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

[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.

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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

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

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: 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

[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

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

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

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.

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Washington, [DC]: J. & G. S. Gideon 1845. First Edition. [1 (title page)]-24 pages. 8vo. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Lacks the original wrappers. Removed from a bound volume of papers. Disbound (lacking the stitching), lightly creased vertically, and with glue/binding remnants at the spine edge. Textblock has marginal..... More

Coldbrook Springs, Massachusetts: F. T. Viles c1880. 8 x 17 1/2 inches. An advertising assemblage related to the Holcomb Speaking Telephone, washed and laid down on archival tissue, in the form of a broadside. The top and bottom portions of the assemblage are lighter in appearance, the center portion shows..... More