illus. 8vo, cloth. London: Pall Mall, (1961). vg. More

London: Hutchinson, 1976. Black & white illustrations. 377pp. Tall 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper; cloth edge-worn, d.w. chipped & torn. London: Hutchinson, (1976). More

Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Illustrated with many b/w plates. 362pp., short thick 4to, two-toned beige cloth (small private library stamps on front/rear endpapers and at base of spine; few pages dinged at bottom edge; rear inner hinge repaired, else very good). Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. Very good. A comprehensive study of the life and career of Oliver Evans, the inventor of high-pressure steam engines. Scarce. Limited edition of 500 copies, this... More

Woodstock: Overlook, 1981. 228 color and b/w Illus. Folio, green cloth, d.w., several small tears to the top and bottom of the front of the dust wrapper. Woodstock: Overlook Press, (1981). A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More

Boston: Force Publishing Co. Illustrated with many charts and black and white images of various plumbing parts. 736 pages, very thick 8vo, red cloth with white stamping (a bit soiled but still square), A.E.S. red. Boston: Force Publishing Co., no date, circa 1920. A very good(-) copy. Catalogue No. G7. More

1964. 2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, an excerpt from "Of Leaders and Leadership," circa 1964, in small part: "For our method of electing a President is crude in the extreme. Pre-convention juggling with local political bigwigs is obscure (often, one fears, on a low plane), and it, and the travel and speechmaking, cost millions, the sources of which are sometimes questionable. Our national conventions are at best ludicrous, and at worst scandalous. They are conducted by delegates, chosen ofttimes... More

Illustrated with 62 large double-page folding plates. 103pp of text. Tall 4to, brown silk with pictorial cover, d.w. New York: Praeger, (1971). A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More

London: 1961. Plates & Maps. London, (1961). Story of the construction of a dam to harness the Zambesi, linking Southern & Northern Rhodesia. More

Paris: 1762. Engraved title vignette, and 2 other plates. 9 page extract. 8vo, modern wrappers. (Paris), 1762. Author was the noted French mathematician best known for his work on statistics. He also studied hydraulics. Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Tires des Registres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. More

Cambridge: University Press, 1936. 17 black and white plates and 14 text illustrations. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine quite rubbed, the interior is fine. Cambridge: University Press, 1936. First Edition. Good. More

Cambridge: University Press, 1936. Frontispiece, and 14 plates, 1 folding map, in-text figures. 218pp. 8vo, orange cloth (spine ends worn; faded at edges; a few penciled notes on endpapers) Cambridge: Printed for Babcock and Wilcox at The University Press, 1936. First edition. A good copy. More

New York: Frederick Converse Beach, 1906. Photogravure. Image measures 7.5 x 5". Sheet measures 7 x 10". This railroad image comes from the Encyclopedia Americana, a turn-of-the-century volume edited by Frederick Converse Beach. Beach was previously associated with Scientific American and American Photography and brought his knowledge of these fields to this broader reference project. He also invented a photolithographic process, which may be the one used to produce the image, which is dated 1903. Small captions locate the tunnels... More

Athol: L. S. Starrett, 1929. Three volumes. Illustrated with photographs, drawing, diagrams, and tables. Thin 12mo, flexible red cloth; wear to front hinge of Volume I. Athol: L. S. Starrett Company, (1929, 1931, & 1940). A very good(+) set. Volume I: for Machinists' Aprrentices; Volume II: for Machinists; Volume III: for Motor Machinists and Auto Repairmen. More