London: Benn Brothers Limited 1921-1924. First Edition. Vol. 1: 282 pages. Vol 2: 227 pages. Vol 3: 339 pages. Three volumes complete. 4to. An exlibrary set (properly de-accessioned) nicely rebound in faux leather cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and inset on front panels. Original cloth title, author, and volume..... More
Paris / Caen: Ballay et Conchon / Buhour 1857. First Edition. [1]-147 pages. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. Spine taped with inked calligraphic title. Old penciled price on front cover, otherwise minor wear to the wrapper extremities. Withdrawn from the Burndy Library, with Bern Dibner gift label on front flyleaf..... More
[New York, NY]: Springer 2005. First Edition. XVI, 520, [2] pages. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Ex-library Rowland Institute for Science with spine label, ink stamps on several pages and textblock edges, and rear library pocket. Clean internally. A sound working copy. Very Good. Boards.
"Founded in 1981 as the “last..... More
New York: Edison Phonoplex / Edison Manufacturing Company c1892. First Edition. 38, [2 (blank)] pages. 8vo. Publisher's tan wrappers printed in black. Stapled with wrappers affixed to the text block. Six figures in the text, plus additional illustrations in several of the advertisements. The address for Edison Phonoplex "Edison Building..... More
![Item #29684 Edison Phonoplex System of Telegraphy [cover title]. Thomas Edison](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29684_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759536386)
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 and page edges. Clearly used, but still sound. Very Good. Cloth.
A copiously illustrated general catalog of..... More
London: Electric Telegraph Company August 1st, 1856. A lithographed map by Day & Son, with individual sections cut and then laid on thin linen, the whole folding into a cloth case. The publisher's cloth case (9 x 6 inches) is titled "The Electric Telegraph Company's Map of Europe" (worn, splitting..... More
no place: Evang. Fosterlands-Stiftelsen no date. Third Edition. 8 pp. 3 x 4 1/4 inches. Green printed wrappers. String bound. Corner creased, tightly trimmed bottom edge affecting series title and number. Clean internally. List of titles #33-64 in the series on rear cover. Very Good. Wraps.
Published by the..... More
New York: self published June 2, 1880. ALS on laid paper (8 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches) signed by Cyrus W. Field to Professor Hilgard (Washington). Writing is clear and readable with signature bold (noting one small stain at the extreme end of the C in Cyrus). Folded as if..... More
New York, N.Y. Flatiron Publishing, Inc. 1994. First Edition. 142, [24] pages. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. A bright clean copy with "Hammer Tested" sticker affixed to front wrapper. SIGNED by Hammer Technologies co-founder John Kuenzig on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps.
"Hammer Technologies provides Hammer - the most complete..... More
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories 1950. First Edition. 675 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth with previous owner name (C. K. Birdsall) printed at base of spine panel and signature on front wrapper of January issue. Bound privately from separate issues, this copy does not have a volume title page. The entire..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1892. VI, [2], 295, [1] pages. 8vo. Half leather over marbled boards. Minor wear and scuffing to the leather extremities, front joint just starting at top. Bright and clean internally. Very Good. Boards.
'This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communications, television and..... More
![Item #22533 Untersuchungen Ueber [ Über ] die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Dr. Heinrich...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22533_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1384373749)
New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1893. First Edition. xvi, [1]-258, [6-(ads)] pages. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles. Several small stains to the binding, otherwise a bright copy with the signatures of two scientists Winfield Hill and Silas W. Holman (Boston 1893) on..... More
London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1867. First Edition. 14 pages plus three sheets (folding). Disbound. 11 x 7 1/2 inches (measured with illustrations folded). Minor mis-folding/tearing to the illustration sheets. Very Good. Disbound.
