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Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of…
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Crusader Bicycles advertising booklet.
by Mead Cycle Company
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Chicago: the Hollister Press for the Mead Cycle Company, [early 20th-century]. 12 page advertising booklet, stapled self-wraps. Colour and two-tone chromolithographs. 2 horizontal creases from folding, some spotting and dulling to the cover. Very good condition. An attractive, early 20th-century advertising booklet for Crusader Bicycles by the Mead Cycle Company of Chicago. It includes two wonderful chromolithographs, including a double page spread depicting the Advance Model Crusader de Luxe for $19.85 and the Crusader Coaster-Brake Special for $17.80. The upper cover advertises their policies, including free shipping, a free 30 day trial, and five year guarantee, and there are also ads for a variety of accessories. "What more do you want in a wheel? What greater assurance could you ask in buying a bicycle? We are putting our priceless reputation behind these two latest Crusader Models and behind the unqualified statement that when you buy one you are making the best bicycle selection and the wisest bicycle investment that anyone could possibly make". Mead was one of Chicago's first bicycle manufacturers, beginning operations in 1889 and selling nationally through mail order catalogues such as this one.
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Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere.
by Rayleigh, Lord & William Ramsay
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Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley.
by Ridley, Elizabeth.
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1941. Hardcover. Good. Oblong Quarto. Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley, with three wartime Naval yearbooks & souvenir books owned by her sister Christine, a naval air mechanic in the WAVES programme. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). 1941-45. Contemporary dark blue skiver elaborately embossed in grey with military motifs including an American Eagle, planes, tank, battleship, artillery, and blimp. Bound with black nylon ties that may not be original. 80 black paper pages containing 219 photographs attached with photo corners. The photos range in size, with the majority measuring 90 x 60 mm, and the largest 255 x 200 mm. A few items, including some photos, a small colour Kodachrome, several negatives, and an unused Anchor Line trunk label are loosely inserted. Elizabeth has written her name and address on the front free endpaper and annotated many of the photos with white ink. The naval books owned by Christine Ridley include We Keep 'Em Flying: A Visit…
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A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle" [in] Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, volume 12, number 1, pages 23-41.
by Robinson, J. A.
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Baltimore, MD: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Remnants of a mailing label to the upper wrapper. Just a little rubbed and creased. Excellent condition. First publication of the resolution principle, the standard of logical deduction in AI applications. The basic computational method in logic programming, the unification algorithm, was proposed by mathematician Jacques Herbrand in 1930, but its first practical use was not discovered until Robinson introduced it in this paper as the basic operation of his resolution principle. "Robinson described his resolution principle as 'machine-oriented' in that it was particularly suitable for proofs to be performed by computer, having only one rule of inference that could be applied many times. Robinson's resolution has since been used as the standard of logical deduction in AI applications" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 865). "Born in Halifax, England, and having served in the RAF,…
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Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Die Zauneidechse. Lacerta agilis. [Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates: Sand Lizard. Lacerta agilis.]
by Schmid, Bastian
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Munich: J. F. Schreiber & Deutsche Hochbild-Gesellschaft, c. 1920s. Painted plaster anatomical relief display in wooden frame (240 x 302 mm). Printed paper label to the rear. Housed in the original box with the stamp of the publisher's archive and two handwritten labels - one giving the name of the display and the other reading "F22". Also with the original tissue-covered cotton insert to protect the relief. Some minor spots and scuffs to the frame. Slight damage to the paper backing of the frame not affecting the its integrity. Some wear to the box. Excellent condition. Uncommon, early-20th century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard, here called the fence lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in excellent condition in the original box. This relief was one of a series produced for schools, Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere (Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates), designed by the German behavioural scientist and educational writer Bastian Schmid…
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International Aviation Meet. Grant Park Chicago. Panoramic Post Card.
by (Aviation) Max Rigo Selling Company
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Chicago, IL: Max Rigo, 1911. Folding panoramic postcard (290 x 195 mm). Professionally mounted, gazed, and framed using archival materials. Composite photographic image depicting the Chicago lakefront and early planes. The sender's and receiver's details filled out in black ink, and four landmarks noted on the image in the same hand. Marks from stamp, some toning and spotting of the verso, creasing and wear, particularly near the original folds (which are fragile) and at the corners and slightly affecting the image, small tape repair to one corner on the verso. Very good condition. A striking, oversized panoramic postcard photomontage depicting one of the most important aviation events prior to the First World War, the August 1911 International Aviation Meet at Grant Park in Chicago. The Chicago meet was the largest airshow held up to that time, only eight years after the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers. Over the course of nine days thirty-three amateur and professional aviators…
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Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere.
by Rayleigh, Lord & William Ramsay
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Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of…
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Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley.
by Ridley, Elizabeth.
