Search Results: Authors starting with V from Kuenzig Books

Washington DC: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 24 pages. 8vo. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Self wrappers (title page is page [1]). Previously bound, with stitch marks and glue remnants at the spine edge. Minor marginal loss to the base of the spine (one inch by 1/8 inch). Some overall browning to the paper. Staining to last page. Wraps. Published in 1845 by Vail after the successful test of a Congressionally approved experimental telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington DC in response to repeated requests for information. Separately paginated and with a new title page, the content of this pamphlet is also found on pages [9]-31 of "The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph : with the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, employing electricity or galvanism." published in Philadelphia by Lea & Blanchard in the same year. Norman and Hooke's Origins of Cyberspace (#208), cites this pamphlet, noting that it was "probably" issued first. Both contain… Read More

Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. XIV, 144, [2] pages. Original publisher's yellow and black printed wrappers. Minor sunning to the spine, clean internally, a good working copy. Wraps.

Amsterdam: C. G. Van Der Post, 1853. First Separate Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Separate Edition. [1]-24 pages. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Uncut and unopened. 4to. 9 x 11.25 inches. Front wrapper darkened overall and at the edges. Text in Dutch. Loosely translated, the title is: "On the theory of magnetic lines of force of Faraday. Published by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam" Wraps. No doubt in part a commentary on Faraday's "On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force" published in the previous year. We find Coulomb, Ohm, and Ampere mentioned in the text as well, We've found little about Van Rees who was professor of mathematics and experimental philosophy at the University of Utrecht between 1831 and 1867. (Univ of Groningen website). An early reaction to news of Faraday's theory which clearly spread quickly. It is unclear if this was an offprint or originally issued in this format.

New Orleans, Louisiana: Century Graphics Corporation, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Old price sticker on front dj cover. Internal spotting (almost dampstaining but not continuous) to the dj, mostly at the flap folds. One stain show-through on back dj. Several small closed tears to the dj, and some minor rubbing. 32 color reproductions of his paintings, a few black and whites (including full page image of artist), and several pages text. Presents nicely on the shelf front out. Hard Cover.

various: various. Good. A fun group of blotters ranging in size from 3 x 6 inches to 4 x 9 1/4 inches. Only is one used as a blotter. Some creasing, edge tearing, etc. Blotters include: 1) Frank H Fleer Corporation, Philadelphia (Star Spangled Banner). Dubble Bubble Gum. 2) Fanny Farmer Candies. Easter 3) Penn Leather Co, Philadelphia. Shoe repair. 4) Crown Shade & Screen Co, Boston MA. Window Shades and Screens. (2 copies) 5) Storrs & Bement Company, Boston MA. Stocking Wrenn's Porcelain Blotting (this one a sample of the "pea green" shade) and showing Egyptian Potter at work 6) G. W. Partridge, Webster, Mass. Painter (uses Dutch Boy White Lead Paint) 7) Farmers Savings Bank, Vining, Iowa. Banking services (1924) 8) A. J. Tower Co, Boston and Toronto Canada. Waterproof Clothing, Slickers, and Fabrics. 1903 9) Hotel Herm??, Nashville, Tenn. Insignia Guide. Copyright 1941, Geographia Map Co, NY. Sticker "For Freedom re-elect Roosevelt" partially covering hotel information. Stained. A total of 10… Read More

Various: The 1959 Eastern Joint Computer Conference for The National Joint Computer Committee, 1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 260 pages. Tan printed wrappers. Several stains to wrappers, upper corner bumped. Clean internally. Staples rusted, front cover glue cracked but not yet loose. Wraps. Sponsored by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), and The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), this is the 16th conference held on the subject of computing. Contains articles by many pioneers including Eckert, and machines including UNIVAC-Larc, The STRETCH computer, MIBIDIC B, and many other ideas including magnetic drum memory for subminiature digital computers. One of the more interesting non-computer papers is "Critical-Path Planning and Scheduling" by J. E. Kelley, Jr., and M. R. Walker. "The critical path method (CPM) is a project modeling technique developed in the late 1950s by Morgan R. Walker of DuPont and James E.… Read More

