Peoplesoft Developer's Handbook
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999. Softcover. White/green wraps. xiv, 601 pp. Numerous bw ills. Everything and then some about Peoplesoft development. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999. Softcover. White/green wraps. xiv, 601 pp. Numerous bw ills. Everything and then some about Peoplesoft development. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Softcover. cream wraps w/ black printing. 215 pgs w/ section of bw illustrations. Pages tanned; printing remains dark and detailed. First American paperback edition of Ruth Harrison's expose on England's factory farming industry. More
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1959. Green cloth. 196 pp. A very nice, solid copy of this extremely important examination of one of the most important scientific books printed in England in the 17th Century. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Hardcover. Blue cloth with clear plastic DJ. xv, 490 pp. 55 bw ills. Thorough examination of the ways transporation effected American culture, trade, industry, commerce, and politics. From the preface.... This volume is focused on changes in the means of transporation and their..... More
New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2006. Hardcover. Sliky crimson cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 368 pp., many color ilus.; weighs 4 lbs. A scrutiny of the mechanisms of bank locks made and used in America, from 1834 to 1915. Based on the little-known and fascinating..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., 1927. Softcover. Black flexible leather-like boards with gilt letters on spine & front cover, 206 pp., many BW illus. and drawings. Everything you needed to know for equipping a school shop classroom. Includes notes on care of tools and equipment, as well as their..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards. White lettering. Orange dj with bw photos and white line drawing; black lettering; Mylar cover. [6] + 212 pp. with bw images throughout, numbered by chapter. Beginning with a survey of the history of the film camera and sound recording and..... More
New York: Dover, 1950. Hardcover. Blue Boards. Illustrated dj. xxxi, 638 pages : illustrations, facsimile. Contents: Biographical sketch -- Translation of Books I-XII -- I. Arguments against the art of mining art -- II. The miner and the mining of veins -- III. Veins and stringers and seams in the..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Softcover. Brown illus. wraps, x, 147 pp., 84 BW & 4 color illus. #39 in the series, Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology. A valuable resource guide concerning the early West's saddles. Includes articles about saddles of the West, the Mexicans and the Plains..... More
NY: The W. J. Johnston Company, 1898. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Green library buckram. xix + 439 pp. 184 bw figures. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953. Hardbound. Greyish cloth boards, sideways title on spine. 165, (1), 3 pp index. A delightful copy. More
New York: The Chemical Publishing Co. of New York, 1934. Hardbound. Green cloth. xv, 305 pp., 10 pp. ads. A veritable cornucopiae of forgtten remedies and formulae for everything under the sun. If nothing else, a fascinating read. Early, if not first edition. More
New York: G. Braziller, 1972. Hardcover. Illustrated dj; tan cloth covers. 244 pages illustrations. Vision + value series. Contents: Art and ecological consciousness / Gyorgy Kepes -- Toward a new environment -- The perils of adaptation / René Dubos -- Diversification of cities and the revival of city culture /..... More
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Hardcover. Gray cloth, orange & white dust jacket, 300 pp. "With the publication of David C. Lindberg's first English edition of John Pecham's treatise, Perspectiva communis, scholars have available the most widely read and cited of all medieval works on optics. John..... More
Montchanin, Delaware: Tyndar Press, 1997. Softbound. Illustrated wraps. viii, 168 pp. Illustrated with diagrams. The story of a fascinating and neglected area of technology, from its earliest roots in the 1600s to the 20th century, intelligible to a casual reader yet with depth for the technologist. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Hardcover. Violet & illus. wraps, 342 pp., some BW illus. A collection of 16 essays that once appeared in Isis, a publication of the History of Science Society. Contents: Science in American society: a generation of historical debate / Charles E. Rosenberg --..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1984. Hardcover. Purple cloth, blue DJ. ix, 355 pp. A few charts and graphs. More
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Chocolate cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, cream & illus. dust jacket, 454 pp., many BW illus. "Chronicles the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as..... More
Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1978. Softcover. White ill. wraps. 120 pp. Profuse bw ills. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. Hardbound. Purple publishers cloth with embossed title. xii, 140 pp. Text illustrations from drawings and diagrams; 3 plates at rear. A very readable copy of the first edition of this important treatise. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. Hardbound. Blue library buckram. 216 pp., 7 figures. It is truly amazing that there was so much interest in this book that is has been read to such a degree. Beginning in 1932 this book was checked out at least 60 times. That..... More
Hanover, Penna. Fitz Water Wheel Co., 1941. Softcover. Dusky turquoise paper stapled wraps, 64 pp., many BW illus. A promotional pamphlet touting the goods and services provided by the Fitz Water Wheel Company of Hanover, Pennsylvania, established by Samuel Fitz in 1840. Includes line drawings of mechanical wheels and devices..... More
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; 136 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. A history of the portable sundial, used by people for three millenia before the arrival of watches; Nicely illustrated; Includes a glossary of terms. More
New York: American Machinist / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1910. Hardcover. Slate-gray stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, 348 pp., BW illus. "Has been written to fill a pressing want; to give practical data for cutting, molding, and designing all commercial types, and to present these subjects in the plainest possible..... More
New York: International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. 1930. Softcover. Navy wraps with cream paper label. Includes diagrams. 73 pp. An introduction to using and studying electrical equipment, especially telegraphs and telephones, written for the understanding of laymen. More