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By: N/A
Price: $9.00
Publisher: United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1972
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2005575
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. 1972 Large Softcover. Unpaginated. Oblong. Stapled binding. An account of Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972, with color and black & white photographs throughout. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Modern Mechanix: 1935
Seller ID: 2204987
Condition: Good
One inch tear to spine head, ink name, pages toned. 1935 Stapled Binding. 154 pp. CONTENTS: Building Stratosphere Air-Liners, by Allan Lockheed; Knock Down Monuments with Feathers, by Nic Sprank in Oddities of Science; American Railroads Challenge Speed Records; Racing Time for News Scoops, by Robert L. Frey; How I Judge Championship Fights, by General J.V. Clinnin; Get Cash for Puzzle Solutions - Furniture Contest Winners Get $125.00; Electrical City Built Without Chimneys, by Grace Kirkpatrick; How to Stain Your Microscope Slides, by Julian D. Corrington; Clipping Dollars from Auto Running E... View more info
![Image for Rollo's Philosophy [Air] (The Rollo Series)](/assets/images/product/2205135.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Sheldon & Company: 1868
Seller ID: 2205135
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, ink note to front endpaper, corners bumped. 1868 Small Hard Cover. 192 pp. The main design in view, in the discussions which are offered to the juvenile world, under the title of The Rollo Philosophy, relates rather to their effect upon the little reader's habits of thinking, reasoning, and observation, than to the additions they may make to his stock of knowledge. CONTENTS: Lost in the snow; Flying; Valve Making; Experiments; Pressure; Ballooning; Philosophical discussion; Tasks; Burning; Gravitation; Air in motion; Air at rest. KEYWORDS: ROLLO PHILOSOPHY AIR CHILDREN VINTAGE SCIEN... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company: 1925
Seller ID: 2260201
Condition: Very Good
Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263)--one inch tear along spine-base; March 1925 (Serial No. 265)--spine lightly bumped; April 1925 (Serial No. 266)---light smudge to rear wrapper; September 1925 (Serial No. 271)--quarter-inch tear to top edge of front wrapper, two small surface tears to front wrapper; October 1925 (Serial No. 272)--very good. 64, 74, 62, 66, 72 pp. Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263): Romance of Rings, by George F. Kunz; Anthony Van Dyck--Painter of Royalty. March 1925 (Serial No. 265): Joseph Conrad, Personal Memories; Old New... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287626
Condition: Good
Ink name on front wrapper, minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 155 pp. CONTENTS: Electrical Energy; Batteries; Solution of Circuits; Magnetism; Alternating Current; Inductance; Capacitance; Power Equipment; Electrical Measuring Instruments; Appendix I. Electrical Symbols; Appendix II. Summary of Formulas; Appendix III. Mathematical Table of Squares and Square Roots; Appendix IV. Glossary. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287627
Condition: Good
Minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 120 pp. CONTENTS: Section I. General: Employment. Section II. Use and Care of Hand Tools: Hammers; Screw Drivers; Shears, Pliers, and Nippers; Wrenches; Holding Devices; Files and Filing; Hacksaws; Punches and Punching; Chisels and Chipping; Drills and Drilling; Grinding and Sharpening Drills; Counterboring and Counterskinking; Reamers and Reaming; Threads, Taps, and Dies; Threads; Use of Taps; Tapping; Use of Dies; Cutting and Threading Pipe; Driving Rivets; Scrapers. Section III. Use and Care of Measuring Tools: Rules and Scales; Scribers; Squares; Calipe... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Time: 1949
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2296532
Condition: Very Good
A reprint from the May 16, 1949 issue of LIFE. A few light creases and light smudges. No chips, no tears. Wrappers intact. 16 pp. COVER: Uranium atom. LIFE: The Atom, a Primer for Laymen. A reprint from the May 16, 1949 issue of LIFE. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.: 1963
Seller ID: 2296544
Condition: Very Good
Light stain, light general wear. 1963 Magazine. 98 pp. COVER: Chemical industry in space. September 1963. Cover art by Nat White illustrating Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson [as by Winston P. Sanders]. ALSO: Chrono-Control by Frank A. Javor; plus stories by William J. Smith, Rick Raphael, and James R. Hall. FEATURES: Editorial by John W. Campbell; Brass Tacks (letters); Which Polaris Do You Mean? (science essay) by R. S. Richardson; The Reference Library (book reviews) and more. Interior artwork by: Leo Summers, George Schelling. Editor: John W. Campbell. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: International Textbook Company: 1907
Seller ID: 2298062
Condition: Very Good
Edges rubbed, ink stamp on title page. 1907 Hard Cover. Subjects include heat, combustion and fuels, principles of the gas engine, automobile and marine engines, stationary gas engines, gas-engine details, gas-engine lubrication and bearings. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: United States Naval Institute: 1950
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2300439