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1941. Hardcover. Good. Oblong Quarto. Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley, with three wartime Naval yearbooks & souvenir books owned by her sister Christine, a naval air mechanic in the WAVES programme. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). 1941-45. Contemporary dark blue skiver elaborately embossed in grey with military motifs including an American Eagle, planes, tank, battleship, artillery, and blimp. Bound with black nylon ties that may not be original. 80 black paper pages containing 219 photographs attached with photo corners. The photos range in size, with the majority measuring 90 x 60 mm, and the largest 255 x 200 mm. A few items, including some photos, a small colour Kodachrome, several negatives, and an unused Anchor Line trunk label are loosely inserted. Elizabeth has written her name and address on the front free endpaper and annotated many of the photos with white ink. The naval books owned by Christine Ridley include We Keep 'Em Flying: A Visit…
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A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle" [in] Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, volume 12, number 1, pages 23-41.
by Robinson, J. A.
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Baltimore, MD: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Remnants of a mailing label to the upper wrapper. Just a little rubbed and creased. Excellent condition. First publication of the resolution principle, the standard of logical deduction in AI applications. The basic computational method in logic programming, the unification algorithm, was proposed by mathematician Jacques Herbrand in 1930, but its first practical use was not discovered until Robinson introduced it in this paper as the basic operation of his resolution principle. "Robinson described his resolution principle as 'machine-oriented' in that it was particularly suitable for proofs to be performed by computer, having only one rule of inference that could be applied many times. Robinson's resolution has since been used as the standard of logical deduction in AI applications" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 865). "Born in Halifax, England, and having served in the RAF,…
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Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Die Zauneidechse. Lacerta agilis. [Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates: Sand Lizard. Lacerta agilis.]
by Schmid, Bastian
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Munich: J. F. Schreiber & Deutsche Hochbild-Gesellschaft, c. 1920s. Painted plaster anatomical relief display in wooden frame (240 x 302 mm). Printed paper label to the rear. Housed in the original box with the stamp of the publisher's archive and two handwritten labels - one giving the name of the display and the other reading "F22". Also with the original tissue-covered cotton insert to protect the relief. Some minor spots and scuffs to the frame. Slight damage to the paper backing of the frame not affecting the its integrity. Some wear to the box. Excellent condition. Uncommon, early-20th century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard, here called the fence lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in excellent condition in the original box. This relief was one of a series produced for schools, Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere (Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates), designed by the German behavioural scientist and educational writer Bastian Schmid…
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International Aviation Meet. Grant Park Chicago. Panoramic Post Card.
by (Aviation) Max Rigo Selling Company
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Chicago, IL: Max Rigo, 1911. Folding panoramic postcard (290 x 195 mm). Professionally mounted, gazed, and framed using archival materials. Composite photographic image depicting the Chicago lakefront and early planes. The sender's and receiver's details filled out in black ink, and four landmarks noted on the image in the same hand. Marks from stamp, some toning and spotting of the verso, creasing and wear, particularly near the original folds (which are fragile) and at the corners and slightly affecting the image, small tape repair to one corner on the verso. Very good condition. A striking, oversized panoramic postcard photomontage depicting one of the most important aviation events prior to the First World War, the August 1911 International Aviation Meet at Grant Park in Chicago. The Chicago meet was the largest airshow held up to that time, only eight years after the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers. Over the course of nine days thirty-three amateur and professional aviators…
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Wanderings Awheel.
by Ill ) Mead Cycle Company (Chicago
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[Advertisement] A Genuine 1900 model gas lamp...or Burdick 10,000 Mile Cyclometer Free
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Chicago, 1900. Very good, folded.. 1 sheet. Illus. with b/w drawings. 5.5 x 8 inches. On verso: statement to customers entitled "Beware of Misrepresentation," which warns of a series of low-quality imitations of their products being made available for purchase by illegitamate manufacturers and merchants. James L. Mead founded The Mead Cycle Company in 1889 in Chicago. OCLC locates one copy at Northwestern Univ.
