![Item #13130 Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft [SIGNED]. Paul ALLEN](https://longbrosbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13130.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781801832)
New York: Portfolio / Penguin, (2011). First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, 358. illustrated. Teal paper spine over white boards lettered in silver. In dust jacket which shows lightest wear to extremities. Signed by Allen on the front free endpaper with a typed note laid in on.....
Stiff Printed Wraps. 4to. Seven items: (1.) Northrop Flying Wings by Edward T. Maloney, WWII Publications 1980 revised edition. (2.) Pilot's Handbook for YB-49 Airplane by Northrop Aircraft Inc., Aviation Publications 1984. (3.) The Horten Flying Wing in World War II - History and Development of the Ho 229 by.....
Annapolis, Maryland: Beechcliff Books, (1987). Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 200. Illustrated throughout with a mix of color and black & white photographs and illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Bound in forest-green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration stamped on cover and gilt lettering printed on spine. Clean throughout. Inscribed by the authors.....
[Seattle]: Boeing Airplane Company, 1959. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wraps. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 44. B&w photo reproductions, color illustrations and diagrams throughout. Stiff color illustrated paper wraps, saddle stapled. Minimal rubbing to edges and light scuffs to covers, else crisp and bright. Colorfully illustrated with artist concepts of a lunar.....
Mount Vernon, NY: Consumers Union, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xiv, 167. Illustrated throughout. Gray cloth lettered in red. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. From "mechanical buttocks" to a "sneeze machine," a staggering variety of products presented in photographs that at times evoke the best.....
Brussels: M. Weissenbruch S. A., n.d. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. Pp. 69; 295; 189. French language. Illustrated with black & white photographs, maps and diagrams. Coated paper. Bound in navy blue cloth, lettering stamped in silver. Book 1 Instruments et Méthodes d'observations; Book 2 Données tabulées; Book 3 Traitements.....
London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition thus, first issue. Full calf. Small 8vo. Pp. [iii]-ix, [3], 317, 1pp. errrata; [6], 268pp. Title-pages with vignette portraits. Rebacked with original boards and original spine labels laid on, older bookplate and neat name, some nicks to boards, title label on Vol.....
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, (2002). Second edition. Softcover. 8vo. Pp. 363, maps, notes, glossary, index. New epilogue by the author. Photo-illustrated wraps. Very Good+, some curling to covers. Signed "Best Wishes / to BNG- America" by the author. Only comprehensive history of America's most productive and wasteful.....
New York: Walker and Company, (2002). Reprint. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. xii, [4], 240. Illustrated with black &b white photographs and illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on bookplate opposite half-title. Endpaper maps. Bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering printed on spine. Clean throughout. In the.....
London: John William Parker, 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 520 each in four bound volumes. Index to names, subjects and illustrations. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Quarter bound in tan calf, marbled boards. Spine blind-stamped decorations, stamped gilt rules, gilt lettering in black panel. Edges stained brown. Bernard Gore Brett.....
New York / London: Plenum Press, (1983). Second Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stout 8vo. Pp. xvii, 718. Illustrated with tables and diagrams. With indices of acronyms and subjects. Red cloth, spine titles in gilt: bookstamp to front pastedown, else crisp, square and unmarked. In the illustrated dust jacket: spine.....
(New York): Harry N. Abrams, Inc, (1997). Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. 304. Foreword by Robert V. Bruce. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography and facsimiles. Bibliography. Index. Colored photographs on endpapers. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine and Alexander Graham Bell's signature and.....
np: Privately printed, 1946. Limited Edition. Leatherbound in slipcase. 8vo. Pp. 158. Frontis. portrait photo. Illustrated with a route map of Germany and Denmark. Dark green crush grain leather, spine titles and cover illustration stamped in gilt, borders in blind, decorated endpapers, AEG. Title page signed and hand numbered 83.....
New York / London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. [1-6] 7-472. Illustrated. Three maps and eight folded plates at rear. Black cloth lettered in gilt and red. Very Good, spine creased with some fading to lettering, light edgewear, bookplate. Seminal post-war book on rocketry by.....
New York: Arcade Publishing, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 212. Illustrated with a few b&w photo reproductions. Includes notes. Red and blue publisher's cloth, spine titles in black, blue endpapers. In the unclipped laminated dust jacket: spine moderately sunned. Title page inscribed to Dan and.....
![Item #9831 Science and Civilisation [Civilization] in China Volume 1 Introductory Orientations....](https://longbrosbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9831.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742838027)
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xxxvii, [3], 4-318. With Wang Ling, research assistant. Frontis reprint of calligraphic Chinese characters. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photography. Charts. With two large fold-out maps at rear. Bibliographies. Index. Bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards illustrated.....
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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xxii, , [3], 2-696, followed by a one-page table of Chinese Dynasties. With Wang Ling, research assistant. Frontis reprint of calligraphic Chinese characters. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photography. Charts. Bibliographies. Index. Bound in half cloth over paper-covered.....
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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp.xlviii, 772, bibliographies, index. Frontis reprint of calligraphic Chinese characters. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photography. Bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards illustrated with a picture of a Taoist Genii, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Light soiling to.....
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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xxxvi, 481. With collaboration from Ho Ping-Yu and Lu Gwei-Djen. Frontis reprint of calligraphic Chinese characters. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photography on glossy stock. Bibliographies. Index. Bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards, llustrated with.....
![Item #11497 A Treatise on Practical Navigation [George Naish's copy]. William NICHELSON](https://longbrosbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763665868)
London: Gilbert & Wright, 1792. First Edition. Half leather. 4to. Pp. xliv, 328, 22. Engraved frontis. Title page type in red and black. Illustrated with four additional plates. With appendix. Half calf over marbled paper covered boards, rebacked retaining the spine with gilt titled morocco lettering piece and rules. Cover.....
Glendale, CA: Arthur H Clark Company, 1977. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 275pp., bibliography and index. Illustrations, folding maps. Glossy pictorial boards. Light wear and fade to spine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Volume III in Western Lands and Waters Series. From the Clark bibliography.....
London: John Weale, 1859. Second Issue. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. viii, 122. Frontis. black & white drawing. Illustrated with black & white drawings and diagrams. Appendix. Bookplate on front pastedown. Rebacked over original board, original cream title label on front board, facsimile label on spine. Light edge wear, bumped corners. Thomas.....
New York, Toronto, and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1966). Revised Edition Second printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. x, 325. Illustrated with diagrams in the text and black & white photo reproductions on glossy stock. Bibliography. Index. Bound in navy-blue cloth with gold lettering printed on spine. Foxing to.....
Heidelberg: Karl Winter, 1837. First Edition in German. Original Boards. 4to. Pp. [2 (ads], [8], 84. Illustrated with six lithographic plates. German language. Original boards, dampstained and foxed throughout. Withal, a presentable, partially unopened copy. First edition in German, "one of the earliest works of physical anthropology" (DSB), and the.....
Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., [1929]. First Thus. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 4to. Pp. 36, 2 laid in leaves. Black & white illustrations. Stiff gray paper wraps saddle stapled, titles embossed and printed in blue, blind embossed border and Rampant Colt. Laid in Retail Price List "PL 11" of.....