Search Results: Titles starting with G from Kuenzig Books

Munchen: R. Oldenbourg, 1874. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 1/2 leather over marbled boards. 1085 pages. Lightly browned pages but not brittle. An important treatise by an important German economist. Sound binding. Hard Cover.

Boston, MA: The Tudor Press, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 254 pages. Publishers' red cloth binding with gold lettering to the spine and front board. Fraying to the head and tail of spine, minor corner wear, and boards bowed away from textblock. Still fundamentally sound. Laid in is "Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Frederic H. Morse, MD., Hotel Sherman, Chicago Ill October 9 1930". Copyright page and opposite page foxed, no doubt where this pamphlet was for many years. INSCRIBED by the author: "To my Friend Julian Vose, I present this little volume founded on the experince of over 40 years in a special work for the relief of suffering and prolongation of exhistance (sic), hoping some of its precepts may apply to your self and family. With best regards, Fred H Morse, Boston March 29th, 37" Cloth.

Hartford: Elihu Geer for the Hartford Steam Printing Company, 1886. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [2], vii-xii, 13-16, [folding map], 31-501 pages. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Publisher's brown cloth with embossed decorations and titles. Spine titles in copper. Front pastedown is calendar for 1866/67. Front flyleaf is Title page. Last page serves as rear pastedown endpaper. Foldout city map is in excellent condition with minor tearing at the fold attachment. Marginal dampstaining to the rear third of the directory at the inner margins. Original circular grommet present at top of spine (for hanging by a string for reference). Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Occasional smudge, lower page edge with an ink spill. A sound working copy. Cloth. More than just a name directory, this guide contains a very large advertising section on colored paper (pp 313-420) filled with great advertisements for city businesses, some containing nice woodcuts (like Fowler, Davis, & Hoyt on page 361), others… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe and Company, 1848. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Isaac Sprague. Isaac Sprague. First Edition. 230, [2-blank] pages + 100 plates (plate 27 bound out of order between plates 21 and 22). 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Soiling to the binding, clumsy repair to top several inches of spine panel. Rear joint starting at top. Engraved black and white plates are clean and nice excepting the first few which have green scuffs on them. Opens more easily at the division between text and plates (lining showing in the gutter), but still sound. Cloth. Issued a year apart, we offer volume one ONLY which contains the first 100 (of an eventual 186 total). Asa Gray was a prominent botanist. He taught at both Harvard and the Lawrence Scientific School for 30 years. "Gray became the leading botanical taxonomist in America in the nineteenth century ... because the American setting demanded priority for a program of classification on a continental scale to match the programs of… Read More

Murray Hill, N. J.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1950. Wraps. Near Fine. [1]-6 leaves. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Reproduced typescript, stapled upper left. Dated in type on the last page. Wraps. The "Report of Proceedings, Symposium on Information Theory" (London) first published this paper in Sept. 1950." The "Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on Information Theory" reprinted it in Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Feb. 1953, pages 102-104, Feb. 1953. We are not aware of offprints from either publication. Offered here is a reproduced typescript of the paper from Shannon's file predating the first publication. We have not compared it to the published papers. Shannon defines a typical communication system as consisting of five elements: 1) an information source. 2) an encoding or transmitting element. 3) a channel on which the signal is transmitted from transmitter to receiver. 4) a receiving and decoding device that recovers the original message from the received signal. And 5) the… Read More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Doubleday-Hill Electric Co, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 1475 pages. Thick 4to. (7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches) Publisher's printed two tone yellow cloth. Covers soiled, bumped at corners. Sound. Last hundred pages with marginal dampstaining lower right corner. Occasional dampstaining at corner tips elsewhere. Well illustrated, occasionally in color. Cloth. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. An extensive General Catalogue by this supplier and manufacturer. In addition to supplying a wide range of materials, they also manufacture and repair many components of large industrial systems. They make Armature Coils, Field Coils, Commutators, Testing Machines, Experimental Apparatus. They repair Dynamos, Motors, Armatures, Commutators, Electrical Instruments, Magnetos (all kinds), self starters, generators, electric fans, strop copper armature and reinsulate coils. A list in the front includes 26 manufacturers they distribute for, including G-E Edison Mazda Lamps,… Read More

