Search Results: Titles starting with M from Kuenzig Books

[ Newburyport, MA ]: MDTV, 2012. First Edition. Fine. First Edition. Oblong 24 inches by 11 inches (sheet size) with approx 3/4 inch white margins. One of only two copies produced. Printed on archival paper using a large format ink jet printer with pigmented archival inks. Colors bright and vibrant! Between 2009 and 2014 Mark Davis of MDTV produced two documentaries about the Curiosity Rover Mission (aka Mars Science Laboratory). One for National Geographic (MARTIAN MEGA ROVER, aired August 2012) ) and one for The Discovery Channel (RED PLANET ROVER, aired December 2014). While MDTV was gathering primary source material at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a poster project was commissioned by Project Scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech/JPL at the suggestion of JPL engineer Adam Steltzner. Steltzner envisioned the posters as motivational posters to be displayed in the areas where the rovers were being built, much like WWII war effort posters. MDTV agreed to take on the task of design and… Read More

London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row; and J. Cuff, Optician in Fleetstreet, 1743. Second Edition. Boards. Very Good. Second Edition. [2],xvi, [1]-98, [4], 99-311,[13-indices] pages. Pages 307 through index with stain in inner margins affecting text in a few places. With 14 numbered plates (I through XIV) plus the unnumbered folding plate of the solar microscope plus and one folding table. Eleven of the plates are folding. 8vo. Speckled calf rebacked to style with red/gilt spine label. Preserved endpapers and boards. Previous owners on front endpapers: "Ex Lib i.Poulin Med. Monspeliensis(?)" (inked), C. M. Gabriel (bookplate and stamp), and Barnett Cohen (stamp). Old paper snippet affixed to front endpaper with cellotape (bio of Henry Baker). Old pagination in pencil on rear pastedown. Red speckled pages edges. Bright and clean internally, much better than usually found. Boards. A beautifully illustrated work on the microscope and its… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1954. First Separate Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Separate Edition. 4 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Publisher's printed grey, blue and black wrappers, stapled. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. Crease to lower right corner of wrapper. Wraps. The Proceedings of the I. R. E., Vol 41, October 1953 (pp.1348-1351 of the famous Computer Issue) first published this paper. Here offered in the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph Series (#2153: March 1954). We are not aware of any separate IRE offprint for this paper. Unless one is discovered this format constitutes the first separate edition. A significant part of the design engineer's job is how to efficiently and cost-effectively build a project. This paper describes a purpose-built machine (the relay circuit analyzer) that can remove unnecessary components while testing a circuit against its design requirements. The circuit analyzer design, while extensible, has a… Read More

Paris: Jh Pernollet, 1876. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 32 pages (last two blank) plus wrappers. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Printed blue wrappers. Captions in French and German. A rather beat up copy - creased and soiled. Pages 25-30 and rear panel with tears near gutter (affects text, no loss of meaning). First two leaves with small holes affecting a few characters in the text. Well illustrated with prices. Wraps. Loosely translated: "Agricultural machines and instruments: special factory of devices to clean, ventilate, screen, sort and divide all grains and all seeds in general" Scarce, with only two copies in OCLC (Library Company, New York State Library).

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1966. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. [12], 366 pages. Publisher's cloth. 8vo. SIGNED by participant Maurice S. Fox on the front flyleaf. Minor wear to extremities. Cloth. Includes articles or introductions by many luminaries of the time - Kornberg, Hotchkiss, Luria, Fox, and others.

Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1882. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. x, 32 pages + 18 plates (1 colored) and frontis. Square 4to (11 x 11 inches). Publisher's green cloth gilt.. Title page with affixed Woodbury-type from original drawing by C. P. S. Black and white frontis. Bowing of boards at the extremities and light soiling. A nice copy. Cloth. "Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (3 January 1819 - 21 February 1900) was an Italian-born British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza... In 1871 and 1872 Smyth investigated the spectra of the aurora, and zodiacal light. He recommended the use of the rain-band for weather forecasting and discovered, in conjunction with Alexander Stewart Herschel, the harmonic relation between the rays emitted by carbon monoxide. In 1877-1878 he… Read More

London: T. Dolby, Britannia Press, 1824. Wraps. Near Fine. Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Isaac Robert Cruikshank. iv, [3], [8]-59, [1] pages. Plus wrappers and frontis. 6 x 3 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers enclosed in protective wrapper (marbled paper scraps over thin paper) made from binders' waste. The wrapper title notes "Printed from the acting Edition" and the actual title page notes "Printed from the Acting Copy". Frontispiece shows Act I Scene 3 at Dolby's British Theatre. Page [60] shows the proper positions of the actors at closing curtain. Wraps. No. 56 in Dolby's British Theatre series, Priced 6d on the front wrapper. Nicely engraved front wrapper "from an original Drawing, made expressly for this Work, by Mr. I. R. Cruikshank, and executed by Mr. White" Publishing date is circa 1824 based on listing on A3 of "Cast of the Characters at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, 1824" Many, many editions of this work were done from the 18th century onward. This edition seems rather scarce with only… Read More

