goddard Weld, and an inscription on the back of the frontispiece: "Wm G. Weld with the regards of Chas. E. Endicott" (perhaps a relative of the author). Minor..... More

London: Bernard Quaritch (Vols I and II) / Richard Taylor and William Francis (Vol III) [ 1839, 1844, 1855 but 1878-1882 ]. Later printing. Three Volumes. Vol I: vii, 574 pgs + 8 folding plates. Vol II: [5], viii, [v-vi], 302 pages + 5 plates (two folding). Vol III: [5]..... More

[ Lancaster, PA ]: The Physical Review 1947. First Edition. 1139-1146 pages. 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (8vo). Original green printed wrappers. Offprint from The Physical Review, Vol 72, No 12, pp. 1139-1146, December 15, 1947. A touch of fading to the edges, otherwise a fine copy. Near Fine..... More

Cambridge: At the University Press 1878. First English Edition. xxiii, [1-blank], 466, [2], 24 pages. 2 leaves (pages 309-12) with shallow horizontal tears at the top margin not affecting text. Original publisher's brown cloth. Carefully erased ink signature from title page resulting in thinned paper. Acid ghosting from endpapers on..... More

Braunschweig: Henry Litolff's Verlag circa 1858. Zehn Bändes im Zwei [Ten volumes bound in two]. Volume One: [2], 159, [2], 154, [2], 154, [2], 150, [2], 151 pages. Contains Bändes I-V, each with separate title page and contents. Imprint is Braunschweig, Henry Litolff's Verlag. Volume Two: [2], 159, [3], 149..... More

Riverbank, Geneva Ill. Riverbank Laboratories Department of Ciphers 1954. Reprint. 3-9,[1-blank] p. 28.5 cm. Comb binding. Soiling to the front cover, clean internally. There were 2 issues of this publication - both are marked 1917 on the front cover. The second issue (as offered here) was published in a comb..... More

Troy, [NY]: Moffitt & Lyon 1802. First Edition. 285, [3] pages. 12mo. 4 x 6 1/4 inches. Polished calf with black spine label "Electricity" with minor loss. Light wear to the extremities. Minor worming in the gutter base of spine affecting a few letters in the Preface. No flyleafs (as..... More

A. Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy 1773. x, [2], 460 pages including tables + 11 illustrations on 5 plates. 8vo. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbling worn, overall minor wear to the binding. Marbled endpapers dampstained. Marbled page edges. Unobtrusive occasional marginal dampstaining throughout. (pages 157-160 mis-numbered or bound out of..... More

Leipzig: E. B. Schwickert 1842. First Edition. 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Oblong. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Ex-libary "Deventer Bibliotheek", with blue ink-stamp on title page and a few labels on the spine. Otherwise unmarked. An atlas volume containing all copper plates, with most plates clean, and a few..... More

Philadelphia: Joseph & James Crukshank 1803. [1]-152 pages plus 13 folding engraved plates. Later calf spine and corners over marbled boards. New endpapers when rebound. Browned throughout but not brittle. Very good. Boards.

Rink (Technical Americana #2396) notes that Robert Gibson's "A treatise of practical surveying... The 8th ed....... More

Japan: Electrotechnical Laboratory 1956. First Edition. [2], viii, [2], [10 plates], [1]-214 pages. Original blue cloth with white titling on spine and front panel. Minor bumps to corners and wear to the extremities. Errata sheet tipped in on rear pastedown. INSCRIBED by author Komamiya "to Mr. Albert E. Slade with..... More

[ New York ]: 1900-1902. First Edition. 3 1/2 inches by 6 inches. A small lined notebook with Grant's address on the inside cover noting 232 exposures which he took, Each entry includes the Date of Exposre, Plate used, Exposure, Time of Day, Stop Lens and Light. Images taken include..... More