Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. C.- from July to December, 1915.
London; 1915; 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 St. Lawrence wire-rope works, Newcastle-on-Tyne (M.J. Mitchell, Moncrieff, engineers, Newcastle-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; military rolling-stock on the South African railways, with ills.; locomotive (2-8-2) type fitted with the Austin trailing-truck (constructed by the Lima locomotive corporation, Lima, Ohio), with double page enclosure with ills.; the Highland and Agricultural Society's Trials, i.a. motor-plough and petrol-tractors, with ills.; wharf construction at Balboa, on the Panama Canal, with ills.; tender of goods locomotive for the Hull and Barnsley railway (constructed from the designs of Mr. M. Stirling & by Messrs. Kitson and Co., Leeds), with plans and fig.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XX, 684 pp.
Former library copy. Leaves somewhat dampstained, enclosures uncut. Binding a trifle worn.
[26025]Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CI- from January to June, 1916. London; 1916; 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. : Spanish torpedo-boat destroyers of the "Bustamante" class (constructed by the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, Cartagena), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; general arrangement of the geared-turbine propelling machinery of the federal liner "Northumberland" (constructed by the Wallsend slipway and engineering company, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; cranes and gantries at the works of the Rotterdam Dockyard Company (constructed by the Haarlemsche Machinefabriek and Rotterdamsche Machinefabriek Braat, Rotterdam), with double page enclosure with ills., plans and fig.; the Paris motor-buses in war service , the Schneider chassis and engine, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; quadruple-srew liner "Lafayette" of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (constructed by the Société Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Port de Bouc), with ills.; the Pivot Pier of Glebe Island Bridge, Port Jackson, New South Wales, with double page enclosure with ills.; the Brazilian diesel-engine propelled submarine dépôt ship "Ceara", with ills.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XIX, 636 pp. Former library copy. [26027]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CV- from January to June, 1918. London; 1918; 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 Sciotoville bridge over the Ohio river (Mr. Gustav Lindenthal, New York), with ills.; the Marshall chair for crippled workers; 180- H.P. Mercedes engine and Albatross scout biplane, with ills.; the world's largest shipyard at Hog Island on the Delaware River, with ills.; the Derwent dam, the Derwent Valley water-works (Mr. Edward Sandeman, London), with ills.; coal-handling plant at the Saltley gas works, Birmingham (constructed by Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, London), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the national physical laboratory, Teddington, with ills.; tractors on bad roads or land, with ills.; the Jurassic ironstones of the United Kingdom, with ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XX, 740 pp. Former library copy. [26106]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. XCVIII- from July to December, 1914. London; 1914; 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. : four-cylinder compound (2-8-2 type) locomotive for the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean railway at the Lyons exhibition (constructed by the Société Française de Constructions Mécaniques, Denain), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the twin-screw geared-turbine-driven steamers "Ciudad de Buenos Aires" and "Ciudad de Monte Video", with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; ice-breaking railway-train ferry for Canada (constructed by Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., Birkenhead), with ills.; the Manhattan Bridge over the East River at New York, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the calcium carbide factory at Odda, Norway, with ills.; the Canadian customs cruiser "Margaret" (constructed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Southampton), with ills. and double page enclosure with plans and fig.; compound articulated 2-8-8-8-2 type locomotive for the Erie railroad (constructed by the Baldwin locomotive works, Philadelphia), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XLVI, 774 pp. Former library copy. [26023]
Marchand, Pierre (red.).
Bossen en bomen. Struin door de bossen en ontdek het geheim van de bomen. Sesam Junior. Kaleidoscoop van de Natuur/ Avonturen op zee. Scheep je in en vaar mee met schepen en piraten. Sesam Junior. Kaleidoscoop van de Wetenschap. 2 boeken.
Tielt/ Baarn; 1995-1996; Lannoo/ Bosch & Keuning; harde kaft; 20x22 cm.; ill. in kleur; pop-up boek, met bladzijden die je kunt uitvouwen, stickers en klepjes; 49 & 43 p.
Uitstekende staat.
[38301]Mann, L'Abbé.
Encyclopédie des enfans, ou abrégé de toutes les sciences, refondu, beaucoup augmenté et corrigé dans toutes ses parties, afin de le rendre propre à l'usage des Écoles des Pays Catholiques.
Bruxelles; 1807; B. Le Francq; leather with gilt lettered spine; 13th, revised, edition; woodengravings; 11x17 cm.; VIII, 160 pp.
Engraving and some words page 151 damaged, errasing with ball-point. Outer margins occasionally vaguely waterstained. Cover with slight wear, mainly along extremities. Name, in ink, on first endpaper.
[23425]Manen, Charlotte A. van Nederlandsche, De, Overzee Trustmaatschappij; middelpunt van het verkeer van onzydig Nederland met het buitenland tydens den Wereldoorlog 1914-1919. Pt. I/II, III, IV, V/VI, VII, VIII. 's-Gravenhage; 1935; Martinus Nijhoff; maps, ill., tables, schedules, graphics; cloth, gilt stamped; 4o. In separate files proofsheets and designs of the maps, made by the former owner of the books (with ex libris!), W. Plasschaert, and some a letter in manuscript and type-writing from the author to Mr. Plasschaert, as well as a review in the 'Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant'. [8615]
Mandere, Henri van der.
