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Springfield: D. B. Spooner & Co., Photographers 1858. First Edition. Title page and "statistics" (four pages) plus 62 portraits w/tissue guards and interleaved blank leaves (most with signatures or inscriptions from the sitter). Frontispiece engraving of the college signed: "Thos. Chubbuck, Engr. Springfield, Ms." and "Published by J.S. & C...... More
Paris: Chez Crochard 1820. First Edition. 448 pages plus 5 plates (1 folding). 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with black spine labels. Early label (Coquard a Epinal) on front pastedown. The entire volume of "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Vol. Quinzieme [XV 15] offered. Surface wear/damage to..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1949. First Edition. viii, 753 pages. 8vo. Dark blue/black cloth with replaced endpapers. Page edges speckled. Spine lettering "Bell System Technical Journal" | "Vol 28, 1949". Ex-libris "P. Caporale" with owner's name lettered on front panel and signature on front pastedown endpaper. This..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: [ Barnard & Simonds Co., Inc. circa 1964. First Edition. 8 x 10. Post bound with printed oversized wrappers. Over 100 leaves printed on one side, each focused on one or two pieces of furniture. Several colored pages as well. In rear are several oversized items. A...... More
London: Holland Press 1972. Reprint. [6],v-vii, [1 blank], [1]-325, [ads 1] pages. 30 plates. Publisher's black cloth. 9 1/4 x 14 inches. Corners bumped. Purple dj front panel has jagged tear near spine panel upper left, and is clipped lower right corner front flap. Minor fading to the spine panel..... More
William H. Tipton. Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society for the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College 1882. First Edition. x, 475 pages. Plus 17 albumen photographs by Tipton, at least some in a stereoview format. Publisher's blue cloth with black ruling. Minor wear to the cloth and extremities. Previous owner name on..... More
[Edinburgh]: National Museums of Scotland 1989. First Edition. xiii, 320 pages. 11 1/2 x 8 inches. Original illustrated wrappers. Small tear to the front wrapper at head of panel. Bright and clean internally. Near Fine. Wraps.
From the reference library of Philip Stanley (collector, scientific instrument dealer) with his..... More
[Edinburgh]: National Museums of Scotland 1989. First Edition. xiii, 320 pages. 11 1/2 x 8 inches. Original pictorial wrappers. Bumped corners, creasing to the wrappers. Laid in is the original order form for the book. Very Good. Wraps.
"Perhaps not surprisingly, the National Museums of Scotland possess the largest..... More
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Doubleday-Hill Electric Co 1916. First Edition. 1475 pages. Thick 4to. (7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches) Publisher's printed two tone yellow cloth. Covers soiled, bumped at corners. Sound. Last hundred pages with marginal dampstaining lower right corner. Occasional dampstaining at corner tips elsewhere. Well illustrated, occasionally in color..... More
New York: Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc. 1927. First Edition. An unframed press photograph (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) with the original paper description affixed to rear. Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. credit instructions stamped on rear. Some minor offsetting of ink apparently from paper description on lower 3/4..... More
![Item #26732 [Photograph] Edison Radios First Phonograph's Words! Thomas A. Edison, Governor Moore](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26732_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1509117375)
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
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger for the Library Committee of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 1875. First Edition. xv, [17]-236 pages. Plus thirteen plates with albumen photographs by Frederick Gutekunst. 8vo. Publisher's vibrant blue cloth with highly decorated gilt spine. #991/1000 copies. A bright clean copy, noting old tape repair..... More
Chicago: H. G. Fischer & Co., Inc. 1st quarter 20th century. An exceptional salesman's book with photographs of products made by the company. There are twenty seven 7 1/2 x 10 inch photographs laid down on linen. The whole in a five ring binder with the company's information impressed on..... More
![Item #26769 [Salesman's Catalog] H. G. Fischer & Co., Inc. Physical Therapy Equipment Chicago...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26769_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1510239715)
[ Gloucester Massachusetts and others ]: [ self published ] 1928-1935. First Edition. An archive of material related to American Inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. The archive includes 4 letters to Janet Mabie (of Eaton Centre, New Hampshire) all from 1935. 2 comment on a Mr. Lear "who curiously enough..... More
![Item #24510 [ Inventors ] Small archive of material related to John Hays Hammond Jr. including...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24510_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1447257382)
Troy: Luther Pratt 1797. Second Edition. ix, [2], 12-180 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Frontispiece engraving "The AUTHOR Relating the HISTORY of his TRAVELS to his Friend" present (often missing). Full leather binding with red leather label and simple gold ruling on spine. Previous owner name "John S. Popkin..... More
C. E. Cook. Lynn [ Massachusetts ]: Josiah W. Heal [ 1879 ]. First Edition. [100] pages. Not paginated. Oblong 12 x 9 inches. New leather spine and corners over original cloth boards gilt. Fifty thin pasteboard leaves affixed to binding structure with linen hinges. The entire book is dampstained..... More
Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co. Printers 1873. First Edition. 607 pages + 5 regular plates + 28 woodburytype images (frontispiece of the Phillips and Wooodford Wells Tarr Farm and 28 separate woodburytype portraits of oilmen). Complete. Thick 8vo. Expertly rebound in sympathetically matched cloth with front cover and spine panels..... 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)
Svabinsky, Max ; Sudek, Josef. Hradci Králové: Sporitelna Královéhradecká 1939. 95, [6] pages. 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Blue cloth boards with vellum (?) spine, thin paper slipcase. Portions of the very thin plastic dj protector still present (material has shrunk over time). Several old cellotape pieces (some glue..... More
Baltimore: Wm. Minifie & Co. 1849. First Edition. vi, [7]-127 pages, 56 pages of plates including the frontispiece. 8vo (7 x 10 inches). 1/4 leather over cloth boards with leather corners. Wear to the leather overall, head of front joint just starting to split. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Non-authorial..... More
New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [ AIEE ] 1924. First Edition. [4], 1369 pages. 4to 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Publisher's blue cloth with 2 sets of blindstamped rules on front and rear covers and volume title and date in gilt on spine. Endpapers browned as usual..... More
Paris: Crochard 1820. First Edition. 448 pages. Early temporary binders paper boards (light blue paper over very thin pasteboard), laid endpapers and stub. Evidence that the textblock was originally stab-stitched and then sewn when the binding was applied. Paper spine label with manuscript titling, and paper label and 2 chalked..... More
[Genessee County, New York]: Not published 1863-1864. First Edition. 360 numbered pages plus notations on endpapers. Folio (9 x 13 3/4 inches). Stamped reverse calf with leather with diced leather reinforcements on the edges and center of spine. Three compartment labels on the spine: "Journal | D | W.D.O. &..... More
Paris: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 1950. First Edition. XII, 408 pages. Original cloth boards with black and red stamped titles. Corners lightly bumped, minor soiling to boards. A nice copy. Light browning to internal paper as usual. Includes a card laid in from Perrin's son Francis: "Hommage..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. Later printing. xii, [1]-867 pages. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth. Yellow glossy endpapers starting to split near the hinge (reinforced with archival document repair tissue). Upper corners bumped. Rear cover and one spot on spine with very light dampstaining that appears to have been..... More
