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$18.00
xxrkf124561

The Wonder Book of Motors: The Romance of the Road


GOLDING, HARRY (Ed)

Torn page, large super octavo hardcover (tatty) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock and Co Ltd n/d

KEYWORDS: motor transport cars history engineering travel exploration

$100.00
2i12/37

Handbook of the Steam-Engine. Containing All the Rules Required for the Right Construction and Management of Engines of Every Class, with the Easy Arithmetical Solution of Those Rules Constituting A Key to the 'Catechism of the Steam-Engine


BOURNE, JOHN

octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, yellow eps, xii + 474pp + 6pp adverts, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, ligth puckering to bottom of front board, heavy bruising to board edges, bookseller's lebel to fep, moderate browning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: D. Appleton & Co 1870

KEYWORDS: steam engine locomotion engineering history trains transport reference vehicle manual

$14.00
xxrad116409

Railway Engineer; The Story of George Stevenson


JUDSON, CLARA INGRAM

first edition octavo black cloth boards, illus 171pp ex library with usual treatments VG- ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: charles Scribner's sons 1941

KEYWORDS: railways locomotives trains transport george stevenson biography engineering

$55.00
2i14/34

I.C.S. Reference Library: Nautical Definitions, Heat, Gases and Steam, Shell Boilers, Water-Tube Boilers, Marine-Boiler Mountings, Combustion, Fuels and Firing, Smoke Prevention and Draught, Marine-Boiler Repairs, Marine-Boiler Inspection


N/A

Super octavo, half bound, brown boards with gilt lettering to leather spine, patterned eps, il + 678pp, illus, VG- (front board detached but present, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing to spine, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to page edges, owner's name in ink written across text on title page)

PUBLISHER: International Correspondence Schools (n/d)

KEYWORDS: engineering repairs nautical technology marine boilers reference fuel combustion physics

$40.00
2i15/24

Architectural Practice and Procedure: From Appointment to Final Account for Architects, Surveyors and the Building Industry


BENNETT, PHILIP H.P.

Super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 186pp, illus, VG (correction tape to fep, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading to spine, light rubbing, light soiling, light creasing)

PUBLISHER: Batsford Academic and Educational 1981

KEYWORDS: architecture reference buildings engineering

$45.00
2i16/15

Press Tolls and Press Work


WALLER, JOHN A.

Super octavo, heavy card boards, green lettering to spine & front board, 378pp illus, VG- (heavy rubbing & soiling to boards, heavy fading to spine & boards, light bruising to board corners & spine extrems, sporadic scratches to rear board, permanent marker to lower page edges, light soiling to page edges, minor underlining in pencil to a few pages, minor soiling to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Portcullis Press Ltd. 1978

KEYWORDS: mechanical engineering press tools presswork

$10.00
xxrld125195

Famous Tank Battles


ICKS, ROBERT J.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1972

KEYWORDS: military history tanks machinery engineering

$14.50
xxrld125200

The Next World War: Computers are the Weapons and the Front Line is Everywhere


ADAMS, JAMES

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster 1998

KEYWORDS: military computer warfare technology engineering politics espionage

$55.00
2i16/48

The Building and Running of Steam Traction Engine and Roller Models


PLASTOW, H.R.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 179pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (dust wrapper stuck down to rear paste down with large sticker, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Lion Engineering Co. 1978

KEYWORDS: locomotion trains engineering steam rollers history manual reference

$9.00
xxrlj125475

Human Cloning: Playing God or Scientific Progress


LESTER, LANE P. & HEFLEY, JAMES C.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Fleming H. Revell 1998

KEYWORDS: genetics clone dna science ethics genetic engineering

$40.00
2i21/34

Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems: Fourth Edition: 1992-1993


BLAKE, BERNARD (ed)

Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 651pp, illus, VG (library pocket to fep, light tanning to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Jane's Information Group 1992

KEYWORDS: surveillance Radar Electronics military engineering technology

$12.00
xxrmd125771

Hobson's Choice: Recollections of a North Country Engineman


HOBSON, DENNIS

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Oxford Publishing Co 1986

KEYWORDS: rail railways history autobiography memoir Dennis Hobson transport England trains engineering mechanics

$35.00
xxrme125823

Chas, Roe Coachbuilders Vol. One 1920-1942


MARSHALL, ROY

Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Transport Publishing Company 1979 approx.

KEYWORDS: transport history engineering England industry bus coach

$120.00
2i24/39

Modern Motorcycle Mechanics


NICHOLSON, J. B.

Super octavo, orange boards with silver lettering in brown panels to spine, gilt lettering in brown panel to front board, 766pp, illus, VG (some soiling to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's and prev. owner's details to fep)

PUBLISHER: Nicholson Brothers 1974 (Seventh Edition)

KEYWORDS: automotive engineering motorcycle motorbike mechanics

$195.00
2i25/4

Principles and Practice of Aerial Navigation


DUMBLETON, LIEUT. J. E.

From the library of the Oxford University Air Squadron, first edition, octavo, blue-grey buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind stamped lettering to front board, vii + 172pp + 15pp book ads to rear, illus plus folding charts, VG (some staining to boards, light tanning to page edgdes, small ding to front board lower edge, bookseller's label to front pastedown, library stamps to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Crosby Lockwood & Son 1920

KEYWORDS: aviation aeronautical engineering aerial navigation

$10.00
xxrmf126082

Toughness and Brittleness in Metals: Lectures Delivered at the Institution of Metallurgists Refresher Course 1960


PETCH, N. J. ET AL

Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Iliffe Books/Interscience 1961

KEYWORDS: metallurgy science metals lectures education engineering alloys

$16.50
xxrmi126280

The Story of the Kingston Flyer


MILLER, F. W. G.

Imperial octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history rail railway trains Kingston flyer steam engineering

$14.00
xxrmj126324

Famous Aircraft: The B-17 Flying Fortress


BIRDSALL, STEVE

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Arco Publishing 1965

KEYWORDS: aviation b-17 raf history military engineering motors bombers

$175.00
2i29/9

Forty Years of Ferrari V-12 Engines


GASICH, W. E.

Large oblong quarto, black boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, iii + 80pp, illus, VG (slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (4cm closed tear to upper edge repaired with archival tape, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Society of Automotive Engineers 1990

KEYWORDS: Ferrari cars motor racing automotive engineering V12 engines

$55.00
2i29/21

Turbines Steam Water and Gas


WESTBURY, EDGAR T.

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to sipne & front cover, xi + 107pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards edges & corners, some tanning to page edges & eps, small closed tear to paper of rear pastedown) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate staining, moderate creasing to edges, heavy creasing to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Percival Marshall & Co 1964

KEYWORDS: turbines engineering education

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