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Tropical Storm Agnes!

By: N/A

Price: $9.00

Publisher: United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1972

Seller ID: 2005575

Binding: Large Softcover

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.
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Modern Mechanix and Inventions, April 1935, Volume XIII, Number 6

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Modern Mechanix: 1935

Seller ID: 2204987

Binding: Stapled Binding

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...
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Technical Manual Electrical Fundamentals (War Department TM 1-455)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287626

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Technical Manual Hand, Measuring, and Power Tools, May 26, 1941 (War Department TM 10-590)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287627

Binding: Soft Cover

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...
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LIFE: The Atom, a Primer for Laymen

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time: 1949

Seller ID: 2296532

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Analog: September, 1963, Vol. LXXII, No. 1

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.: 1963

Seller ID: 2296544

Binding: Magazine

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.
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Floods and High Water, 1936: Pennsylvania's Greatest Flood Disaster in Pictures

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Telegraph Press: 1936

Seller ID: 2265079

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Five Color Natural History Prints Depicting Seashells from the Turbo Genus [Conchology, Sea Shells, Snails, Mollusca, Turbinidae]

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 2066331

Binding: Single Sheet

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.
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The Nature Calendar: Wild Flowers

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1913

Seller ID: 2201036

Binding: Large Softcover

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.
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Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Castle Books: 1986

Seller ID: 2207850

ISBN: 1555211208

Binding: Hard Cover

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 ...
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Sunshine at Home: Sparkling Pages for the Child, the Youth, the Parent. A Family Portfolio of Natural History, Biography, and Bible Scenes. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Review and Harold: 1883

Seller ID: 2266774

Binding: Large Hardcover

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.
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The Hudson River

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Hudson River Day Line:

Seller ID: 2280087

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming: Spring 1989, Issue 23, Vol. 7, No. 2

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989

Seller ID: 2296542

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming: Fall 1989, Issue 25, Vol. 7, No. 4

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming: 1989

Seller ID: 2296543

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: The National Trust: 1989

Seller ID: 2300663

Binding: Stapled Binding

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...
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The Finger Lakes of Central New York (Nufolo Road Guide)

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: United States Survey Company:

Seller ID: 2301165

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Niagara in Summer and Winter

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Niagara Falls, N.Y., The Nicklis Company:

Seller ID: 2305251

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear. Unpaginated. A black-and-white photograph collection of Niagara Falls.
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The New Book of Niagara: Scenes in Summer and Winter

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y., Robert Allan Reid: 1901

Seller ID: 2305252

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Smudge on rear wrapper. 1901 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. A black-and-white photograph collection of Niagara Falls.
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The Genesee Farmer, 1851. Vol. XII. No. 1. - 12.

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: The Genesee Farmer: 1851

Seller ID: 2205712

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia, 1888: A Complete Reference Library

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Crossing PRess: 1978

Seller ID: 2275497

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 ...
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American Agriculturist, for the Farm, Garden and Household, January, 1877, Vol. XXXVI, Number I [Volume 36, No. 1]

By: N/A

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Orange Judd Company: 1877

Seller ID: 2278802

Binding: Large Hardcover

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.
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How to Feed and Manage Poultry for More Eggs and Meat

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sears, Roebuck and Co.:

Seller ID: 2296941

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Farm (My Little Carry Books)

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: DK: 2012

Seller ID: 2300004

ISBN: 0756690005

Binding: Board Book

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.
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Western New York Ledger and Scrapbook, Circa 1918 [NY]

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: 1918

Seller ID: 2300434

Binding: Large Hardcover

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.
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And So My Garden Grows (The Mother Goose Library)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1969

Seller ID: 2291335

ISBN: 0437765040

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Seein' Stars: 250 Luminous Stars, The Moon and Four Planets for the Ceiling of Your Den, Family Room, Bar or Bedroom

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Laguna Hills, CA, Walter & Astrid Reynolds: 1960

Seller ID: 2305275

Binding: Single Sheet

Condition: Very Good

Sheet stained, tear along opening of outer envelope previously mended with tape, smudges on outer envelope. 1960 Single Sheet. Seein' Stars: Luminous Stars, The Moon and Four Planets for the Celing of Your Den, Family Room, Bar or Bedroom. Have fun in the dark. Stars shine with amazing brilliance after you turn out the lights, just like being outdoors. Complete with chart and instructions for a thousand nights of enjoyment! Large envelope contains single sheet chart and four smaller envelopes containing 75 large dots, 75 small dots, 100 stars, the moon and 4 planets.
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The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

By: Abbey, Edward; Macrae, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: John Macrae / Owl Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2295288

ISBN: 0805031324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sticker on rear wrapper, ink name on front flyleaf. 1996 Trade Paperback. xii, 400. Collects the best and most inflammatory writings of the late naturalist, environmentalist, and libertarian, a former National Park ranger and the author of Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, and other works. This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the bo...
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Kingdom of the Seashell

By: Abbott, R. Tucker

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rutledge: 1988

Seller ID: 2067066

ISBN: 0517166089

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1988 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. This is the first truly comprehensive survey of seashells. It delves into all of the shells' intriguing facets - from their biology and their influence upon art, medicine, religion, archaeology and commerce to the practical aspects of shellfisheries and to the fascinating, rewarding aspects of shell collecting. Over 250 illustrations, 94 in full color.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

By: Abrahams, Marc

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton: 2003

Seller ID: 2267894

ISBN: 0525947531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. A tribute to a range of tongue-in-cheek contributions to the scientific community honors a professor who theorized that toast always falls butter-side down, a southern Baptist church that identified the number of Alabama residents going to hell, and the Australian who successfully patented the wheel.
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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poinsons. Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy. And Methods of Detecting Them. (From the Mallinckrodt Collection of Food Classics, Volume II)

By: Accum, F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Mallinckrodt: 1966

Seller ID: 2259852

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Modern reissue of very early (1820) culinary work. Good copy in good slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed. Pages foxed. 1966 Trade Paperback. xii, 269 pp. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poinsons. Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy. And Methods of Detecting Them. (From the Mallinckrodt Collection of Food Classics, Volume II)
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