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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1949. First Edition. xvi, [2], 336 pages. 4to [10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches]. Publisher's blue cloth. The rare dust jacket is present, albeit chipped, stained, and worn (especially at foredges). Bright and clean internally. Near Fine / Fair. Cloth.
"The electromechanical Harvard Mark..... More
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: L. Lescau Photographie 1894. Four albumen photographs, three on cabinet card mounts, each matted. Image area showing through matt is 5 1/4 x 3 inches. Each mat has inked on the recto a number (4051-4054) and a description of the image. Some fading to each image. Least contrast on..... More
![Item #28963 [photographs, medical] Four photographs of patient Jules Pedoux [the first shoulder...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28963_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659375790)
Torino: Dall Stamperia Reale 1837-1841. Four volumes, each uniformly bound in 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Flat spines with labels in green and brown (now faded). Gilt titles and ruling. Volume 1 with minor worming to the base of the rear panel resulting in some separation of the leather at..... More
New York: John R. Bartlett and Associates 1888. First Edition. [2] (blank) + [2] (title page) + (plate 1) + iv (contents), (plate 2) + A-D, [1]-117 pages plus additional plates extra to the pagination (see below). Includes the sometimes missing addendum tipped in at page 67. Large quarto (12..... More
various: various 1934-1937. First Edition. A sammelband of fourteen offprints by Martin J. Buerger. Buckram cloth volume labeled on spine "The Weissenberg Method | Buerger | Copy 5". Various paginations. Wrappers bound in. Near Fine. Cloth.
"Karl Weissenberg (11 June 1893, Vienna – 6 April 1976, The Hague) was..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Self-published 1987. First Edition. Typed letter signed from Noam Chomsky to "Evelyn" (Evelyn Fox Keller) on MIT watermarked paper regarding the Italian publisher Eleuthera books: "My friends Amedeo Bertolo and rosella Di Leo, of Eleuthura books in Italy, wrote me that they'd contacted you about some possible collaboration..... More
NY: Sun Day Center [no date stated]. Advertisment on thin board. Oblong, 11 x 28 inches. A touch of wear at the corners, and a bit of small light foxing mostly to the verso. Very Good.
President Carter declared May 3, 1978 to be Sun Day - International Sun..... More
Melrose, Florida: Theodore R. Crom 1980. First Edition. xiv, 678 pages. Folio (12 x 9 3/8 inches). Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt decorations. An inscribed copy from author Crom to tool dealer Phil Stanley: "To Phil Stanley - in a good swap for some "pre-owned" metal. Hope, Phil, you..... More
Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerie 1863. VIII, 551, [1] (blank) pages. Plus original albumen photograph of Darwin mounted on thin board inserted before the half title (with original tissue guard still present). 8vo. 1/4 leather gilt over marbled boards. Light overall wear to the binding. Bookseller ticket (LW Schmidt..... More
New York, NY: American Society for the Advancement of The Hebrew Institute of Technology in Haifa, Palestine, Inc. 1946. First Edition. 148 pages. 11 x 8 3/8 inches. Publisher's printed wrappers. The entire issue offered, with the article by Einstein found on pages 16-17. Front wrapper detached with evidence 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
Prov. R. I. [ Providence, Rhode Island ]: Henry L. Tillinghast [circa 1855]. First Edition. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on recto only. 9 x 6 1/4 inches. Wove paper with no watermarks. Cleanly trimmed (with minor variation on upper edge). A nice impression noting some ink ghosting (presumably from other..... More
![Item #27427 [Broadside, Photography] Daguerreotype Saloon. The Subscriber having located his...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27427_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1561345576)
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press 1904 [but circa 1907-8]. First Edition. xvi, 650, [4] (ads) pages. Plus folding plate extra to the pagination. 8vo. Original dark green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front board, and blind ruling to boards. Corner tips and base of spine bumped..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press 1904. First Edition. xvi, 650, [4] (ads) pages. Plus folding table extra to the pagination. 8vo. Original light green cloth boards with black titling to spine and front board. Corner tips and base of spine bumped. Light wear overall, clearly a read copy. While..... More