various: various, 1970. Three Ring Binder. Good. We offer a large archive of fireworks labels dating to the 1970s, including 175+ labels collected from various manufacturers and countries, mostly India and China, but with a few from Japan and even America. The archive is contained in two binders labeled "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO. 3" (containing 82 labels mostly of Indian origin), and "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO 4." (99 labels, mostly of Chinese/Macau origin with a few from Japan and America). This archive was collected in the 1970s (presumably by someone in the fireworks business), and placed in old photograph albums with the "magnetic glue" format which has transferred to the backs of many of the labels. In some cases lines are visible on the front of the labels. We've left the labels in the albums as is, partly because there are some penciled notes on some pages indicating a date or (in album 4) "PGII CONV" presumably for the Pyrotechnics Guide annual conventions. They are easily removable, but… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Physical Laboratories of Harvard University, 1932. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. 47 pages of text and photographs about the laboratories, followed by 40 reprints of papers by scientists working in those laboratories (each with various paginations). 6 3/4 by 9 3/4 inches. 3/4 leather over cloth boards (publisher's annual volume). Red speckled page edges. Boards slightly bowed outward. Otherwise an excellent copy. Boards. Collects 40 papers published by Harvard scientists in peer reviewed journals during the year. This volume contains seven papers by P. W. Bridgman, including some of his high pressure work from Proc. Am Acad., Physical Review, and American Mathematical Society. The papers appear to be offprints. Given the different paper stocks the papers were either separate offprints bound and trimmed to volume size at Harvard University Press or reprinted onto larger paper stock with the addition of the introductory material. Individual wrappers, if any,… Read More

Bologna: Dalla tipografia Cardinali e Frulli, 1827. Boards. Very Good. Vol 1: [10], 322 pages plus 3 folding plates. Vol 2: 383 pages plus 1 folding illustration in middle and 3 folding plates in the rear. Leather spine and corners over marbled boards. 2 Volumes bound in 1. 8vo. Wear to the extremities, first folding plate in Vol 2 proud (not properly folded). Otherwise generally bright and clean internally. Text in Italian. Boards. This work includes notes and additions to elements and hydraulics of Giovanni Venturi. Venturi was an Italian physicist interested in optics and color, but he is best known for his work in hydraulics. Not in Biblioteca Mechanica, although several of Venturi's works are.

Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1972. Boards. Near Fine. [8], 233, [1] pages. Printed green and white boards. 8vo. A clean, solid copy. Text in English. Boards. The Foundations of Language / Supplementary Series / Volume 14.

New York, Chichester, brisbane, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. xiii, [3], 348 pages. Publisher's light purple cloth with black lettering. Minor staining to the binding. The paper quality and binding quality of this book (which was originally published in India) is not as strong as usual - light browning to the pages, etc. Still, a useful working copy in the HARDCOVER edition. Dust jacket is faded at the spine, and has minor wear overall. Hard Cover.

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1900. Later printing. Later printing. [2], ii, [5]-201 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Decorated wrappers. Wear to extremities, paper browned. Given the fragility of the binding, a remarkable survival. One of many reprints of this work done during the late 19th/early 20th century. This specific edition is not called out by Taves and Michaluk in their long list of reprints, although Westbrook is noted as one of many reprints issued during the 1900 period. This particular edition is also not found in OCLC/Worldcat. A nice addition for the completest or scholarly collection.

Coldbrook Springs, Massachusetts: F. T. Viles, 1880. Near Fine. 8 x 17 1/2 inches. An advertising assemblage related to the Holcomb Speaking Telephone, washed and laid down on archival tissue, in the form of a broadside. The top and bottom portions of the assemblage are lighter in appearance, the center portion shows evidence of foxing before being washed. There is also evidence near the right edge as if the assemblage was in a frame at some point (perhaps for use in the Agent F. T. Viles' office?). J.R. Holcomb & Co. of Mallet Creek, Ohio patented an acoustic speaking telephone on July 9th, 1878. We find Holcomb advertisements in the Boston Weekly Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) during the same period when Bell Telephone and several other companies had employed agents to sell on their behalf. Holcomb issued a series of four page brochures for sales use (one such in OCLC #35360545). We've seen them dated 1879, 1880, and 1881 based on "testimonial" content. They have several distinctive and prominent… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: McCrone Research Institute, 1990. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. v, 180 pages. Original crimson boards. A bright clean copy. Boards. Volume 20 in the Microscope series by McCrone. Chapters include Polarised Light and Equipment for Microscopy, Optical Anisotropy, The Propagation of Polarised Light Through Single-Domain Birefringent Speciments, The Propagation of Polarised Light Through Superimposed Birefringent Domains, Microscopical Observations on Inorganic Single Crystals, Microscopical Observations on Polymers, Microscopical Observations on Liquid Crystals, and an Appendix Calculating the Magnitude of the Refractive Indices and the Orientation of the Corresponding Polarisation Azimuths When Light is Propagated in an Arbitrary Direction Through a Biaxial Speciment.

