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Petroleum Vademecum
by Robert Schwarz
1936 edition, I. Band, XI edition

Book is in Very Good condition.

    * Reference guide and technical paper in German language
    * International petroleum engineering tables
    * Published in 1936



$19.95
$15.95
Photogrammetry
By Francis H. Moffitt
1959 Edition

Near Mint condition in Very Good Jacket

A simple but comprehensive book on the principles of Photogrammmetry. Designed to provide an understanding of those principles and their application, and provide in a clear and concise manner topics encountered in surveying.

    * The author was Assoc Professor of Civil Engineering at the Univ of California
    * Exceptionally clean - appears never to have been read
    * 1959 edition,  International Textbook Company
    * Vividly colored Dust Jacket has some wear at edges





$21.95
$16.95
Patterns of Plausible Inference
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Vol II
G. Polya, 1954 1st Edition

Book is in VERY GOOD + condition.

    * Published by Princeton University Press, 1954 1st Edition, 190 pages
    * This book is concerned with the psychological patterns of inductive reasoneing which lead to those theorems and to deductive proofs. Discussing psychology and philosophy as well as mathematics, Prof. Polya's conclusions have a wide application to everyday life.
    * This is Vol II of a two volume work, but this work can be understood without reference to Vol I.
    * Polya collects observations and then examines them for meaningful conclusions





$24.95
$12.95
Thyristor Control
by F. F. Mazda
1973 first edition

Book is in Excellent condition in Good++ DJ

    * From the DJ: This book is intended to be a dteailed treatise on all aspects of thyristor circuits. Includes information on triacs, power transistors, sidacs and some low-power semiconductors used to control these devices.
    * Wear to the edges of the DJ and small 1/2" tear at edge
    * Published by Halstead Press, 1973, 381 pages
     * 0408000910




$64.95
$29.95
Embrittlement of Metals
B. R. Queneau & G. A. Ratz
Signed by both authors, 1956 1st Edition

Book is in NEAR MINT condition.

    * Published by the American Society of Metals, 1956, 90 pages, 1st Edition
    * Coves the behavior of metals under multi-axial stress, blue brittleness, temper brittleness, and the sigma phase embrittlement of stainless steels, etc.
    * Covers the title subject first in a general way, and then in succeeding levels of detail in a series of 4 lectures, all included in this volume
     *  B000V8RYEG


  


$34.95
X-Ray Research and Development
A Selection of the Publications of the Philips X-Ray Research Lab from 1923 - 1933
1st English Language Edition

A very early set or scientific papers about the uses of X-Rays. A VERY HTF item.  Book is in EXCELLENT condition.

Complimentary copy - First page states "With Compliments of Philips Metalix Corporation"

Name of prior owner written on first leaf

Published by Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken Eindhoven (Holland)




$21.95
$17.95
Curability of Cataract with Medicines
by J. Compton Burnett, M. D., Revised by Dr. N. K. Banerjee


Book is in Good + condition for its age. HC no DJ

    * A.  B Publishers, Calcutta, undated (believe it is between 1940 and 1960), 135 pages
    * "New Revised Edition"
    * Homeopathy in the treatment of Cataract
    * Very clean pages, obvious wear to cover




$34.95
Odd Numbers
By Herbert McKay
1940 1st Edition, 2nd Printing

Book is in EXCELLENT condition.

    * Odd and interesting analysis of the sheer beauty and order of mathematics and how it applies, unseen, to our daily lives
    * Contents include (these are SOME of the 15 chapters):
          o Millions & Billions & Trillions
          o How we got Logarithms
          o Proportion
          o Approximations
          o Oddities of Numbers
    * Pages very clean, tightly bound. Prior owner name and address in pencil
    * Cambridge University Press, 1940, 213 pages




$21.95


















Morfit's Applied Chemistry Soaps and Candles

Campbell Morfit

Book is in Very Good - condition for age. No Dust Jacket

     * Full Title: A treatise on chemistry applied to the manufacture of soap and candles;: Being a thorough exposition, in all their minutiae, of the principles and practice ... most recent discoveries in science and art.

     * 1856, 599 pages. 

     * Covers have light shelf wear. 

     * Covers are blind stamped with intricate design. 

     * Pages are clean and easily readable. 

     * Illustrations are black and white. 

     * Binding is tight.

 

 

 

$219.95

Lone Star Dinosaurs
by Louis Jacobs, artwork by Karen Carr
Inscribed and signed by author

Book is in EXCELLENT condition. DJ is in Good+ Condition

    * Tells the story of dinosaurs in what is now Texas, with the stories behind some of the major fossil finds in the Lone Star State
    * Book does not appear to have been read
    * Small tear upper left of front DJ is the only flaw
    * 1995, Texas A&M University Press
     *  0890966745
  



$37.95


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