Spartan Giordano (photography). Tallmadge, Ohio: Classical Science Press 2012. First Edition. xxxv, [1], 299 pages. Folio. 13 x 9 inches. Original green cloth with leather spine label. SIGNED "Magnify" with his signature underneath by author Raymond Giordano on the front flyleaf. Includes 185 pages of illustrations of 127 simple microscopes..... More
![Item #28839 The Discoverers' [Discoverer's] Lens : a Photographic History of the Simple...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28839_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637197396)
New York City [NY]: The Safety First League 1924. 236, [2] (index) pages + frontis. 11 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (oblong). Publisher's red cloth gilt. This copy INSCRIBED boldly by the author "Union City New Jersey Oct 29, 1925. To National Automobile Service Corporation. Yours sincerely Joseph Grondahl Author"..... More
Waterbury, CT: American Office - Print[ers] [circa 1860]. First Edition. Broadside. 12 x 10 inches. 25.3 x 30.5 cm. Decorative borders. Imprint is "American Office - Print - Waterbury CT." Circa 1860. A strong impression with a nice decorative border. Minor browning and offsetting to verso. An excellent example. Fine..... More
![Item #28939 [Broadside, Photography] SPLENDID DAGUERREOTYPE MINIATURES, TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE, BY...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28939_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656111305)
Marinette, Wisconsin: Self-published 1891. First Edition. One sheet of 15 x 10 inch bristol board. Black ink on white paper. Embossed stamp of “Reynolds Bristol Board." The assigned patent application serial number was 360,832 and it was received by the US Patent Office (USPTO) on August 2, 1890. The patent..... More
![Item #28161 [Original art, Design Patent] DESIGN PATENT 20,484 "Design for a Child's Toy"...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28161_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605143466)
New York, N.Y. Self-published 1941. First Edition. One sheet of 15 x 10 inch glossy bristol board. Black ink on white paper. Embossed stamp of “Strathmore Patent Office” The assigned patent application serial number was 100,087 and it was received by the US Patent Office (USPTO) on April 2, 1941..... More
![Item #28162 [Original art, Design Patent] DESIGN PATENT 127,054 "DRESS" patented May 6, 1941....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28162_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605143466)
[St. Louis, Mo.]: Self-published circa 1900. Three smaller images in a collage photographed, printed and mounted on thin board. The image is 7 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches, with substrate slightly larger. Creased and soiled, mount unevenly trimmed. "Cot and Stretcher", "Patented", and "J.A. Bishop, 634 S 7th St, St..... More
![Item #28954 [photographs, medical] Photographic collage of three images of "patented Cot and...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28954_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659375787)
Corner of John and Front Streets, Cincinnati Ohio: J. A. Fay & Co circa 1866. Single sheet, 43 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches. Previously folded, with minor dampstaining, tearing at the folds and minor edge losses. Unrestored, should be laid down archivally for preservation purposes. Likely a distributor or large..... More
![Item #26868 [Broadside] Labor Saving Machinery for Working Wood. J. A. Fay, Co](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26868_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1522285920)
[no place of publication stated]: [no publisher stated] [no date]. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. Silver print with glossy finish. Marked "473" in pencil on verso. Contained in an envelope marked "Lumiere" and "Abordage d'un canot" or "counting a canoe." Near Fine.
This is a rare still photograph from..... More
![Item #29043 [photograph] Early Photographic Still, Lumiere Entree Abordage d'un canot. Auguste...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29043_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687788284)
Hanover, NH: Bragg Hill Press 2023. First Revised Edition. xvii,[1-blank],357,[1-blank],[2] pages. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Pictorial paper boards. 80 lb satin paper printed in black ink. Profusely illustrated. For international orders, due to weight we must send international priority shipping not first class. Fine. Boards.
Although not..... More
Macao: East India Company's Press by P. P. Thoms 1815-1823. First Edition. Three parts in six volumes (Part I:Vols I-III; Part II:Vols I-II; Part III). Uniform quarter leather over rubbed marbled boards bindings. 4to. 12 x 9 5/8 inches. Spines are flat with gilt ruling and decorations and green leather..... More
