MILLER HUGH

The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field

Edinburgh, Nimmo Hay & Mitchell. 1889, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. excellent copy, navy cloth lightly rubbed to tips only, blind embossed babe on a globe to upper board, tidy gilt title spine, original coloured eps, hinges tight, closed edges untrimmed and slightly foxed, rubber name stamp to half- and title [Revd J COFFEY] 385pp, folding hand coloured frontis + 10 plates (line diagrams) some sections unopened at the rear, a stunning copy! one of the early works of speculative British geology in a later edition (the seventh). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 002030

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: British Geology Geography Science Victorian Fossils

MILLER HUGH

The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field

Edinburgh, Nimmo Hay & Mitchell. 1884, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. tidy copy, red cloth lightly rubbed to edges and corners, gilt embossed baby on a globe to upper board, gilt titled spine, backstrip heavily sunned losing all red pigment, original coloured eps, hinges tight, copperplate ink to head of "Note to Seventh Edition" is dated 1889 at "Manapori" but I cannot decipher the name, 385pp, folding hand coloured frontis + 14 plates (line diagrams), a tidy copy apart from the sunned spine, one of the early works of speculative British geology in a later edition (title page states Twenty-Fourth edition, being a reprint of the seventh edition). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 010721

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: British Geology Geography Science Victorian Fossils

MILLER HUGH

The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field

London, Dent. First Edition. Decorative Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. undated , assumed first thus in the Everyman Library edition, khaki cloth with gilt dec spine, some small tears or chips at head and small splits to lower joint, top corner of fep small area insect damage, binding showing between half title and the calligraphic 'frontis', 363pp, engravings in the text, lower board slight discolouration, dec endpapers, a good or better reading copy, internally tidy. One of the early works on British scientific geology. Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 013040

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Geology Geography British Isles Victorian Everyman Library

CAMM F. J.

Newnes Slide Rule Manual (Fourth Edition)

London, George Newnes. 1950, Fourth Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) unclipped DW has edge wear and some short edge tears, book boards sunned at edges, tired but unmarked copy112pp well illustrated. Very Good/Good.

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Buchzahl: 009446

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Slide Rule Technical Tool Manual Scientific Device

HARRISON WILLIAM J

A Programmers guide to COBOL

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1980, reprint. (ISBN: 0442800401) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW with edge tears and folded over portions due to this, minor chipping, name to fep, 232pp. Very Good/Good.

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Buchzahl: 012580

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Computer Programming Cobol 0442800401

CARTER L. J.

Realities of Space Travel, Selected Papers of the British Interplanetary Society

London, Putnam. 1957, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sunned spine and boards, foxed endpapers, otherwise tidy copy, 431pp + plates, includes basic technical information of rocket propulsion etc including details of Nazi missile/ rocket research, A4, V2 etc, Oppenheimer, Dornberger. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 007481

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Space Travel Astrophysics Aeronautics Interplanetary Travel Scientific Research Science Technology Transport Astronautics Space Flight Nasa Oppenheimer, Dornberger German Nazi Rockets

MCHALE JOHN

R. Buckminster Fuller, Architekten Von Heute

Ravensburg, Otto Maier Verlag. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. German language edition, book four in the series of architect monographs, ubersetzt von W. O Droescher, 116pp, 103 images. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 011323

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Architekt, Konstrukteur, Kunst, Amerika, 20. Jahrhundert

CHEW V K

Talking Machines 1877-1914, Some Aspects of the Early History Of the Gramophone

London, Science Museum HMSO. 1967, First Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) sewn sheets glued into pictorial wrappers, text block pulling away from spine but easily reglued, 81pp with 72 illustrations, mostly photographic, quality paper stock, chapters include tinfoil phonograph / graphophone / Berliner and the gramophone / Edison phonographs / Edison Bell / unusual talking machines. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 003623

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Gramophone Phonograph Talking Machine Record Player Recording Graphophone Sound Recording Early History

SAGER LAWRENCE K.

