Prague: Published by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Trade with the co-operation of the Central Federation of Czechoslovak Industry, (1947). 7 inches tall, wraps with spiral wire binding, good with some wear and soil to covers and a few of the pages, 80 (2) pp, illustrated, includes descriptions of art.....
Berlin: Weller. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1915-20s. Tall quarto, decorated olive green boards, featuring 8 color "movable" plates of machinery (and first plate of locomotive). Recently cloth reinforcement of spine, text and plates VG. Atlas volume only, no text volume.
Washington DC: Bowman, 1861. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good, light wear and soil. 643 pp of engraved plates of inventions for that year.
(Paris): NP, 1889. Hardcover. This volume only, small quarto, gray cloth with red leather spine labels, good, with general light wear and soil to binding, contents good but tanning. 552 pp, several illustrations.
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 1884, First Edition. 190 pp., with 31 illustrations, some fold-outs. A worn copy. Front cover detached; lacks rear cover. Plate 8 is also detached, but present. Binding intact. Contents mostly unmarked. A rare book with great illustrations, here in Poor condition.....
Manchester UK: James Ainsworth, Ca. 1860. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1860, identified on spine as 'The Imperial Journal / Plates' leading us to think this is a plate volume for Ainsworth's Imperial Journal. Quarto (11.25 inches; 28.5 cm) half leather, 130 engraved plates, some double page, some quite large folding.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo, limp black cloth, 218 (16) 289 pp. Very good copy, some shelfwear.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1963, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 324pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with toning to top front board, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf.....
Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 1947, first edition, French text. 376 pp. Softcover, original wraps, 12mo. Illustrated. Very Good copy: minor wear to wraps; pages starting to age-tone, but text has remained bright and unmarked.
Pittsburgh: American Steel Company, 1907. Paperback. 1907. Red printed wraps, 8vo. 24pp. illustrated, with contemporary prices. Very good. Ownership signature on front wrap, light soil to wraps. Internally very bright and unmarked.
Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1992. First printing. Paperback. 1191 pp. Softcover. Near Fine copy: owner's ink signature at front cover, title page and upper text-block. Otherwise, a Fine copy. Clean covers; bright, unmarked text.
Boston: George W. Light & Co., 1832-33. First edition. Hardcover. Volumes I & II bound together as one. c.1832 / c.1833. Hardcover. Cloth spine, paper backed boards, paper spine label. 8vo. 188pp. / 192pp. Good. Moderate shelfwear, rubbing to edges, front and rear boards split along foredge, heavy soil /.....
London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 only, of the 1876 First Edition. 280 pp. + 45 plates in rear. Hardcover, black cloth, 4to. Copy is missing its rear board and spine. Front board present and in pretty nice condition, though it's rubbed and worn.....
New York: Appleton and Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1859. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles, chocolate endpapers. 144pp. Very Good. Rubbing and sunning to spine and boards, wear to corners and spine-ends, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light soiling.
London: Taylor and Francis, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 290pp. Fine.
Newbury, MA: Newburyport Press, 2006. Hardcover. 2006, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Near Fine condition. The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear that includes edge wear. The Dust Jacket has been freshly enclosed in an archival gloss Mylar jacket protector.
New York: VCH Publishers, 1992. Second edition. Hardcover. Two volume complete set! Second edition, 1992, hardcovers with glossy paper boards, octavos, 831pp. + 456pp., not illustrated. Books VG with mild rubbing and shelfwear to boards, bindings tight, front flyleaves clipped at top corner, texts have a very few instances of.....
New York: Plenum Press, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1968. Hardcover in dust jacket, 434 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, soiling to some pages and to the page-edges, minor soiling to the dust jacket as well.....
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870. Third edition. Hardcover. 1870. Third edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in brown cloth. 170pp. plus ads, illustrated. Good plus. Spine cloth separating from backing, loss to spine ends and corners. Internally very good, with minor finger smudging to margins, else unmarked.
NYSpringer Verlag. Fine. Hardbound, clean unmarked text, 270 pp., fine copy. Binding is Hard Cover.
New York: Reinhold, 1956. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only, 494 pp. Very Good copy, red and grey cloth backed boards. Dust jacket is Good. Cloth shows light wear, bumping; text is bright and unmarked. DJ rubbed; closed tears and wear at edges; small open tear at rear; general fading and soil;.....
Stuttgart: Arnold Bergstrasser, 1903. Hardcover. Published 1903, second volume (plates and tables) ONLY. Quarto, half leather and marbled boards, 59 double-page plates followed by 29 pp. of tables. Very good bright condition.
Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1991. First printing. Paperback. 1208 pp. Softcover. Near Fine copy: owner's ink signature at front cover, title page, upper and foredge text-blocks. Otherwise, a Fine copy. Clean covers; bright, unmarked text.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1870. Hardcover. Published 1870, vol. 3 ONLY, deep burgundy cloth octavo, 650 pp, errata, folding plates, index. Very good, light wear to spine ends, minor occasional foxing to text, top of spine has neat cloth repair. Together with a second copy of the book, lacking.....
London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1940. Second Ediiton. Hardbound. Hardbound octavo in green cloth w/gold spine lettering. Clean unmarked text, 390 pp, incldg problems, bibliography, and index. Copy is Near Fine w/slight bending and scuffing near edges and spine; strong and tight; D/J is Good +, w/noticable shelf wear.....