London: Nichols and Son, 1803. Boards. Poor. iv, [1]-[604], [16 - indices part I], [2 - title part II ], [605]-1262, [22 - indices] pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. A BINDING COPY. Binding is broken just before part 2 title page, and covers are effectively detached. Ex-library copy with usual library markings, properly discarded. Individual issue titles bound in. Occasional embossed stamps throughout. All plates present in Part the First (Aldgate incorrectly noted at page 41, actually 417), (plate at 505 bound opposite p 512). All plates present in Part the Second (2 in wrong locations but present). Marbled boards and page edges. Crude taping of spine. A binding copy. Boards. The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle was a monthly magazine published from at least 1736-1850. Not only interesting for it's reporting of British history and antiquarian interests, it also records important information about events in the United States of America and other foreign states. In this case, one set of… Read More

Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1907. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with the usual markings. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Roan Mountain Folio Tennessee - North Carolina No. 151. Stiff paper wraps, dirty with crease to front wrapper lower right corner and also to rear cover (not affecting text). Library bookplate rear cover obscuring list of published folios up until this date. 11 pages of descriptive text on "Description of the Roan Mountain Quadrangle" plus explanatory text inside front and rear wrappers. 4 colored plates plus 1 black and white chart and 2 pages of photographic illustrations. 55 x 47 cm. Plates are bright and clean, noting 2 plates have some spotting (offsetting from last text page which is higher acid). A good working copy with some edge tears. Stiff Wrappers.

London: Trubner & Co, 1870. Boards. Very Good. 596 pages. Red half leather over paper covered boards. 25 plates in rear (some colored), 3 portraits of Geologists, and woodcuts in the text. Fore edges of boards bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Leather spine still bright and clean, noting rubbing with minor losses to the head and tail and minor rubbing to the high points. Binding sound. Marbled endpapers. Clean internally. Boards. An entire year of this geology journal.

Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1903. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Cranberry Folio North Carolina - Tennessee Folio No. 90 Library Edition. Stiff paper wraps, dirty wrappers with stain to front wrapper lower right corner (not affecting text). Ex-library with library bookplate rear cover. 9 pages of descriptive text on "Description of the Cranberry Quadrangle" plus explanatory text inside front and rear wrappers. 4 colored plates plus 1 non-colored. 55 x 47 cm. Plates adjacent to the high-acid pages are browned/spotted. Subsequent plates are bright and clean. Chipping at the corners, no loss of text or graphics. A good working copy. Stiff Wrappers.

Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1894. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Knoxville Folio Tennessee - North Carolina Folio 16 Library Edition. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 6 pages of text of "The Description of the Knoxville Sheet". 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean noting some foxing and edge tears not affecting text and associated creases. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers. Stiff Wrappers.

Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1894. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Chattanooga Folio Tennessee Library Edition, Folio 6. 4 colored plates plus one black and white plus 5 pages text. 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers. Clean internally, colored plates are bright and clean. Wraps. Original, not a reissue.

Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1894. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Sewanee Folio Tennessee Library Edition Folio 8. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 4 pages of text of "The Description of the Sewanee Sheet". 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers, though brighter paper than we've seen on many of these. Clean internally, colored plates are bright and clean. Several corner creases. Stiff Wrappers.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1943. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. vii, 152 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth with light blue lettering. Liquid stain on front cover not affecting insides. A sound working copy. Cloth.