Theory of Dynamo-Electric Machinery, Instruction Paper

Chicago, American School of Correspondence. 1907, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. (500 gram rate) red cloth with black titling to cover and spine, neat pen name to fep otherwsie near fine copy, 49+3pp examination at rear, well illustrated with technical diagrams, part of a correspondence course, this covers magnetic production of electricity from dynamos etc. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 007822

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Electrical Machinery Dynamo Early Technical Manual Generator Magnetic Generation of Electricity Physics of Dyanmos

IDRIESS ION L

Prospecting for Gold from the dish to the hydraulic plant...

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1936, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall..and from the dolly to the stamper battery, with chapters on prospecting for opal, tin and other minerals- and oil. with an introduction by S F Mance, DW unclipped with light wear and some splits or minor chips to spine ends, lightly soiled backstrip, orange cloth with black titling is clean, endpapers and prelims lightly foxed, closed edges foxed, apart from foxing very tidy copy, x 293pp + adverts. Very Good/Very Good.

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Buchzahl: 003706

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Gold Mining Precious Minerals Oil Prospecting

HERSCHEL J F W EDITED DIONYSIUS LARDNER

A Treatise on Astronomy

London, Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman. 1833, reprint. Disbound, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. Full leather but lacking upper board, spine and lower board are rubbed. inscription on verso of endpaper dated 1856, prelims and engraved title page are foxed and soiled, a part of Lardner's Cabinet of Natural Philosophy. viii 422 + 3 leaves of plates. a few pages are slightly grubby, all edges gilt, text block tightly held together, a good copy for rebinding with original backstrip and title label intact. an important astronomical work. Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 000116

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Astronomy Cabinet of Natural Philosophy Antiquarian

THE BRITISH UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO. LTD.

Shoe Machinery

Leicester, The British United Shoe MacHinery Co. Ltd. First Edition. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Trade catalogue of shoe manufactiuring machinery from the 1950s. approx 269+ xipp. sized paper with photogravures, bound in buff covers with metal clips. tipped in loosely are about 40 pages of similar nature which I believe are not from this books but from another copy of a similar nature, a few pages are detaching, and some have pen notation on them. indivuial pages are dated at oot as printed and range throughout the 1950s. Interesting ephemera from the footwear manufacturing trade. Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 010981

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Manufacturing, Machinery, Cobbling, Cobbler, Footwear, British, Industry, Trade, Trade Publication, Shoes, Boots, Tools, Catalogue, Commercial Mchinery

DAY MICHAEL

Guide to fossil man, a handbook of human palaeontology

London, Cassell. 1967, Second Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW complete and unclipped but well rubbed to surface showing as white. corner tips frayed. 289pp many photographs in the text. inscription to fep. scientific work on the finds of ancient prehistoric pre-human remains. Very Good/Good.

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Buchzahl: 012594

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Fossil Missing Link Early Man Anthropology Palaeontology

FRUDE NEIL

The Robot Heritage

London, Century. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0712609180) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. very tidy, covers all aspects of artificial intelligence and robotics from the conception of the idea of mechanical men in myth, fiction and literature, to modern technological advances in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, sections include; a heritage and its history / frankenstein and company / asimov the lawmaker /archetypal artefacts / celluloid fantasies / blueprint emergent / bibliogrphy and filmography, 252pp + plates. Very Good/Very Good.

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Buchzahl: 003370

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Robot Robotics Cyborg Science Fiction Science Fact Android Artificial Intelligence Ai 0712609180

JUSTER NORTON

The Dot and the Line a Romance in Lower Mathematics

London, Thomas Nelson. 1964, New edition. Pictorial Boards, Landscape 16mo. pictorial boards rubbed to edges, DW edgewear with short splits and rubbing, approx 60pp, illustrated mathematical fable on the romance between a Dot and a Line, landscape 130 x 190mm. Good/Good.

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Buchzahl: 011976

Katalog: Science,Technology

Sonstige Stichworte: Mathematics Allegory Didactic Fiction Illustrated Norton Juster Mathematical Fable Flatland