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front flyleaf, underlining and marginalia throughout. 1950 Large Hardcover. xiii, 279 (approximately) pp. Naval Auxiliary Machinery is a revision of Part III, Naval Auxiliary Machinery, Naval Machinery, published by the United States Naval Institute, 1946. ...The subject matter emphasizes the details of construction, and the operating principles, of the auxiliary machinery used aboard modern naval vessels. Coverage includes supporting systems such as the refrigeration plant, compressed air systems and lubrication oil purification systems. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Telegraph Press: 1936
Seller ID: 2265079
Condition: Very Good
Front wrapper creased, edges lightly rubbed. 1936 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. A collection of black-and-white photographs of the Pittsburgh flood of 1936. On March 17 and 18, 1936, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels peaked at 46 feet (14 m). This flood became known as The Great St. Patrick’s Day flood, and also affected other areas of the Mid-Atlantic on both sides of the Eastern Continental Divide. View more info
![Image for Five Color Natural History Prints Depicting Seashells from the Turbo Genus [Conchology, Sea Shells, Snails, Mollusca, Turbinidae]](/assets/images/product/2066331.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $95.00
Seller ID: 2066331
Condition: Very Good
Each print faintly foxed. Five matted and framed color prints. Frames 8 5/8 x 11 3/8, images 5 7/8 x 8 1/4. Matted and framed by Summit Glass and Picture Frame Company on Aug. 1 1966. These were acquired as part of a large collection of books and prints on seashell collecting and conchology, and most likely came from a 19th century volume on conchology (they are labeled plates 9, 10, 21, 24, and 33), though we were unable to identify which work this might have been. Each print features shells from the Turbinidae genus, also known as turban snails or turbos. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad / Poole Bros., Inc., Chicago:
Seller ID: 2178571
Condition: Near Fine
Edges lightly rubbed. [48 pp.] Black & white photographs throughout, half of which are enhanced with orange highlights. A pictorial guide to Yellowstone National Park, printed as a promotional item by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, with a list of their information and travel bureaus following text. Popular sites such as Old Faithful and the Morning Glory Pool are featured, and motor coach tours are advertised (several images of Lincoln touring cars). View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1913
Seller ID: 2201036
Condition: Very Good
Includes original box. Tears to box corners. 1913 Large Softcover. A mixture of scientific information on various flowers, beautiful verse, and tipped in chromolithographs. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Castle Books: 1986
Seller ID: 2207850
ISBN: 1555211208
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. Near Fine. 1986 Hard Cover. 474 pp. They can be as still as a millpond, as angry as any storm swept ocean. The Great Lakes and the major states bordering them—Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota—are the heartland of America. The land supplies the goods: grain, meat, timber, and steel. The Lakes provide passage for those goods around the world. The two—land and water—are inseparable, their destiny interlocked. Tales of the Great Lakes encompasses the stories of the men who built the Midwest—the giants of industry, builders of cities, intrepid seafarers, writers who ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Review and Harold: 1883
Seller ID: 2266774
Condition: Very Good
Edges rubbed, stain on rear wrapper. 1883 Large Hardcover. 112 pp. Sparkling Pages for the Child, the Youth, the Parent. A Family Portfolio of Natural History, Biography, and Bible Scenes. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Hudson River Day Line:
Seller ID: 2280087
Condition: Very Good
stain to bottom corner of front wrapper, pencil note on rear wrapper and on front wrapper verso. Postcards have not been written on. Unpaginated. A bound collection of postcards of the Hudson River, with perforated edges. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989
Seller ID: 2296542
Condition: Near Fine
Very minor wear. 1989 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. FEATURES: Morel Hell; Where are the Tame Morels?; Near Yosemite, One More Time?; After the Yellowstone Fires; Are They Raking Our Truffles to Death?; Train Your Own Tuber Hound; Mushrooming Around North America; Save Those Mushrooms (by Drying); Poisoning in Oregon; No More Melzer's?; Rot-Nots Strikes Again; The Truth about Midwest Mushrooms; A Strange Encounter. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989
Seller ID: 2296543
Condition: Very Good
Light stain, two creases to rear wrapper. 1989 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. FEATURES: The Latest Morel News: Another Patent, Some High Finance, and More Kits; What if Morels Were Easy?; Truffle Essence is Criticized; The Picture Quiz (Especially for Lumpers); Roundup of 1989 Mushrooming--the Survey of North America; Some Gilled Woorotters Have Pale Spores; Chuch Barrows Dies; Spreading the Word at Puyallup. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $4.00
Publisher: The National Trust: 1989
Seller ID: 2300663
