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There are 87 books in this catalogue.
Leonardo's Machines. Secrets and Inventions in the Da Vinci Codices.
Laurenza, Domenico; edited by Taddei, Mario & Zanon, Edoardo
Book Number: 66991
ISBN: 8809043634
Publisher: David & Charles, UK. 2007
4to. softcover. 239pp. colour illus. Very good+.
Price: $45.00


Questions and Answers on the Marine Diesel Engine 6th Edition
Christensen, Stanley G.
Book Number: 66795
ISBN: 
Publisher: Charels Griffin & Company 1965
8vo. hardcover in shelf worn d/w. 426pp. Good, stain on edge of first and last few pages. / Fair foxed & stained d/w. Contents includes Heat and Engineering Science, Internal Combustion Engines, Fuels, Lubricants - Treatment and Storage, Combustion and fuel Injection Systems, Scavenge, Exhaust and Pressure Charging Systems, Construction Materials, Welding and Materials Testing, Bedplated, Frames, Guides, Scavenge Trunks and Cylinder Jackets, Cylinder Liners, Cylinder Heads and Valves, Pistons, Piston Rods, Piston Skirts and Piston Rings, Crankshafts, Camshafts, Connecting Rods, Crossheads and Slippers, Starting and Reversing, Reduction Gearing, Clutches and Couplings, Line Shafting, Screw Shafts, Propellers, Thrust Bearings, Engine and Shafting Alignment, Heat Exchangers, Cooling Systems, Lubricating Systems, Air Compressors and Air Storage Tanks, Balancing Vibration, Instrumentation and Controls, Safety, Index.
Price: $15.00


Sothern's Marine Diesel Oil Engines - A Manual of marine Oil Engine Practice TENTH Edition. Specially compiled to satisfy the Standard of the Board of Trade Examinations
Bowden, J. K.
Book Number: 60461
ISBN: 
Publisher: J. Munro and Company
Fat 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Index. Illustrated with diagrams. Contents includes General Definitions and explanations, Various Types of Marine Diesel Oil Engines, Internal Combustion, Indicator diagrams, Various Details, Data from Actual Practice, General Notes on Operation and Fire Precautions, Air Compressors, Practical operation of Machinery, Fuel Oils, Combustion and Lubricating Oils, Data, Metric Syustem Calculations and Logarithms.
Price: $25.00


Lamb's Questions and Answers on the Marine Diesel Engine 7th Edition Extensively Revised
Christensen, Stanley G.
Book Number: 60449
ISBN: 0852642482
Publisher: Charels Griffin & Company 1978
8vo. hardcover in shelf worn d/w. 466pp. Very good. Contents includes Heat and Engineering Science, Internal Combustion Engines, Fuels, Lubricants - Treatment and Storage, Combustion and fuel Injection Systems, Scavenge, Exhaust and Pressure Charging Systems, Construction Materials, Welding and Materials Testing, Bedplated, Frames, Guides, Scavenge Trunks and Cylinder Jackets, Cylinder Liners, Cylinder Heads and Valves, Pistons, Piston Rods, Piston Skirts and Piston Rings, Crankshafts, Camshafts, Connecting Rods, Crossheads and Slippers, Starting and Reversing, Reduction Gearing, Clutches and Couplings, Line Shafting, Screw Shafts, Propellers, Thrust Bearings, Engine and Shafting Alignment, Heat Exchangers, Cooling Systems, Lubricating Systems, Air Compressors and Air Storage Tanks, Balancing Vibration, Instrumentation and Controls, Safety, Index.
Price: $35.00


A Petroleum Handbook
Members of Staff of the Royal Dutch - Shell Group. (compiled by)
Book Number: 66633
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Asiatic Petroleum Company 1938.
8vo. hardcover. 473pp. indexb/w illus. Very good, bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $25.00


Wireless for Beginners
Boltz, C. L.
Book Number: 65895
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: George G Harrap & Co, 1958. 4th edition.
8vo. Red cloth hard cover, 272pp. index. b/w frontis. very good, owner's details on fep. / Fair d/w with some small tears & chips.
Price: $25.00


Manual of Leveling Computation and Adjustment (Special Publication No. 240)
Rappleye, Howard S.
Book Number: 65128
ISBN: 
Publisher: US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1948.
8vo. softcover. Good, cover faded, crners bumped.
Price: $18.00


