Albany: Steam-Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1839-40. Quarto (34cm). Contemporary half-calf over paper-covered boards; [3],208pp; inserted portrait frontispiece (of Buel); text illustrations. Binding scuffed, leather on spine somewhat dry, but structurally sound and internally quite clean but for some mild to moderate foxing, most pronounced on title page and first..... More

New York: Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Fine condition. Typed letter signed by Harry A. Williams, Managing Editor of the Association, dated September 30, 1965, addressed to Garth L. Mangum of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress. More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1931. First Edition. Small folio. 34cm. Later heavy grain oatmeal cloth with black leather title label to spine. 258pp.; [1]. Clean and strong, minor bumping to spine ends; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout with photographs, color images, and charts, all with captioned tissue guards. A near..... More

London: Putnam, 1962. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's black and white speckled cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 278pp. Some minor bumping to spine ends and corners, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh, red endpapers, red topstain, some spotting and soiling to page edges; in a strong..... More

Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1982. Sixth Printing. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-272,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Richard Snowden / who shares my interest in aviation / With warm best regards / Charles Barton / Warrenton, VA. 3/7/93." Light shelfwear, faint curl to..... More

Hillsboro, OR: TimerTimes, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (22.5cm). Black cloth in black and white pictorial dust jacket; black and white pictorial endpapers; 288pp; black and white photos throughout. A straight, sound copy with minor external dustiness, especially at top edge: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Eleventh edition. Quarto (30cm). Rebound in modern brown calf, titled in gold on leather spine labels; plain modern endpapers; [i]-vii, [xi]-xii, [i-ii], [ix]-x, [i-ii], [1]-495pp; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 37 engraved plates (some folding), and 546 in-text wood engravings. Printed in two columns..... More

London: Morgan Bros, LTD., [n.d.]. Quarto (35cm); red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [1],2-452pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear, with trace soil to covers and front endpaper; Very Good+. History on engineering, with sections on discoveries, production methods, and..... More

Long Bech, CA: Lorenz & Herweg, Publishers, 1976. Ocatvo (23.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 308pp; illus. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near..... More

Cambridge: Robert Bentley Inc., 1965. Second Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket, red topstain to textblock; xii, 147pp. 12 b&w plates inserted, illustrated with line drawings throughout. Mild shelf wear to boards, including light bumping to bottom edge of boards. Some foxing to textblock, appearing as a few small..... More

London: William Clowes & Sons, 1852. First Edition. First printing. Stout octavo (26cm). Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx,[1]-867,16pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves, with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright..... More

Philadelphia: B. Warner, M. Carey & Son, and Bennett & Walton, 1821. First American Edition. Octavo (23cm). Rebound with green marbled paper over boards, backed in green buckram, titled in gilt; modern yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-304, [i]-viii [9]-92pp; 8 plates. Clean and tight, though rubbed at edges; paper heavily browned..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1852. Second Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; [4],698pp.; illus. throughout. Boards and leather rubbed at extremities with some exposure at corners, spotting throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label..... More