Condition: Near Fine
Three color postcards laid in. A very nice copy. 1989 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. A brief history and visitors' guidebook to the famed site. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardener... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: United States Survey Company:
Seller ID: 2301165
Condition: Near Fine
No publisher date. Top page ridge faintly foxed, top corner very lightly creased. The Lakes--topography, points of interest and every road with improved highways indicated. Includes large fold-out map. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $95.00
Publisher: The Genesee Farmer: 1851
Seller ID: 2205712
Condition: Good
Front and end matter, fore-edge margin, and a few text pages foxed. 1851 Soft Cover. [9]-292, [2] pp. Shoestring-bound sammelband of twelve issues of The Genesee Farmer, reinforced with wood. An important mid-19th century agricultural periodical published in Rochester, New York. Collected articles on farming, livestock, and other rural concerns, with engraved illustrations throughout. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Crossing PRess: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2275497
Condition: Good
1978 reissue of 1888 original. Spine lightly creased, wrappers lightly rubbed. x, 644 pp. 1978 reissue of 1888 original. Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia. A Complete Ready Reference Library for Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit Growers, Stockmen and Housekeepers, Containing a Large Fund of Useful Information, Facts, Hints and Suggestions, in the Various Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Live Stock Raising, Poultry Keeping, Bee Keeping, Dairy Farming, Fertilizers, Rural Architecture, Farm Implements, Household Management, Domestic Affairs, Cookery, Ladies' Fancy Work, Floriculture, Medical ... View more info
![Image for American Agriculturist, for the Farm, Garden and Household, January, 1877, Vol. XXXVI, Number I [Volume 36, No. 1]](/assets/images/product/2278802.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Orange Judd Company: 1877
Seller ID: 2278802
Condition: Very Good
Board edges rubbed, general wear. 1877 Large Hardcover. 488 pp. American Agriculturist, for the Farm, Garden and Household, January, 1877, Vol. XXXVI, Number I. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sears, Roebuck and Co.:
Seller ID: 2296941
Condition: Very Good
Some pages dog-eared, general light wear. 31 pp. Topics include: Low Cost Production of Eggs and Meat; Starting Chicks; Feeding Baby Chicks; Chick Management Schedule; Growing Pullets; Feeding Pullets on Range; The Laying Flock; Feeding the Laying Flock; Culling Guide; Handling Eggs for Market; Producing Poultry Meat; Some Common Troubles of Poultry. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $3.00 $2.40
Publisher: DK: 2012
Seller ID: 2300004
ISBN: 0756690005
Condition: Very Good
Edges lightly rubbed. 2012 Board Book. Fun first books to pick up and carry around, for toddlers on the go! Featuring easy-grip, die-cut handles, these all-new board books are just the right size for toddlers' hands. Innovative carry handle promotes book-handling skills and manual dexterity; Informative rhyming text builds language and encourages reading readiness; Educational subjects enhance early learning. View more info
![Image for Western New York Ledger and Scrapbook, Circa 1918 [NY]](/assets/images/product/2300434.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: 1918
Seller ID: 2300434
Condition: Very Good
No publisher date (circa 1918). Boards lightly soiled, ghosting to some pages. Western New York ledger and scrapbook. Includes tabbed double entry ledger, used as a diary and includes entries from March 30th, 1918 through December 31st, 1918. Entries note chores and tasks complete around the house and farm, as well as other day to day activities and weather. Also includes family records, newspaper clippings and agricultural articles. Some pages blank. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1969
Seller ID: 2291335
ISBN: 0437765040
Condition: Very Good
No publisher date (circa 1969). No jacket. Board corners lightly rubbed, ink gift note on front flyleaf verso. Unpaginated. From silver bells and cockle shells to roof-top flower pots, every kind of garden grows in these pictures of 19th-Century Italy.--Rear board. Illustrations by Peter Spier. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Garden Club of America: 1941
Seller ID: 2300658
Condition: Very Good
Includes original pencil issued upon publication. Boards lightly toned. 1941 Hard Cover. 48 pp. Includes original pencil issued upon publication. A history of the Garden Club of America's annual meeting from May 20-22, 1941. View more info
By: A Practical Chemist, and Experienced Liquor Dealer.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Published for the Author: 1860
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266630
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Rebound in navy blue buckram, with gilt titles and rules on spine. Original green endpapers retained, and somewhat faded along edges. 1860 Hard Cover. xii, 208, [8] pp. An pre-American Civil War guide to the commercial production of wine and spirits, with scientific explanations related to the fermentation and distillation processes, and recipes for a variety of styles of wine, whiskey, brandy, gin, etc. View more info