The Laser Guidebook. Second Edition
Hecht, Jeff
Book Number: 64955
ISBN: 0830642749
Publisher: Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1992.
8vo. softcover. 498pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good.
Price: $20.00


Methane Digesters for Fuel Gas and Fertilizer with complete instructions for two working models
Fry, L. John; Merrill, Richard
Book Number: 64942
ISBN: 
Publisher: L. John Fry, Santa Barbara, 1973.
4to. stapled wraps. 47pp. b/w illus. Good, top corner bumped, spine faded, a few marks on cover.
Price: $30.00


Simplified Wind Power Systems for Experimenters
Park, Jack
Book Number: 64943
ISBN: 
Publisher: Helion, USA, 1975. 2nd edition.
4to. softcover. 80pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $25.00


The Cat's Whisker: 50 Years Of Wireless Design
Hill, Jonathon
Book Number: 64348
ISBN: 0905368460
Publisher: Oresko Books, London 1978.
4to. hardcover. 95pp. b/w illus. Near Fine. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00


Steam Traction-Engines: Memories of the Men and the Machines
Bonnett, Harold
Book Number: 64058
ISBN: 085949067X
Publisher: Robert Tyndall, UK 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 48pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


The Complete Guide to Blacksmithing: Horseshoeing, Carriage and Wagon Building and Painting
Lungwitz. Professor A. & Adams, Charles F.
Book Number: 63872
ISBN: 051734548X
Publisher: Bonanza Books, New York, 1981.
8vo. hardcover. 222pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Picturesque Panama. The Panama Railroad and The Panama Canal.
Heald, Jean Sadler
Book Number: 62795
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chicago Curt Tech & Co 1928.
8vo, illustrated cloth hardcover. 126pp. b/w illus. folding map loosely inserted. Very good, wear to spine ends.
Price: $25.00


The Buttermaker's Manual Volumes I & II
McDowall,Frederick Henry
Book Number: 62699
ISBN: 
Publisher: New Zealand University Press., Wellington., 1953.
8vo. cloth hardcovers. 1590pp. + indexes. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $75.00


Metal Turning Made Easy
no author stated
Book Number: 58788
ISBN: 
Publisher: Cassell 1944 The Amateur Mechanic & Work Handbooks
8vo. Softcover. 152pp. Very good. Illustrated with diagrams throughout.
Price: $15.00


Care and Repair of Gas and Oil Engines. Machinery's Reference Book no. 129.
Machinery
Book Number: 57112
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Industrial Press, New York 1914.
8vo. stapled softcover. 48pp. Very good.
Price: $35.00


Practical Carriage Building. Volume II
Richardson, M. T. (compiled by)
Book Number: 42050
ISBN: 
Publisher: Richardson 1892. First edition
8vo. hardcover. 280pp. index, b/w illus. good, foxing throughout, first few pages creased on bottom corner, cover faded with some wear to corners.
Price: $150.00


SIGNALLING - An Elementary Reference Manual Covering the Morse Code and its Application to Aural and Visual Signalling, Operating Procedure for Visual, Telegraphic and Telephonic Communication and Fundamental Electrical Principles.

Book Number: 60900
ISBN: 
Publisher: Mingay Publishing Company 1941
12mo, brown cloth wraps. 63pp. Very good. po name and station on title page. Contents includes, Signalling by the Morse Code, Visual Signals, Procedure, Elementary Electricity, The Telephone, Cables and Cable Jointing, Line Telephony Procedure, Telephone Exchange Operation.
Price: $30.00


The Goonhilly Project. Communication-satellite ground station.
Taylor, F. J. D.
Book Number: 24179
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Institution of Electrical Engineers. 1964
8vo. hardcover. 152pp. b/w illus. very good, light foxing to endpapers & prelims. / good chipped d/w. Scarce
Price: $95.00


The Design and Construction of Masonry Dams Giving the Method Employed in Determining the Profile of the Quaker Bridge Dam
Wegmann, Edward
Book Number: 60951
ISBN: 
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1889.
4to. blue dec, cloth hardcover. 112pp. + 62 plates (some folding) + ads. Good solid copy with some wear to cover corners, Ex Water Supply Department copy with some stamps & some mathematical formulas written on a few pages.
Price: $110.00


