No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXVIII- from July to December 1894.
London; 1894; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: twin-screw steamship "Duke of York"- engines and boilers (messrs. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, builders and engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; solid rock dredger "Majestic", for Bermuda (Messrs. Lobnitz and Co., Renfrew, engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; express passenger locomotive, Dutch railways- Cologne-Amsterdam service, with a woodengraved view of the locomotive; the "Gigantic Wheel" at Earle's Court, with ills.; six-coupled Bogie goods engine, Highland Railways (constructed by Messrs. Sharp Stewart and Co., Glasgow, from the designs of Mr. D. Jones, Inverness), with a folding, woodengraved, plate; the "General Skinner", submarine mining steamer (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth, builders and engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; the New Victoria Bridge over the Brisbane River (Mr. A.R. Brady, engineer), with folding plate with plans and fig.; the Chilian cruiser "Blanco Encalada" (Messrs. Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, builders), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; views on the Congo railway, with ills.; index; XVI, 582 pp.
Former library copy.
[26185]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXXIV- from July to December 1897.
London; 1897; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: compound goods locomotive, Northern Pacific Railway (The Schenectady Locomotive Works, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the locomotive; the Jungfrau railway, with ills.; four-coupled bogie tank engine, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (Mr. Th. Whitelegg, Plaistow, engineer), with a folding plate (ca. 80x55 cm.) with plans and fig.; Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co.'s works, Colchester, with ills.; Davis's motor car steering gear, with fig.; ten-wheeled mineral engine, Great Western Railway (Mr. William Dean, Swindon, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the engine; tank locomotive, Indian State Railways (Messrs. Neilson & Co., locomotive works, Glasgow, engineers), with a folding, transparent paper, plate with plans and fig.; Canadian ferry steamer "Chebucto" (Messrs. John Shearer and Sons, Glasgow, builders), with plans and fig.; winding engines for the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company, Limited, with a folding plate with plans and fig.; sixty years of Thames shipbuilding and marine engineering, with ills.; Hungarian paddle steamer I. Ferencz Jozef (Messrs. the Danubius Schoenichen and Hartmann Ship and Machine Construction Company, Budapest, builders and engineers), with a folding plate with plans and fig.; the Ameer of Afghanistan's gun factories (Sir T. Salter Pyne, engineer), with ills.; locomotives for the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (messrs. Kitson and Co., Leeds, engineers), with a double page plate with woodengraved ills.; ice-breaking steamer "Sleipner" (Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen, engineers), with plans and fig.; index; XVI, 662 pp.
Former library copy. Boards occasionally scratched.
[26191]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIII- from January to June 1902.
London; 1902; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: six-coupled express locomotive, Eastern Railway of France (M.L. Salomons, engineer, Eastern Works at Epernay, builders), with a double page supplement with a woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw triple-expansion engines, s.s. Arundel (William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; metre-gauge Fairlie engines, Burma Railway Company (the Vulcan Foundry Company, Newton-le-Willows, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; peat fuel works, Stangfiorden, Norway, with ills.; eight-coupled coal engine, North Eastern Railway, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; Electrolytic Alkali Works at Middlewich, with ills.; His Majesty's first class battleship "Queen" (constructed at Devonport dockyard), with a folding plate with a view of the ship; French self-propelled lorries, with ills.; compound narrow-gauge locomotive, Indian-Netherlands Railway, Java (Mr. B.A. Gratama, Java, engineer), with a view of the locomotive; index; XVI, 640 pp.
Former library copy.
[26216]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIX- from January to June 1905.
London; 1905; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the Baltic fleet, some typical vessels, with ills.; the building of the Japanese battleship "Kashima" (Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, builders), with, i.a., a double page supplement with ills.; Larkhall and Stonehouse viaducts, Caledonian Railway, with folding supplement with plans and fig.; compound express locomotive, Great Northern Railway (Mr. H.A. Ivatt, Doncaster, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Cargo Fleet Ironworks Furnaces and Coke Ovens, with double page supplement with ills.; four cylinder compound express locomotive Bavarian State Railways (Herr J.A. Maffei, Munich, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Hotchkiss six-pounder semi-automatic gun (Hotchkiss Ordnance Company, London, engineers), with ills.; Italian battleship "Regina Margherita", with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; XVI, 662 pp.
Former library copy.
[26221]Nollet, (Jean-Antoine).
Brieven over de elektrisiteit. Deel 1 (van 2). Uit het Fransch vertaald,en met eenige aantekeningen en byvoegsels, meest uit andere werken, van den zelfden schryver, vermeerderd, door den vertaaler van Nollet's Natuurkundige lessen.
Utrecht / Amsterdam; 1773; S. de Waal en G. Warnars. Contemporain halfleer. Klein 8vo. Met 3 uitslaande platen. XL, 355 p.
Ca. 5 cm van de kneep aan één zijde los. Zeer zeldzame Nederlandse vertaling!
[29070]Palm, L.C. (ed.).
Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Uitgegeven, geïllustreerd en van aantekeningen voorzien door een Commissie van Nederlandse Geleerden. Deel XII/ The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, edited, illustrated and annotated by a Committee of Dutch scientists. Part XII.
Lisse; 1989; Swets & Zeitlinger B.V.; hardcover with dust jacket; text in Dutch and English; index of names and subjects; plates in b&w; 441 pp. followed by 8 plates.
Volume XII: 1696-1699. Back dust jacket with a slight rubbed scratch. First blank endpaper with owner's entry.
