LARGE COLOR PLATES. A Contribution to the History of the Fresh-Water Algae of North America de Wood, Horatio C - 1872

Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed, Not Published, By the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Very Good+. 1905. Limited 1st Edition. Hardcover. "Copy # 45 issued to Public Service Corporation of New Jersey for....excusive use, and should be treated as strictly private and confidential information". A convention of electric companies from across the USA, including General Electric, held at Hotel Champlain, Lake Champlain, N Y Sept 12-14 1905. Papers presented on all aspects of power generation & equipment. Loaded with B/W photographs, diagrams, graphs & drawings (many fold-out). Clean green cloth decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. [xv], 393pp. A few small paper tears along hinges. Technical; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 393 pages .

Trenton, N. J: John L. Murphy Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1889-90. Hardcover. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Volume II, parts I & 2. Catalogue of minerals found in New Jersey; of plants; of insects and vertebrates. Clean black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Texts tight, clean & intact . Part 2 with lightly bumped top corner and slightly darkened gilt lettering. Geology ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1466 pages .

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Leer más

Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 1816 4to. Ex-library, University of Hull, with a donation label from the author. Green cloth-covered boards, 341 pages, many illustrations from photographs. Two folding maps, one as frontispiece and one bound in with text block. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, with some spottiness, especially to the front board. Small split to back board/spine joint (about half an inch, at the top). Wear and fraying to extremities of spine strip. Library labels, stamps and remnants to front paste down, with library's blind stamped and subsequent withdrawal stamp to title page. Both maps in excellent condition.

London:: Printed for the Author, 1803., 1803. 8vo. [iv], xxvii, [1], 360, xxxi, [1] pp. 4 engraved plates of apparatus (Plate II acts as frontispiece, all plates are unnumbered), index. Crudely rebound in quarter calf, marbled paper over old boards. Armorial bookplate of Aske's Boy School, Haberdasher's Livery Company. Ownership signature on title of Jas. Law Jones, "rec'd from Messrs. Rickers staff & Jones -- 15 Sept. 1803". Scarce. First edition, vol. II only. With added paper (laid in): A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy. Review. Quarterly Review, 1809. 9 pp. pp. 153-161. "This clearly written and well organized book is called the first textbook of general chemistry written in the English language to be based on Lavoisier's new chemistry. The principles are illustrated with experiments." -- Cole. / Accum (1769-1838), born in Germany where the family operated a small soap boiling business. In 1793 Accum came to London to take a position at Brande, apothecaries to George II. He became friends with… Leer más

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Leer más

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. With a Frontispiece in colour by Edith S. Lees and 60 photographic illustrations by the Author and a folding Map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, upper cover framed in blind. 350 including the index pp. A very nice copy, near as fine, clean, tight, with very little evidence of age or use.. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME AND WELL ILLUSTRATED BOOK. A complete tour with illustrations through one of the most beautiful areas of greater Italy. The author cover the Valley of the Nervia, the road to San Remo, Bussana, the Impero and Arroscia, Albeng and along the coast to Finalmarina and Genoa where some fine rambles are described, on to Mote Portofino, to Varese Ligure and the Spezzia and beyond. A well illustrated book.

New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Signed by Stephen Jay Gould. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Caldwell-Clements, Inc. , 1950. Hardcover. Good. Radio and Television Retailing: Bound Magazines. Six issues: January 1950 - June 1950. Important trade publication for television, radio, appliances and more at the dawn of the golden age of television. With sales exploding at mid-century, technical advances and innovations came hot and heavy, and Radio and Television Retailing chronicled them, reviewed new products in every issue, published technical and marketing articles, industry data and forecasts, advertiser lists, extensive retail locations directories and more. Includes thousands of illustrated ads representing a virtual who's who of mid-century manufacturers of televisions, AM, FM, car and battery operated portable radios, record players, consoles, parts (some obscure, e.g., television screen magnifiers), servicing tools and equipment, antennas, television and radio stars, solid mahogany cabinetry (in its heyday) and more. Notably, televisions, FM broadcasting, portable radios and 45 rpm… Leer más

Syracuse, New York: Merrell-Soule Company, 1927. 12mo: 54, [2] p. Printed on yellow stock and bound with staples in illustrated brown paper wrappers (3" x 5"). A previous owner's name has been inked out on the first leaf; else an excellent copy. OCLC locates only one holding, at Virginia Tech. A recipe book for the then new and growing pastime of camping. All of these recipes make use of Klim dehydrated whole-milk powder. To make it more attractive to male consumers, the company chose seven famous adventurers to provide the recipes: Morris Ackerman, Charles S. Kirstead, James Tandy Ellis, W.H.H. Chamberlin, Harry C. Phibbs, George L. Catton, and Major Townsend Whelen. Includes a brief biography of each contributor. Klim was developed as a dehydrated whole-milk powder for use in the tropics, where ordinary milk tended to spoil quickly. It soon became a staple of scientific explorers, geologists, soldiers, and other jungle travelers who needed a lightweight dry ration that would keep for several days… Leer más