Data and Circuits of Receiver and Amplifier Valves 1st supplement. (Electronic Valves Book III)
Ducloux, C. (trans.)
Book Number: 45854
ISBN: 
Publisher: Philips Tech Library, 1949.
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 213pp. b/w illus. Very good, some foxing. Some fading to cover edge. Scarce.
Price: $65.00


Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Electrical Engineering II. Radio Communication Part 1 - History and Development
O'Dea, W. T.
Book Number: 44703
ISBN: 
Publisher: His Majesty's Stationary Office London 1934
8vo. Wrappers. Front wrap loose, Copy very good, very lightly foxed. Index. 58 Figures including diagrams and Photographic Illustrations of equipment from 1878 to 1943 including clockwork transmitter and detector, Hertz Apparatus, Oscillators and seonators, Lodge Coherers, Magnetic Detectors, Pedersen tikker, Fleming diode valves, Marconi, Lodge-Muirhead, Poldhu, diagram of different aerial configurations, Telefunken, Duddell, Poulsen, Jigger, Bellini-Tosi, Catkin, Rigby, Ongar, Burndept, Baird Television. Contents includes Electromagnetic Waves, Detectors, Early Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, The Development of Wireless Telegraphy, The Thermoinic Valve, Further Developments in Transmission, Wireless Telephony Recievers, Television and Picture Telegraphy, Miscellaneous Developments ( Microphones, Loudspeakers, Measurement of Wavelength), References.
Price: $75.00


Steering Gear and Deck Machinery, reprinted from the Modern Marine Engineer's
Messaros, Frank C.
Book Number: 20386
ISBN: 
Publisher: Philadelphia . Cornell Maritime Press. 1943.
small 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. + one fold-out tech. drawing. very good, cover lightly chipped on edges, light foxing to endpapers, light soiling to cover.
Price: $55.00


Radio Design: Official Organ of the Radio International Guild. Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1929
various
Book Number: 52518
ISBN: 
Publisher: Radio International Guild 1929
Large 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. Good-, cover rubbed and chipped on corners.
Price: $15.00


Methane CH4 The Replaceable Energy
Spargo, Raymond F.
Book Number: 47435
ISBN: 0959572007
Publisher: Australian Methane Gas Research 1979
Large 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. Very good, front cover creased. Scarce.
Price: $35.00


Wonderful Models. The Romance of the World in Miniature and a Complete Encyclpaedia of Modelcraft. Vol 1 & 2
Marshall, Percival and Edward W. Hobbs; (editors)
Book Number: 33434
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Percival Marshall & Co. 1928.
Large 8vo red cloth hardcovers. 1152pp. b/w illus, plans, some fold-out. very good, foxing to endpapers. A very nice set.
Price: $125.00


Transistor Audio Amplifiers
Shea, Richard F.
Book Number: 24301
ISBN: 
Publisher: New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1955
8vo. hardcover. 219pp. index, b/w illus. very good, owner's name on fep. / good- chipped d/w.
Price: $28.00


Transmission Circuits for Telephonic Communication, Methods of Analysis and Design
Johnson, K.S.
Book Number: 24292
ISBN: 
Publisher: New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, LTD. 1929
8vo. hardcover. 334pp. index, b/w illus. good, owner's details inside front cover. cover edges slightly soiled. / no d/w.'
Price: $25.00


Land Engineering and Surveying for Students and Practical Use
Baker. T. and Leston, G. L.
Book Number: 24092
ISBN: 
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Son, London, 1925 24th edition. Lockwood's Technical Manuals
small green stamped cloth 8vo.Good copy with cloth faded lightly and marked, and worn at spine fold. Ads on fep. ffl is missing. Illustrated throughout with Illustrations and Lithographic plates, diagrams, calculations, tables, and fold out plans. Contents include Practical Geometry, Mensuration, Haydraulic Memoranda, Values of French Measures, General Principles of Surveying, Chain Surveying, Instruments for Angular Measurement, Logarithms, Trigonometry as applied in Surveying, Surveying with the Theodolite, Levelling, Railway Surveying, Sundry Cases arising in the laying out and division of land, Plotting plans and sections, Calculation of Areas and Cubical contents, misc. Caluculations and Examples, publications of the ordanance survey, Examination papers, List of Plates.
Price: $15.00



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