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Barres, Fernand; Eugene Bremaud; Adolphe Schoeller; etc. Les Transformateurs d'Energie. Generateurs. Accumulateurs. Moteurs. Avec les Plus Recentes Applications a la Navigation Aerienne (Two volumes in one)
1910 Full Leather, with the original decorated cloth bi Very Good
4to. (12 by 8.5 inches, 30 by 21 cm.) x, [2], 9-221. Atlas: [2], 13 color plates on heavy card stock, with movable parts, captions on facing versos. The atlas anatomizes with great precision generators and motors and various vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, zeppelins, airplanes. The pulls allow one to see the inner workings of all the machinery, as well as relate it to the other layers, and it is also a fun learning too. An ink mark affecting half the leaves in the fore-edge. Scattered soiling and moderate wear.
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475.00 USD
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Lavater, John Caspar. Translated by Thomas Holcroft Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (Three Volumes in Four) Illustrated by Four Hundred and Eighteen Engravings. To which are added, One Hundred Physiognomical Rules, A Posthumous Work by Mr. Lavater, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Compiled principally from the Life of Lavater, written by his Son-in-Law G. Gessner
London C. Whittingham 1804 Second edition Half Morocco Fine
8vo. While the science of physiognomy propounded most famously by Lavater should now be dismissed as the pinnacle of pseudo-science, the plates on facial types, expressions and features maintain their eternal ability to entertain, and even as one admits the speciousness and circularity of the explanations and reasoning rendered herein, there remains a seductive plausibility in the premise that aspects of personality can be read in a person's visage! Flawless modern red morocco over marbled boards. All volumes are tight. Minor soiling here and there, and a few plates with foxing. Overwhelmingly a clean set.
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800.00 USD
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Pendrey, Peter All is not gold that glitters!
London George Routledge and Sons Limited 1944 First Edition Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spin Very Good Plus
Beware of unintended consequences! A fanciful and amusing parable of the dangers of innovation, with fantastical illustrations. Oblong 4to, 24.5 by 33 cm. 27 pp. A tale of an alchemist and his many thwarted experiments, culminating in the creation of a giant Frankenstein of a beetle who couldn't be contained. Small corner chip to paper pastedown of cover. Light wear.
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150.00 USD
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