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. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. Very good (+). Signed by both authors. 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 copy un-numbered. 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

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

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, 1937. Frontispiece, and 14 plates, 1 folding map, in-text figures. 218pp. 8vo, orange cloth, edgeworn d.w. Cambridge: University Press, 1937. A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. 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

New York: Norton, 1998. Illustrated. 272pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1998). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Presentation copy signed by both authors. From the library of Mildred Schmertz, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. More

New York: Harper, 1896. Illus., folding street map of lower Manhattan. xii, 581pp. 8vo, decorated brown cloth, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped, inner hinge strengthened, frontispiece dampstained in margins. New York: Harper, 1896. First Edition In 1836, Charles Haswell was the first engineer appointed by the United States Navy in order to supervise the construction of the frigate, Fulton. He continued to serve in the United States Navy until 1852. From 1852 to 1907, Haswell was a civil engineer in New York City. More

1856. 4 pages on oversize vellum, 19 x 13.5 inches -- a very scarce patent issued to William M. Henderson, April 8, 1856, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, with two original highly detailed drawings, colorized on heavy wax paper identified as "IMPROVEMENTS TO SLIDE VALVE ENGINES" with a technological page devoted to the explanation on how Henderson's invention would function. Fine signature by the Secretary of the Interior, Robert McClellland, with all ribbons and seals intact. Near fine. William Henderson... More

Illus. 245pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1968). Very good. The Big Machine is a Swiss nuclear accelerator. More