[Firenze]: Giunti / [Istituto e museo di storia della scienza], 1995. Wraps. Very Good. 240, [1], [1-blank] pages.10 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches. Publisher's wrappers. Light overall wear. Profusely illustrated with black and white images of instruments in the collection. Text in Italian. Wraps. Title in English:  "The Physics Instruments of the Tuscan Technical Institute OPTICS." An excellent reference work, one of several about the collection. The author, Paulo Brenni, was a major contributor to the history of scientific instruments and left us far too soon. "La Fondazione Scienza e Technica e stata costituita nel 1986 con l'intento di conservare e valorizzare il patromonio scientifico e tecenologico del-l'Istituto Tecnico per Geometri "G Salvemini" di Firenze, nato nel 1853 com Instituto Tecnico Toscano per volere del grandurca Leopoldo H. Questo Istituto, che avrebbe dovuto favorire lo sviluppo industirale dell Toscana, venne dotato di imponenti e preziose collezioni tecnologische, naturalistiche e… Read More

Cambridge, New York, ..: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. xxviii, 464 pages. A bright clean copy with a touch of rubbing to the dj. Hard Cover.

A. Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy, 1773. Boards. Very Good. x, [2], 460 pages including tables + 11 illustrations on 5 plates. 8vo. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbling worn, overall minor wear to the binding. Marbled endpapers dampstained. Marbled page edges. Unobtrusive occasional marginal dampstaining throughout. (pages 157-160 mis-numbered or bound out of order but present). Complete. Boards. Gnomonics (The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.) was of great interest in France during this period. This treatise was known mostly for it's computed tables related to France (only the first 37 pages are explanation and examples, the balance tables). Other works of the period were more useful in explaining the theory and practice, a large number of which appeared after the theory was published in the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1707. (see Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ... by Ozanam for a useful discussion). The… Read More

A. Lille et A. Paris: Chez Vanackere et Chez Courcier, 1806. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. [6], 26 pages plus 10 figures on four folding plates. Plates marked "Durig, a Lille" 8vo. Original pink wrappers. Marginal worming not affecting text or images. Spine paper cracked, cords holding. Rare in the original wrappers. Wraps. Gnomonics (The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.) was of great interest in France during this period. After the theory of dialing was published in the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1707, many treatises on the subject appeared in the 18th century. (see Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ... by Ozanam for a useful discussion). A pencilled note "par Delezenne", suggests a likely attribution to Charles Delezenne (1776-1866) of Lille, a scientist and mathematician who wrote various scientific treatises later in his life. Delezenne returned to Lille in 1805, replacing Testelin as… Read More

Oxford: The Royal Microscopical Society, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. xi, [1], 116 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A used copy, with minor discoloration and wear to the binding. No dust jacket as issued. Cloth. A history of the early days of the Society, with 48 illustrations of people involved, early microscopes, and other fun material. "The Society was founded as "The Microscopical Society of London" in 1839 and was awarded its Royal Charter in 1866. A lot has happened since then... The origin of the Society can be traced back to a meeting of seventeen gentlemen - including Edwin Quekett and Joseph Jackson Lister - at Wellclose Square, London on 3rd September 1839. They met "to take into consideration the propriety of forming a society for the promotion of microscopical investigation, and for the introduction and improvement of the microscope as a scientific instrument." Following discussions, the group resolved to establish a Society and a provisional… Read More

Oxford: The Royal Microscopical Society, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. xi, [1], 116 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A bright clean copy. No dust jacket as issued. Cloth. A history of the early days of the Society, with 48 illustrations of people involved, early microscopes, and other fun material. "The Society was founded as "The Microscopical Society of London" in 1839 and was awarded its Royal Charter in 1866. A lot has happened since then... The origin of the Society can be traced back to a meeting of seventeen gentlemen - including Edwin Quekett and Joseph Jackson Lister - at Wellclose Square, London on 3rd September 1839. They met "to take into consideration the propriety of forming a society for the promotion of microscopical investigation, and for the introduction and improvement of the microscope as a scientific instrument." Following discussions, the group resolved to establish a Society and a provisional committee was appointed to see it through. Their… Read More