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Wanderings Awheel.
by Ill ) Mead Cycle Company (Chicago
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Easy to Make Miniature Rooms #1
by Smith & Kratz
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Small crease to top corner and wrinkle along top edge of front cover. Includes sticker on front cover saying "released by U-Bild Enterprises a Division of U-B Newspaper Syndicate Van Nuts, CA" Solid binding. 23 pages. HH-10. 0.1" X 8.25 X 10.75" 0.1CM x 21.5CM X27.5CM Full color instructions for building two miniature rooms: the Emporium (a small general store) and The Parlour. Last page includes miniature signs to cut out for use in the Emporium. Includes instructions for how to make tiny shelves, a hanging oil lamp, a barrel, a clock, a coffee grinder, butcher's scale, brooms, picture frames, vase of flowers, a fireplace, and how to model various miniature foods in salt dough. Also includes how to build a staircase and shingles for the exteriors.
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How to Light a Doll House
by Dickey, Jean
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Overall in excellent condition with some light wear to the cover at the edges and a spot on the back where there is some yellowed sticker residue. Interior pages crisp, clean and free of markings. 27 pages . 0.1" X 8.25" X 10.75" 0.2CM X 21CM X 27.5CMComplete and detailed instructions of lighting techniques in dollhouses and miniature rooms, with detailed diagrams. Includes information on how to properly space light bulbs in miniatures to keep them from overheating and to cast shadows appropriately as well as how to hide the wiring and transformer. Includes information on how to use a transformer to step down voltage for tiny bulbs. Shows how to make series wiring to be able to light miniature chandeliers and similar multi-bulb miniature fixtures.
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Workshop Wisdom: Dollhouse Crafting Tips From Nutshell News
by Kraszewski, Andra L. (editor)
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Solid staple binding. Clean interiors free of markings. Some light sun fading to the top edge of the back cover. Dollhouse miniatures. 64 indexed pages. 8.5" X 11" 21.5cm X 28cm Quick tips for making convincing accessories miniatures from easily available items. 215 projects ranging from using edges buttons for make picture frames to miniature tools to have to make shag rugs. Includes a longer chapter on how to build exterior details and make shingles.
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's: Top Chops Sectioning Dechroming and Fadeaways
by Barris, George
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Barris Kustom Techniques of the 50's Vol. 1: Top Chops, Sectioning, Dechroming and Fadeaways. Barris, George ISBN-10: 0965200507. . Thaxton Press. Trade Paperback. EXLIB. 128 pages. 10 ½ X 8 1/4.This is volume I of a four volume set.
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Udmurt Folk Embroidery
by Lebedeva S.H
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Udmurt Folk Embroidery. Izhevsk Publishing House (2009). English, Russian, and Udmurt languages. Fine, as new, large hardcover with substantial text and full color and black and white illustrative plates. A history of the tradition with beautiful examples from the National Museum of the Udmurt Republic. A bright, handsome copy. Boxed for safe shipping. 3-b
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L'Art De La Sculpture Sur Bois
by Norbury, Ian
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Rolling Stone Magazine No. 27, February 15. 1968
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The Bee-Man Of Orn
by Stockton, Frank R. & Maurice Sendak
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Frank R. Stockton: The Bee-Man Of Orn. ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1964 Stated First Edition. Holt Library Edition. Exlib. Good/ Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Original price $3.27. Protected in a Mylar wrap. A clean, solid copy. SCARCE. A nice copy.
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The Brownies
by Juliana Horatia (Katherine Milhous, illus.)
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Juliana Horatia Ewing. FIRST EDITION. The Brownies, Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright 1946, Impression A. Please see stock photo. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous, author and illustrator of "the Egg Tree" RARE GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included. Summary: The Brownie story has been told and written in many different ways by Brownie leaders both here (in United States) and in England. This adaptation is the version that the Girl Scouts in the United States use and like best." 50 pages. 5 5/8 X 7 ¾.
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Show 'Em Up in Anagrams
by John, James and Judith West
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Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929. Hardcover. Very good/good. The Perforated Game of that Noble Sport of Philosophers, Poets and Kings, 280 B.C.-1929 A.D." Blue cloth 8vo, 127pp. About Very Good with fading to the cloth, rubbing to the corners and spine ends. In a Good dust jacket, lacking the bottom inch of the spine and with general soil and edgewear. Housed in mylar wrapper. A workbook style of anagram prompts, with three perforated columns at the edge of each page for players to render their formulations, and blank lines to record the results. This copy is about 90-95% intact with only 3-5 written responses in the text. Detachable cards for sending anagrams to friends still present at rear. Marketed as an "absorbing" social activity with overt 18th amendment references on the DJ (example anagrams "Men meet gin, then death" / "End the gin; tame the men" / "Meaneth gin met the end.") A pleasing tactile production designed for defacement, but still nicely preserved.
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