A provisional specification left at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on April..... More
London: various 1882-1923. The collection offered here includes two offprints, one early pamphlet, and a signed letter from Kingsbury to his son on a Turkish telephone company letterhead. 1) J. E. K. [ Kingsbury, John Edmund ]. The Telephone in Principle and Practice: Its Origin and Development. London: David Bogue..... More
Chicago: Kempster B Miller 1915. First Edition. ii, 63 pages. Grey printed wrappers. Very Good. Wraps.
The consulting engineer Kempster has been retained by the city of Chicago to determine technical alternatives to the Automatic Telephone Situation as operated at that time by the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company..... More
[Washington, DC]: Government Printing Office 1846, 1880. 528 pages. Large 8vo. Cloth. WITH 8 pages. Henry's Memorial was published in 1880 and has several letter fragments affixed to the front pastedown (Smithsonian envelope fragment addressed to Dr. William P. Vail" with Vail's note thanking the sender for the book). The..... More
New York: No 9. Murray Street: W. J. Johnston, Publisher circa 1876. Later printing. [6], [7]-188 pages. 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Publisher's mustard cloth with stamped decorations in black and gilt. Cancel author's name pasted on title page (the original author name was "John Oakum"). The frontispiece is..... More
London: Richardson & Company 1861. First Printing. [3- publisher ads, count includes front pastedown and endpaper], [foldout leaf with Plates I & II], [1 leaf Plate IV], [i-vi], [ 1 leaf Plate VI ], vii-viii, [ 2 leaves Plates III and VII ], ix-xi, [1-general contents], [11 - "PART I"]..... More
London: R. Hunter 1823. First Edition. [6], [1]-83, [1-(blank)], [1-(errata)], [1-(blank)] pages + frontis + seven engraved plates (one folding). 8vo. 9 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Later 1/4 calf over drab boards with gilt spine lettering and leather tipped corners. Various penciled notations from previous booksellers presumably on the..... More
Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute 1910. First Edition. vi,[2],464 pages. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth. Raised spine bands with 6 compartments. Leather is worn at the extremities especially the corners with some scuffing of the leather. Binding sound. An interesting 6 months of the Journal with articles on the Aeronautical Exhibition..... More
Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute 1909. First Edition. vi,[2],496 pages. 8vo 1/2 leather over pebbled cloth. Red and brown spine labels in six compartments. Ex-library from the "Royal Engineers Library" London with their monogram in gilt on top board and stamp on title page. Leather is worn at the extremities especially..... More
New York, N.Y. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated October 1950. First Separate Edition. 1-7, [1-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. (275 x 213 mm) Stapled wrappers, printed in grey, light blue, and black. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. A bright, clean copy. Fine. Wraps.
The..... More
![Item #28616 Memory Requirements in a Telephone Exchange [Bell Monograph]. Claude E. Shannon, Elwood](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28616_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635806160)
[London]: [Taylor & Francis] March 1950. First Separate Edition. [1], 256-275, [1-blank] pages. 9 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches. Self-wrappers stapled and glued. The five examined offprints [as here] have been oddly but consistently constructed. The first leaf (wrapper title) is tipped onto a gathering formed by pages 257-272 (signed..... More
![Item #29292 Programming a Computor [sic - Computer ] for Playing Chess [offprint]. Claude E....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29292_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710948554)
[Menasha, Wis., and Providence, R. I.]: [American Mathematical Society] February 1950. 90-93 pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. A single sheet folded but lacking the original blue printed wrappers. Fine. Wraps.
The American Mathematical Monthly first published this article in Vol 57, (Feb. 1950), pp 90-93. We offer here..... More
Manchester, New Hampshire and Long Island City, N. Insuline Corporation of America circa 1946. 12 x 10 1/4 inch binder (oblong 4to ) with back cloth spine over textured paper boards gilt. Binder contains five double sided 78 RPM records (9 3/4 inch diameter) in sleeves. Instruction booklet is small..... More
![Item #20850 [ Training 78 RPM Record Set ] International Morse code, A Course of Practical...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20850_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620850678)
