Search Results: Titles starting with C from Kuenzig Books

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 732 pages. Printed beige wrappers. Penned name, several stamps, a few paperclipped pages, etc. The copy of Arthur Obermayer, whose testimony as founder of Moleculon Research is contained within the report. Wraps.

Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.: CRC Press, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. [16], 303 pages. 7 x 10 inches. Publisher's green boards with embossed titles in silver and grey. A crisp clean unread copy noting lower corner tips bumped. The hardcover edition. Boards. The third portion of this three part textbook on Free Radicals and Antioxidants in Biomedicine, this volume covers Selected Models and Methods for Biological and Clinical Research. Volume I (sold separately) covered a historical introduction, Physiochemical and Physiological Aspects, and Free Radicals, Peroxides, Aging and Disease. Volume II (also sold separately) covered Antioxidants and Free Radical Scavengers : Biochemical Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.

San Paulo-SP: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2006. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 334, [1] pages. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Printed wrappers. A serial publication, here as a special issue (numbers 20 and 21) from 2006 celebrating ten years of publication. Thick, heavy publication with corner creasing. Includes extra insert. Wraps. ISSN 1413-652X.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Files and G. Masson, 1896. Cloth. Good. 214, [32-ads] pages. Publisher's light brown cloth with black printing. 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches. Advertisements in rear are heavily browned and brittle (several with old cellotape repairs and with some tearing/chipping). Otherwise textblock has only light browning. Ex-library Franklin Institute with spine label, rear pocket (removed affecting rear pastedown advertisements), and several embossed owner marks. Front pastedown endpaper advertisements. A sound reading or reference copy. Cloth. The title translates roughly to: "Time Calculation Pose in Photography". Part of the "Encyclopedie Scientifique Des Aide-Memoire" series. Dated based on advertisements in the rear up through 1896. Chapters address optical factors, chemical factors, sources of light, factors affecting the sitter, etc. Today it is simply point and shoot. Back then it was important to have a handle on your equipment, chemicals, and environment to properly photograph… Read More

Cambridge, MA; London, England and Los Angeles; San Francisco: MIT Press and Tomash Publishers, 1992. First English Language Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First English Language Edition. [8], [ix]-xvii, [1 blank], 367 pp plus 25 pages of reproduced advertisements for calculating machines. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. Number 16 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Spine slanted,minor remnants from sticker, otherwise a bright clean copy. Cloth. The first American and first English language edition. Originally published in German as "Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte" in 1925, and extremely difficult for the translators to obtain, this was one of the first works in the Charles Babbage Institute reprint series to be suggested, but one of the last issued. The editors were fortunate to be able to access the collection of instruments at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian while undertaking an already difficult technical… Read More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1898. Cloth. Good. Original publishers' cloth binding with embossed decoration to front and rear boards. Head/tail spine panel frayed and with some material lacking. Head of spine front joint material worn off showing underlying joint for top 3 icnhes. Corners bumped and worn. Base of spine bumped. Generally bright and clean internally, binding sound with good hinges and solid textblock. Library label to spine panel and several pencilled notations internally, otherwise none of the usual library markings. A good working/reference copy. Cloth.

Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. Cloth. Good. iv, 320 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt stamped titles and white stamped border and large '?' on front panel. Spine titling, etc faded. Top edges soiled. Page edges untrimmed as published. Previous owner Malcolm M. Ferguson's copy with his Ex-libris on front pastedown and signature on front flyleaf. A few penciled notes on the CONTENTS page ("ML" marked next to some stories). Several leaves with tears at the fore-edge extending just to the text (no loss) wiht several others with old cellotape repairs (yellowing). Binding starting to loosen with cracking in the gutters. Cloth. The first edition of this work was published by Cassell in 1893. This edition (the first by Neale Publishing who also later published a collection of Bierce's works) has been revised: "Of some of the tales in this new and authorized edition the author wishes to explain that their appearance in other forms since the original edition of 1893 has been… Read More

New York: IEEE Press, 1997. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. xiv, 302 pages. Yellow printed boards. Sunned on the spine panel, presentation note on the first flyleaf. A sound clean copy. Boards.

Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 2009. Later printing. Wraps. Fine. Later printing. XII, 116 pages. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 4to. Publisher's printed wrappers. INCLUDES the often missing large trifold "Flowchart for Identification Guide" A bright clean copy SIGNED by author Reilly on the title page. The fourth printing. Wraps. First published in 1986, an exceptionally useful reference work on photographic identification, and a core textbook used in Rare Book School's class "I-35 The Identification of Photographic Print Processes" The book covers the periods during which the various processes were used, how they worked, and how to identify them as well as typical deterioration and preservation issues. The only print reference work of it's kind that we are aware of. James M. Reilly is Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Director of its Image Permanence Institute (IPI). He is also the Co-Director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation (ARP) at the… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. ix, 150 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. Bright and clean internally noting a few pencilled paragraph highlights. Overall minor wear to the binding. A nice copy. Cloth. The author was a Professor of Theory and Practice of Dentistry in Tufts College Dental School. His goal was to highlight what could be done to avoid dental operations with better care.

Gottingen: Herausgegeben von der Koniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, 1874. Boards. Very Good. Seven volumes in three. 11 1/4 x 10 inches. 3/4 leather over green pebbled cloth gilt. Pages edges tinted red. Firtst volume: [4], 478 + [4], 504 + [4], 499, [1] pages. Plus one plate. Contains 1. Bd. Disquisitiones arithmeticae. 1863 -- 2. Bd. Höhere Arithmetik. 1863 -- 3. Bd. Analysis. Zweiter Abdruck. 1866 Second volume: [4], 492 + [4], 642 pages. Plus one plate. Contains 4. Bd. Wahrscheinlichkeits-Rechnung und Geometrie. Zweiter Abdruck. 1873 -- 5. Bd. Mathematische Physik. Zweiter Abdruck. 1867 Third volume: [4], 664 + [4], 290, [2] pages. Plus one plate. 6. Bd. Astronomie. 1874 -- 7. Bd. Theoria motus corporum coelestium. [Herausgegeben von Ernst Julius Schering] 1871. Boards. These additional volumes were published later, not present here: 8. Bd. Arithmetik und Algebra. Nachträge zu Band I-III. 1900 -- 9. Bd. Geodäsie. Fortsetzung von Band IV. 1903 -- 10. Bd. 1. Abt.… Read More

Austin, TX: Zeiss Historica Society, 2013. Later printing. Wraps. Near Fine. Later printing. 93, [1] pages. 7 x 10 inches. Pictorial wrappers, spine glued. A reprint of the original Zeiss catalog from 1905 (now rare) for distribution as a premium to the members of Zeiss Historica Society in 2013. Much higher production values than normally seen in these reprints and a fine reference for the shelf. Wraps. The Zeiss Historica Society was founded by Thomas Schreiner, Charles Barringer, Jr. and (as noted in some of the society's journals) Lawrence J. Gubas. Subcribed to by Zeiss enthusiasts all over the world, the "objectives of the Society are the study of, and exchange of information on the significant products and innovations of the Zeiss companies from their inception to the present." The Society was able to publish much interesting, scholarly material on many aspects of Zeiss drawing on personal member collections as well as individual research. With the concurrence of the modern Zeiss firms, Zeiss… Read More

Wyomissing, PA: The Cartoonists andd Illustrators Portfolio / Supergraphics, 1976. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Steve Ditko. Steve Ditko. First Edition. 72 pages. 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches. Stapled wrappers. A sound clean copy with the apology note laid in. Wraps. A second selection of original artwork for sale, in three categories: Syndicated Newspaper Art, Magazine and Book Illustrations, and Comic Art. The prices will make you cry with envy! Interiors in black and white but the covers are by Bernie Wrightson and Tim Conrad respectively. A useful perspective into the history of this collecting scene, far more prevalent today than it was in the 1970s.

Boston: H. F. Livermore Co, 1925. Wraps. Good. lv, 2-321, [1]. Catalogue has a preface dated Boston October 1925, and says it is iIlustrated Catalogue No K-8. 321 pages. Well used but still sound, quite thumbed. Original paper wraps. Staining and wear to the covers. Wraps. Very well illustrated, as noted primarily a parts catalogue (one page actually has a part glued to it). Only one copy in OCLC/Worldcat as of this writing (at the now defunct American Textile History Museum).