London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Second Edition. Cloth. Good. Second Edition. 192 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Price clipped dust jacket with creasing and tearing at the edges, but mostly intact. 49 figures and 23 photographic plates illustrating state of the art at the time. Since the first edition (published in 1939), there were several passages completely re-written, and a completely new set of photographs were taken. Image of a 3,200,000 voldt Ferranti Impulse Generator on the front cover. Hard to find in the dust jacket. Cloth. Chapters include Force, Work, Energy and Power; Conductors and Insulators, Cables; Generators, I: Batteries, Chemical Action of Currents; Magnetism, Electric Measurements, and Electro-magnets; Generators II: Electric Motors and Generators, Direct and Alternating Currents; Transformers and Distribution of Power; Heating and Lighting; Electric Discharges, Lightning, the New Lamps; Electrical Methods of Communications, I: Telegraphy, Telephony; Electrical… Read More

Contoocook, New Hampshire: MCT, Inc, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. xxvi, 622 pages. 4to. Original green cloth and printed dj. INSCRIBED by Violette to Steve Mendelson Kearsage Valley Magazine Channel 10 and 13 host. A labor of love, this is an in depth (over 600 large pages) history of the company. Wonderful for history buffs, telephone collectors, and others interested in the history of the development of independent telephone companies. Several additional pieces of ephemera laid in. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. Cloth. Very Good. x, 521, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. Previous owner name and address inked on front flyleaf. Bookseller ticket (De Wolfe & Fiske Co, 2 Park St. Boston, Mass) on front flyleaf. Otherwise a clean copy. Cloth.

London and Prague: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons ; SNTL, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. [1]- 465 pages, with the 17 tables (numbered I to XVII) in rear pocket (one extra duplicate) still in original paper sleeve. Publisher's blue-grey cloth. Clean internally (noting previous owner stamp), sound binding, with integral ribbon for page marker. Cloth. A systematic monograph on technical glasses. The foreword notes that the book "covers over 850 different sorts of technical glasses". Sample section titles include Properties of Technical Glasses, Glasses of the G20 type, The Glass Electrode, Sealing Glasses, Glasses resistent to Metallic Vapours, etc. Co-published with SNTL, Publishers of Technical Literature Prague, and translated into English by Sylvia E. Myhre and K. Fink, authorized English edition by K. Caslavsky. Highly technical, apparently core reference (cited by many websites on glass). For those interested in other monographs by Volf, this is NOT the treatise Chemical… Read More

London and Prague: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons ; SNTL, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. [1]- 465 pages, with the 17 tables (numbered I to XVII) in rear pocket still in original paper sleeve. Publisher's blue-grey cloth. Clean internally with sound binding, with integral ribbon for page marker. Signatures on front flyleaf of Woldemar A. Weyl (founder of Glass Science, Inc., a short lived industry collaborative that included Bausch and Lomb) and L.O. Upton, an AO/Bausch and Lomb glass specialist. Cloth. A systematic monograph on technical glasses. The foreword notes that the book "covers over 850 different sorts of technical glasses". Sample section titles include Properties of Technical Glasses, Glasses of the G20 type, The Glass Electrode, Sealing Glasses, Glasses resistent to Metallic Vapours, etc. Co-published with SNTL, Publishers of Technical Literature Prague, and translated into English by Sylvia E. Myhre and K. Fink, authorized English edition by K. Caslavsky. Highly… Read More

Paris: Lefevre and Deterville, 1818. Hard Cover. Fair. 2 large foldout plates. Volume Dix-Neuvieme ONLY [ 19 nineteen]. Ex-library, 1/4 leather over paper boards, with lower half of the spine lacking. Front and rear hinges tender but still attached. Textblock tight and clean noting minor foxing to the plates. 448 pages. Full title: Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire nouvelle Edition Physique Tome Dix-Neuvieme [ 19 Nineteen ] ONLY. Hard Cover.