[Maine]: [publisher not identified], 1856. Good. Broadsheet. Printed in two columns divided by a single line. 9 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches. Stained and folded horizontally. No printer's imprint, apparently as issued. The first paragraph states "The people of the Free States have so long yielded to the arrogant demands of the Slave Oligarchy of the South, that the latter has come to think it can carry any measure it seems fit, no matter how degrading it may be to the character of the free white men of the North." It finishes with "The New York Day Book, one of two papers in New York City that support James Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERICANS, GERMANS and IRISH, who may fall into poverty and be unable to support their families. Here are the Day Book's exact words in speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE: "Sell the parents of these children into SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass a law that whoever will take these parents and take care of them and their OFFSPRING, in sickness and in health, - clothe them,… Read More

Boca Raton, Ann Arbor, Boston: CRC Press, 1991. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. xxi, 470, [1] pages. 8vo. Illustrated boards. A crisp clean copy, noting minor bump to bottom corners. Boards. "During the past decade, electronic products have undergone immense changes. Most hardware contains tens or hundreds of integrated circuits, many of them surface-mounted devices. Those responsible for maintaining this equipment, however, are struggling to keep up with manufacturers of the gear. Technology has altered the way electronic products are designed and constructed. The service bench needs to change as well. Maintaining Electronic Systems examines the maintenance of electronic systems for critical-use applications and is directed toward technician-level engineering personnel involved in the installation and maintenance of electronic equipment for industry. The book examines electronic systems used today in a wide variety of applications and explains how to identify and correct hardware… Read More

Paris: G. Steinheil, 1910. Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. viii, 271 pages. Small 8vo. Original tan stiff paper boards. Endpapers browned, brittle and some chips (as normal). Clean internally with light browning to the pages. 242 figures in the text. Text in French. Stiff Wrappers. Hyacinthe Guilleminot "... studied medicine in Paris and worked as assistant to his teacher Charles Bouchard (1837-1915) in the first radiodiagnostic experiments in Paris. Guilleminot has since been mainly interested in the young radiological discipline and physical applications to biology and medicine . He received his doctorate in 1896. In 1907 he worked at the Physico-Biological Laboratory of the medical faculty and took over in 1911 the management of this institute. In 1908 he organized the first radiological laboratory of the Paris hospitals at the Charité in Paris. During the First World War Guilleminot worked in the medical service of the French army , organized in Bordeaux an electro-radiological treatment center,… Read More

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1967. Wraps. Near Fine. 12 pages. Self wrappers, stapled. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. A touch of browning and a few spots of dirt, otherwise nice and clean. Illustrated. Wraps. Part of the NASA Facts series - an educational publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Public Affairs, Programs Division. Illustrated, a nice piece for thoses interested in the Gemini. Includes images of mock-ups, real photographs from before lift-off, and a nice chart in the rear noting the Gemini Missions I through 12 with crewe, dates, duration, revolutions, and objectives accomplished.

New York , Hoboken N. J. , Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Montreal: Keuffel & Esser Co, 1920. First Edition. Staplebound. Good. First Edition. 37, 8, [1], [3-ads] pages. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Printed buff stapled wrappers, rounded corners as issued. Previous owner name on front cover. Creasing, wear and soiling to covers and spine panel. Clean internally noting a few marginal tears. A working copy, but sound. Staplebound. Original price fifty cents. Printed 'B' lower left front corner and title page, perhaps indicating a later edition of this manual. We are aware of an edition from 1917 as well. What rules this specific guide is useful for isn't completely clear. Page 2 contains a NOTICE that this manual applies "particularly to rules Nos. 4031 to 4041, and does not completely cover our newer rules, Nos. 4041F to 4051, which have a slightly different arrangement of the scales on the slide, necessitating these special directions." The balance of Page 2 includes instructions for some of the later… Read More

Chicago: Published by the Author, 1885. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. iv, [1], 238, [2-ads] pages. Small 8vo. Publishers brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine panel. Minor surface insect damage to covers, lower corners bumped. A bit musty. Clean internally, noting light browning to paper overall. Cloth. Designed for the physician, pharmacist and chemist who needs a working knowledge of these areas.

Chicago, IL: E. H. Sargent & Co, 1914. Cloth. Very Good. 560, xxix pages + 16 pages (ads). 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth gilt. Lightly faded spine, bright and clean internally. A sound clean copy. Cloth. Sargent (the publisher) was also a purveyor of supplies for the chemist and assayer, and provided some nice illustrated advertisements in the rear for balances, furnaces, etc.

