Miners and Assayers Text Book Adapted to the Laboratory and School . Practical Instructions to Assayers, Miners and Prospectors. Testa and Assays of All the Principal Metal-Bearing Rocks, Including Gold and Silver Bullion by Fisk, J. H - 1898

London; Octopus Books; 1984. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. H/b; illus boards; vg; 8vo; 286pp; short stories by various authors; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Society for Psychical Research, 1953. First Thus. . Paperback. G. 8vo. 37pp A good copy in pale orange paper covers with minor creasing, rusting staples. Minor fading to spine. A punning automatism

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-27. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Miners' and Assayers' Text-Book, etc..

St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission. Very Good. 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Vertical crease to the front cover. Owner's stamp on the front, back & inside. Blue pencil notes in the text. A nice little bit of ephemera from the Exposition. ; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 40 pages .

London: Imperial College Expedition. privately published scientific report planned by a gropup of second year undergraduates at Imperial College to the Elburz Mountains of N Iran, report covers practicalities eg expenditure and food as well as scientific findings including fold out maps etc and data. Scientific work includes a study of Dactylis glomerata and an engineering geology report. Funding for the expedition included donations from BP and other oil companies 68pp hardbound some water staining to tops of pages else clean and sound . Good. Hardcover. 1960.

[s.l.] : The Rockefeller University Press, 1965., 1965. Very Good. 2nd printing ; paper wrappers ; OCLC: 520125 ; LCC: 65-18302 ; ex-lib, stamps, pocket, label; numerous articles on various subjects by prominent scientists, as well as the complete address by John F. Kennedy ("A Century of Scienctific Conquest"), wi th a good photograph of the President, not often seen elsewhere ; scarce ; a little bit of soiling to bottom corner of textblock, else VG

1946. New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1946. 8vo. Volume XXV, Number 2, April 1946 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. With previous owner's name to front wrapper. Sunning to spine and margins of front wrapper. Back wrapper loose. An overall nice and clean copy. Pp. (4), 167-349. First printing of Bell Labs Magnetron issue. The Magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that through a stream of electrons in a magnetic field generates microwaves. This reduced the size of radar sets which made it possible to install them in anti-submarine aircrafts and escort ships. This had a profound influence on the warfare during WWII. Today magnetrons are commonly used in microwave ovens and in various radar applications."The studies of Fisk, H. D. Hagstrum, and P. L. Hartman [the present paper] increased the understanding of the role that the various possible modes of oscillation played in magnetron operation and the effect of the… Read More

1946. New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1946. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume XXV, Number 2, April 1946. Light miscolouring to spine and previous owner's name to front wrapper. Other wise a fine and clean copy. Pp. (4), 167-349. First printing of Bell Labs Magnetron issue. The Magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that through a stream of electrons in a magnetic field generates microwaves. This reduced the size of radar sets which made it possible to install them in anti-submarine aircrafts and escort ships. This had a profound influence on the warfare during WWII. Today magnetrons are commonly used in microwave ovens and in various radar applications."The studies of Fisk, H. D. Hagstrum, and P. L. Hartman [the present paper] increased the understanding of the role that the various possible modes of oscillation played in magnetron operation and the effect of the wire straps - which later evolved into two pair of… Read More