Mannen en vrouwen van beteekenis/ Vorst Albert I van Monaco (Drie delen in één band).
Haarlem; 1901-1905; H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon; cloth without dust jacket; ills. in b&w, a single one in colour; two coloured maps (complete); comprising three parts, "Vorst Albert I van Monaco", "La carrière d'un navigateur" and "Musée océanographique & aquarium de Monaco, guide illustré"; 40, VIII, 406 and 63 pp.
Endpaper with bookplate and owner's entry. Joint of spine with small tear.
[22217]Looman, T.M. Het leven van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter. Amsterdam; 1860; H. Höveker; litho's; in linnen met goudstempel; 470 p. Band met slijtageplekken; litho's roestvlekkig. [4741]
Lennep, J. van De twee admiralen. Kornelia Vossius. Een schaking in de 17e eeuw. Rotterdam; 1859; M. Wijt & Zonen; Romantische Werken no. XIV; 2 ill. van J.C. d'A. Gerkens en D.J. Sluyter; in linnen, goudgestempeld; 321 p. De eerste novelle over De Ruyter. Een katern enigszins los in de band. Enkele vlekjes in de marges van de eerste 15 blz. [40]
L'hermite, Jaques.
J van de Voyagie om den gantschen Aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder 't beleydt van den Admirael Jaques 'LHeremite, ende vice-admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham, inde jaren 1623, 1624, 1625 en 1626. Noch is hier by gevoegt een beschrijvinge vande regeeringe van Peru, door Pedro de Madriga gekozen tot Lima. Als mede een verhael van Pedro Fernandez de Quir, aengaende de ontdeckinge van 't onbekent Australia, sijn grooten rijckdom ende vruchtbaerheyt.
Amstelredam; 1648; Joost Hartgertsz. Later leather binding; title page with woodcut with two ships; (2), 76 pp. Jaques l'Heremite traveled around the world with his fleet of 11 ships and 1600 men on board, with Peru as his detination. The goal was to conquer a Spanish treasure fleet, Peru, including the rich silver mines of Potosi (now Bolivia) and Portoviejo in ecuador. L'Hermite had to settle for a group of seven uninhabited islands, Hermite Islands, named after him.
A very rare edition. A rather poor copy with spots in the margins of most of the pages. One plate missing.
[35270]Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut. Uitkomsten van wetenschap en ervaring aangaande winden en zeestroomingen in sommige gedeelten van den oceaan (Chinesche zee en westelijk gedeelte van den noorder Stillen Oceaan). Utrecht; 1863; P.W. van de Weijer; halflinnen; tabellen, waaronder windtabel, enkele uitslaand; inhoud o.a. bevattend barometer-waarnemingen en temperatuur der oppervlakte van de zee, beschrijving der haven van Iloïlo door Eduard Gadd, zeilaanwijzing van Hongkong naar Shanghae, eilanden en gevaren in de Chinesche Zee, etc.; (6) 72 p. Band verkleurd, voorplat vlekkerig, twee etiketjes en rechter benedenhoek gedeukt. Rug beschadigd en pagina's hier en daar met kleine scheurtjes en iets gerafeld. Stempeltje op titelblad. [22630]
Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut. Uitkomsten van wetenschap en ervaring aangaande winden en zeestroomingen in sommige gedeelten van den oceaan. Utrecht; 1859; Kemink en Zoon; halflinnen; tabellen en enkele uitvouwbare kaarten, oa. schetskaart der weersgesteldheid van den Indischen Oceaan, temperatuurtabel der zee nabij de Kaap de Goede Hoop en diverse windkaartjes; XIII, 184 p. + kaarten Voor- en achterplat met vrij grote gescheurde plek aan de onderzijde. Linker bovenhoek voorplat met etiketje, eerste schutblad en titelblad met vouw. [22633]
Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut. Uitkomsten van wetenschap en ervaring aangaande winden en zeestroomingen in sommige gedeelten van den oceaan. Utrecht; 1857; L.E. Bosch en Zoon; halflinnen; tabellen en enkele uitvouwbare kaarten, o.a. een kaart bevattende de opgaven van verschillende ontmoetingen van ijsbergen in de zuidelijke oceaan, route-kaart van het zuiderhalfrond, temperatuurkaart van een gedeelte van de zuidelijke oceaan voor de maand juli, e.a.; (5) 74 p. Band met slijtagesporen, hier en daar iets gescheurd aan de randen en een etiketje op het voorplat. Rug licht beschadigd aan boven- en onderzijde. Platten aan binnenkant roestvlekkig en voorplat iets los aan het binnenste gedeelte van de marge. Laatste schutblad laat enigszins los. [22628]