[31266]red..
Vakblad voor de bouw-ambachten. 3e Jaargang, nrs. 1 (7 januari 1907) t/m 50 (16 december 1907).
Doetinchem; 1907; C. Misset; halflinnen met gemarmerde platten; ill.; tientallen uitslaande tekeningen, met o.a. bouwkundige constructies; binnenwerk met talrijke advertenties gerelateerd aan het vakgebied der bouw-ambachten; 918 p.
Zeldzaam! Enkele van de uitslaande tekeningen met scheur. Rug vernieuwd.
[26453]Rost, Johannes Leonhardus.
Beginselen der waare sterrekunde: Door welke men niet alleen op eene zeer gemakkelyke wyze komen kan tot de kennis dier noodige wtenschap; Maar tegelyk ook tot een regtmatig begrip van den waaren grondslag der Geographie, en Zeevaart.
Haarlem; 1748; Jan Bosch. Full calf binding; spine with gilt red label and five raised bands.Compartments with gilt floral ornaments. Title page printed in red and black; 26 folded plates with 115 illustrations; marbled endpapers(24), 484, (46) pp.
Very rare and well preserved first and only Dutch edition, translated from German: "Atlas Portatilis Coelestis, oder compendiöse Vorstellung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes in den Anfangs-Gründen der wahren Astronomie".
[34742]Sartory, Ch. In the service of the electron; a record of achievement in the field of electronics.
Eindhoven; ca. 1950; Philips; cloth, gilt stamped, with dust jacket; ills. in colour and b&w; includes the booklet "Philips Technisch Tijdschrift, year 16 no. 3, March 1954", pp. 61-96; 176 pp.
Dust jacket damaged and loosely inserted.
[8064]Schoedler, Fr..
Das Buch der Natur; die Lehren der Botanik, Zoologie und Physiologie, Paläontologie, Astronomie, Mineralogie, Geologie, Physik und Chemie umfassend und allen Freunden der Naturwissenschaft insbesondere den höheren Lehranstalten gewidmet. In drei Teilen. I, II:1, 2, III: 1, 2:1, 2
Braunschwieg; 1897-1915; Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn; 23rd., compl. rev. ed. by B. Schwalbe and O.W. Thomé; (folding) ill., plans, tables, a few in colour; colth; resp. XII and416, XVI and 694, XVIII, VIII and 766, XIV and 319, XIV and 2114 pp. (last 2 vols. consecutive numbering).
From vol. II:1 by H. Böttger and B. Schwalbe. Rust stained. Covers with traces of wear. Cover of vol II:2 damaged. Gothic letters.
[13042]Shopenhauer, Arthur. Über den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung der Bestätigungen, welche die Philosophie des Verfassers, seit ihrem Auftreten, durch die empirischen Wissenschaften erhalten hat. Leipzig; 1878; F.A. Brockhaus; hardbound cloth; spine with gilt lettering; small 8vo; 4th edition; adapted by Julius Frauenstädt; XXXI, 147 pp. Fine copy. [33686]
Snellen, H., Talma, S., Gillavry, Th. H. Mac, e.a. (red.).
Feestbundel van natuur- en geneeskundige onderzoekingen, ter gelegenheid van den 70-sten verjaardag van Franciscus Cornelis Donders.
Amsterdam; 1888; F. van Rossen; linnen; goud- en blindbedrukt; ingenaaid; 8vo; bijdragen door verschillende auteurs; 17 uitvouwbare platen met gelithografeerde figuren; tab. en fig. tussen de tekst; VIII, 546 p. gevolgd door de 17 uitvouwbare platen.
Lichte vochtschade in de bovenmarges van de platen en op de achterzijde van de band. Naam vorige eigenaar op titelblad.
[27143]Sommer, J.G.. Merkwaardige bijzonderheden, inhoudende de nieuwste ontdekkingen in de natuurkunde, natuurlijke historie, land- en volkenkunde, op alle gedeelten van den aardbol. Derde deel. Amsterdam; 1826; Ten Brink & de Vries; zachte kaft; 8vo; met 3 platen, naar gravures, "Gezigt van Chiwa", "Graf van een Eskimo" en "Het vervoeren van de buste van Memnon" (op de titelpagina); inhoud o.a. Chiwa en haar bewoners, de IJslanders en de landen aan den Mississippi; 316 p. Rug vernieuwd, platten hier en daar geschaafd, voorplat met groter stuk ontbrekend papier dat over het plat hoort te zitten. Band licht beduimeld, klein hapje uit de rechter benedenhoek van de voorzijde. Schut- en titelblad laten aan de onderzijde iets los. Binnenwerk met af en toe wat vochtschade, met name langs hoeken en randen. Loopt o.a. door in de hoek van de plaat van Chiwa. Laatste bladzijde, met mededeling voor de binder, met weggescheurd- of geknipt stuk, zonder verlies van tekst. [28384]
Spaeth, Eduard.
Die chemische und mikroskopische Untersuchung des Harnes. Ein Handbuch zum Gebrauche für Ärzte, Apotheker, Chemiker und Studierende. Mit 116 in den Text gedruckten Abbildungen und einer Spektraltafel.
Leipzig; 1912; Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth; halfleather with marbled boards, raised bands; 4th, revised, edition; 8vo; ills.; register; XXII, 845 pp.
Except for occasional foxing on the edges a very fine copy.
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