London: John Henry and James Parker, 1862. Wraps. Very Good. O. Jewitt. O. Jewitt. [2-a double page illustration], 62, [2-ads] pages. 11 x 13.5 cm. Printed wrappers in brown and red. Paper spine noting "Gothic Surface Ornament" in red. Minor wear, spine with just minor separation at bottom, some soiling/rubbing to wrappers. A scarce survival given the format and subject. Wraps. Front wrapper notes "Series of Manuals, No. 3." at top. "A Manual of GOTHIC Surface Ornament. Oxford and London: James Parker & Co." on the balance of the page. Rear wrapper is blank. Published under the authority of the Department of Science and Art. Dating this item is not straightforward, as widely variant dates confirm in Worldcat. We've dated it to before 1862 as the advertisements in rear note the fifth edition of Rickman's Gothic Architecture as available, and OCLC records confirm the fifth edition as 1848, and the sixth edition as 1862. There was also an edition that included the first three in this series published… Read More

New York: John WIley & Son, 1870. Later printing. Cloth. Very Good. Later printing. x, 116 pages plus 5 folding plates (several colored). 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Corners bumped, minor wear at the extremities. Previous owner name on front flyleaf. A solid copy, noting that several signature are proud of the textblock. Cloth. An interesting treatise which deals not just with the usual geometric examples, but also discusses coloring and tinting with ink and brush, and color aesthetics. Contains four divisions of instruction: Instruments and Materials, Fundamental Operations, Practical Constructions of Two Dimensions, and Elementary Aesthetics of Geometrical Drawing. Designed as a Text-Book, for Self-Instruction. Last plate is a plan for a schoolhouse. S. Edward Warren was a Professor of Descriptive Geometry at RPI. Surprisingly scarce, with only electronic copies available as of this listing. OCLC records editions in 1865, 1868, 1870 (as here), 1871, 1873, 1876, and 1879. Only the 1870 edition breaks… Read More

Wilkes-Barre, PA: The Record Press, 1922. First English Language Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First English Language Edition. Vol 1 Part 1 : xvi, 432 pages, Vol 1 Part 2 : [2], 433-908 pages. The first volume printed in two physical books (1 volume in 2). 7 1/2 inches by 10 1/8 inches. 3/4 leather gilt over marbled boards, speckled page edges. Leather rubbed a touch at the high points. Previous owners name (Susan B. Hutchins) on front endpaper in both volumes. Boards. The English translation of the first (and most extensive part) of the third German edition of "Handbuch der pflanzenkrankheiten." This work, in it's many various editions, has been a standard in the field, eventually reaching seven parts. To the best of our knowledge no other English translations were done for parts of this work. "Through his work, [ Dr. Paul ] Sorauer has decisively contributed to the development of phytomedicine into an independent science. His 1874 published "Handbook of Plant Diseases" is continued today by… Read More

Paris: Octave Doin, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. First Edition. 8vo., pp. x + 659 + blank + 24 (ads); publisher's maroon cloth stamped in black and gilt; spine cocked and lightly sunned, gilt dulled; ex libris bookplate to front pastedown; perforated library stamp to title leaf; library markings in pencil to pp. [vi-viii]; still a good, sound copy. First edition. Illustrated with wood engravings in the text. Vacher, a 19th century French authority on the eye, surveys the physiology of the eye and treatments of various ophthalmic diseases and conditions. His method of cataract surgery, here discussed in detail, was notable. Uncommon in trade. Hard Cover.

[ Illinois ]: [ not published ], 1872. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. 368 numbered pages. 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Suede/leather ledger style binding. Pages 115, 116, 215 bottom, 281 bottom, 293-309, 311 bottom, 313-320 and 329-334 excised. Pages 336-338, 346-368 blank. The balance of the pages (nearly 300) are used for accounts related to the business. Covers warped, with wear to the extremities overall. Manuscript accounts throughout, in a readable hand. Boards. Front flyleaf notations include "W Coldit ?? C & D $17 found on ???..." and below that "Bought from Joe Michaud Iowa City Nov 6, 1985. He bought it Monmount Illinois." With entries as early as 1864 and as late as 1872, this ledger details a decade of business just after the civil war. A few of the more interesting items sold in this drugstore include pills, alcohol, liniment, oil, rosin, whiskey, cough elix, chloroform, kerosene, gold leaf, wicks, spices, corn starch, ginger, camphor, lead, wax, eye salve, soap, tobacco, opii… Read More

[Genessee County, New York]: Not published, 1864. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 360 numbered pages plus notations on endpapers. Folio (9 x 13 3/4 inches). Stamped reverse calf with leather with diced leather reinforcements on the edges and center of spine. Three compartment labels on the spine: "Journal | D | W.D.O. & Co." the middle on red leather, the others on brown. Marbled endpapers. "W. D. Olmsted & Co. Journal D" inked on flyleaf. Entirely manuscript journal/ledger in multiple hands with additional notes on the blank endpapers. Sound, if worn. Boards. The journal records many interesting items. One entry J Lathrop & Co [bankers in Le Roy] draft $1000 Sep 1,, 1863. Another J Lathrop & Co. to cash: "To this amt Pennsylvannia money" for $150. Many transactions with certain kinds and amounts of lumber - we see pine, oak, hemlock, black walnut moulding, etc. Projects include doors, windows, sash, coffin, clapboards, shingles, norway [pine?], bead, moulding, matched, lath… Read More