Woonsocket, RI: American Wringer Company, 1923. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 48 pages. 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches. Printed decorative wrappers. Errata tipped in page 26. Small paper label on front wrapper, rear cover creased, several small tears. Laid in are price lists and accompanying letters from Sept 1st 1925 and (with price reductions) January 10, 1927. The ephemera is creased vertically for mailing. Wraps. A scarce catalog, with Harvard showing Catalog No 10 and a few pieces of ephemera but nothing else on OCLC/Worldcat. We are aware of one other example (Cat #9) in the trade. Well illustrated, with toned decorated page borders and black and white half tone images of the company's products in the centers. Clearly targeted towards young women. "The American Wringer Company was incorporated under Rhode Island laws in 1891, a consolidation of the Empire Wringer Co., New York; the Metropolitan Mfg. Co., New York; the F. F. Adams Co., Pennsylvania; and the Bailey Wringing Machine… Read More

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, 1998. Cloth. Fine. viii,[1],504, [1]-475 pages. 2 volumes bound in one as issued. A reprint of the 1909 edition, limited to 150 copies. Publisher's grey cloth with green spine label and gold lettering. A crisp clean copy. Cloth. Many entries are annotated, with bibliographical information on the books in the collection. A standard reference, reprinted in a sound binding for easy use and reference.

Paris: Ministere de la culture, Editions de la Reunion des musees Nationaux, 1982. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 514 pages. Original publisher's tan cloth with red lettering. Black illustrated dj has some wear at the edges and head/tail of the spine panel. A nice working or reference copy of a solid scholarly work. Text in French. Cloth.

Keighley, England: Prince-Smith & Stells Ltd, [ no date ]. Wraps. Good. Various paginations. 12 x 8 inches (oblong large 8vo). Thick brown printed wrappers. Many pages (each w/two holes punched at the spine) with illustrations of various parts for their machinery, apparently sections from a larger catalog. Sections include CRv (Cone Roving Frames, 20 pages), D (English Drawing Machinery, 12 pages), D.G. (Drawing Gills, 13 pages) and Section R (Dandy Finishers, Reducers and Rovers, 14 pages). Foxing, most prevalent on first and last few pages. Wraps.

Chicago: Electric Appliance Company, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 567 pages (plus additional tipped in pages). 8vo. 7 x 10 1/4 inches. Publisher's red cloth with black embossed lettering. Minor soiling to the covers and page edges. Clearly used, but still sound. Cloth. A copiously illustrated general catalog of electrical supplies from this Chicago firm. Designed as a "living" catalog, there are multiple yellow sheets tipped in with additions to the original catalog. This is a particularly important period of time in America's industrial revolution, with new electrical services spreading across the country. This catalog includes lighting, light bulbs, small motors for the home in addition to industrial applications like telephone pole fixtures, etc. New innovations like the Packard Crookes Tubes (for producing Roentgen Rays), Bernstein series lamps, Theatre dimmers, arc light and station supplies, test instruments, fans, telegraph relays, batteries, and packard lamps with 8… Read More

Boston: Isaac R. Butts, 1844. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. [4], 56, 7, [1-blank], xiv pages. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, blind stamped design front and rear panels. Spine panel with gold lettering ''Pneumatic Experiments'' still bright and clean. 1/2 inch chip missing from head of spine panel. Base of spine panel and corners worn and with minor loss. Ex-library RPI (presented by Prof. Charles Drowne, properly deaccessioned) with institute bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and paper label at base of spine. Ink signed by Drowne on second blank flyleaf. Pencil notation (signature?) "E.S. Ritchie" and in another hand "313 Washington St" on the front flyleaf. With an additional woodcut illustration on laid paper loosely inserted at pages 48/49. Lightly penciled sequential numbers in the margins of some pages, next to some (but not all) of the experiments associated with various apparatus. Cloth. The first 56 pages are the main catalogue of Pneumatic Instruments (with 105… Read More