Babylon Electrified by A. Bleunard - 1889: The History of an Expedition Undertaken to Restore Ancient Babylon By the Power of Electricity and How it Resulted

Energy Publications Division of HBJ, Dallas, TX, 1982. Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Technical documents on Drilling Fluids, Drilling Hydraulics, Fraction Gradients, Well Control, and Casing Design, Cementing and Completion. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 167 pp. Pages are tight and clean. No significant flaws. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 106896. . Additional shipping charges may apply.

W. R. Vansant, 1904. Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. First Edition. 649 pp. Text white with light sunning along top edge. Clean, unmarked with green design endpapers. Prior owner attribution in pencil on front free endpaper. Illustrated with b/w and full color illustrations and diagrams. "Vivilore: the pathway to mental and physical perfection; the twentieth century book for every woman; a brave and scholarly treatment of sex-life, parenthood, child training, beauty laws and vital interests of women and of men; also a comprehensive treatment of disease and its remedies, including materia medcia. A plea for self-knowledge, self-mastery, and self-development. Embellished with 140 illustrations in rich colors and exquisite half-tones, with numerous scientific pictu res which answer essential questions. Complete index and glossary."

Institute of Police Technology Management, 2006. Hardcover. Good. 11x9x1. Neil F. Robar and George L. Ruotolo's massive technical guide to advance traffic crash analysis. Professional level instruction. Chapters include Mathematics Review, Vehicle Damage Analysis, Time and Distance, Airborne Equations, Conservation of Linear Momentum and Vector Analysis, Photograph, Advances Measuring and Diagramming and Trial Preparation and Courtroom Testimony. Also includes Glossary of Terms, References, Measurements, Equivalents, Temperature, Measurement Abbreviations and Index. 495 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Tight copy with small tears to front and back panels and ownership names printed to top and fore edges of text block. Internals clean and unmarked. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

The Writer's Guild, 1928. Hardcover. Good. Noted American poet and author Willis Vernon-Cole's tale of crime, mystery and desire in early-century Manhattan, with episodes occurring primarily on Park Avenue. Collectible first and only printing. Cole's last novel and only novel with a contemporary setting. Published by the Writer's Guild of New York, of which he served as president. Inscribed and signed by Vernon-Cole on title page recto as a poem written specifically for Countess de Lagarde thus: "Madame [illegible] de Lagarde | Whose lips are fragrant roses; | Whose eyes transform t[o] lakes | Reflecting in a[n] eternal charm, | The smile which from them breaks, | Whose soul is like a garden | Where perfumed flowers blow | Rich promises of paradise | And streams of pleasure flow. | The palate[sp] of the artist fails; | Poeticizing bards | Are mute to sing your loveliness, | Fair Countess de Lagarde. | Your friends | The Vernon Coles. | "La [illegible] | 2 Decembre… Read More

Please note that the overall condition is acceptable, however some pages have been removed over time and details of the page count are included in the description.
928 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout. Some typical content includes:
Motor memoranda
Character and colour of the Chelsea pageant
Triumph of the Lusitania
Naval disaster off the isle of Wight
Lady Disdain
World's greatest meteorite - A letter from Commander Peary
Refer to the index pages in the gallery image for a complete listing of the content. 
Warnambool Mechanics Institute stamped on numerous pages.

Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. 

Pages Missing:
223-226
465-480 out of place
894-900

Tears:
321 supplement
737, 759,761

Incorrect No. 867

New York: New York Book Company, 1870. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 650pp. 42 plates of engravings. illus. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Hinges broken, front end paper missing, old masking tape connecting front paste down and frontispiece verso, mostly mild/ some moderate foxing to interior, light wear to board edges and spine ends, spine mildly cocked. This is an apparent reissue with a twist of original title by the publisher of the 1869 Women of New York or the Under-world of a Great City by Ellington - a pseudonym according to OCLC, possibly for James Dabney McCabe in the opinion of one scholar (citation on request). The contents: Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Married Women, Wicked Women, Female Artistes, Life in a Female Seminary, Other Women, Female institutions. The last paragraph of the preface sums up the book's general premise: " There are doubtless many true and noble women among the fashion and… Read More

Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 1931 University of Wyoming doctoral thesis submitted by Joseph Conrad Twinem pertaining to the genesis of the geological development of the lithosphere of southeastern Wyoming. Includes discussions of dozens of formations and numerous skillfully executed watercolors of cross-sections of formations, etc. Of special interest are four large watercolors, two of them 3-panel fold outs, of Wyoming landscapes, and one of the Rock Creek oil fields. Also includes 36 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" original, unique photos inserted in corner mounts - views of Wyoming camp facilities, canyons, mountains, striking geological features, Independence Rock, gold mining operations, the Pathfinder Dam, Parco, Wyoming (street view), oil distillers, a Snow Range sericite mine and much more. No exaggeration; this thesis is a work of art and unique. Notably, Twinem was the former Maine State Geologist, also an accomplished petroleum engineer and geologist. Bound in burgundy cloth… Read More

Evesham: Agg, Printer, 1820 Book. Good. Hardcover. 122 pages. Undated, circa 1820? In the original paper covered boards, but with repacement cloth spine and modern end papers. Pages 93-96 have a section torn out of the fore edge and this just touches some of the printed side notes in places..

Bath: Wilkinson Bros, 1890 Book. Good. Hardcover. viii, 127, [1] pages. Privately printed. Presentation inscription to the front free end paper - To Dr and Mrs Hensley with the author's kind regards. Free end papers are rather browned. In the original cloth covered boards, but these are worn and darkened. The polished surface has gone from the whole of the front board and the edges of the rear. Pages are all edges gilt. Some splitting to the paper over the inner hinges..

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… Read More