Search Results: Authors starting with U from Kuenzig Books

US: Sperry Rand Corporation, 1968. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Bill Bailey. Manual and training guide. Some edgewear to pages, light soiling and darkening to cover. Spiral Bound.

Hard Cover. Good. An apparently unpublished xerox index for this monumental work (at least under this title). Cloth spine over paper boards. 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Contains the title page, 3 blank pages, followed by 7 xerox pages, each apparently an index with 3 unlabeled columns per page. First column is probably the place (Antwerpen, Augsburg, Basel, Berlin, Blaubeuren, Breslau, etc). Second is the artist/designer/compiler (a guess on our part, not labeled) - M. van der Goes, Johan Bamler, Peter Berger, Johann Blaubirer, B. Richel etc etc. Third column notes Taf (Plate) and either a single plate or plate range. So one entry is: "Burgos, Fr. Biel, Taf. 53-56" and another "Coln Joh. de Bel, Taf. 59". We find no listing for this item in OCLC/Worldcat. Whether a unique item or not is difficult to say. Images available on request. Hard Cover.

Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi, 1738. Leather bound. Very Good. [ii], iii-xix, [1], [1]-328 pages. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Leather binding with gilt border decoration and marbled endpapers. General wear to the bindings. Original leather label still clean and readable. Manuscript notation in Italian opposite title page. Early inked notation on title page just above printer information washed out. Generally bright and clean internally with occasional foxing. Leather bound. Translated into English: "Rhymes of Adalsio Metoneo, Arcade shepherd, of the Marian colony

[ Illinois ]: [ not published ], 1872. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. 368 numbered pages. 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Suede/leather ledger style binding. Pages 115, 116, 215 bottom, 281 bottom, 293-309, 311 bottom, 313-320 and 329-334 excised. Pages 336-338, 346-368 blank. The balance of the pages (nearly 300) are used for accounts related to the business. Covers warped, with wear to the extremities overall. Manuscript accounts throughout, in a readable hand. Boards. Front flyleaf notations include "W Coldit ?? C & D $17 found on ???..." and below that "Bought from Joe Michaud Iowa City Nov 6, 1985. He bought it Monmount Illinois." With entries as early as 1864 and as late as 1872, this ledger details a decade of business just after the civil war. A few of the more interesting items sold in this drugstore include pills, alcohol, liniment, oil, rosin, whiskey, cough elix, chloroform, kerosene, gold leaf, wicks, spices, corn starch, ginger, camphor, lead, wax, eye salve, soap, tobacco, opii… Read More

Chicago, IL: [ not specified ], 1952. Wraps. Very Good. 130 pages. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Paper wrappers, digest size. Entire issue of Today's Science, The Science Picture Magazine, First issue, Vol 1, Number 1. On pp 98-99 is a small article, unsigned, about how a new device with a paper brain can run machine tools - a very early incarnation of computerized routing (CNC, etc). A second article talks about Lawrence, Genius of Color TV. Ads for among other things blow-up bras. Penciled "25" on front cover, small ding to front wrapper near date, inked '5' on first page. Otherwise clean. Wraps. A magazine with strong visual presentations of scientific discoveries, progress, and explanation. Scarce to find in nice condition.

[Maine]: [publisher not identified], 1856. Good. Broadsheet. Printed in two columns divided by a single line. 9 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches. Stained and folded horizontally. No printer's imprint, apparently as issued. The first paragraph states "The people of the Free States have so long yielded to the arrogant demands of the Slave Oligarchy of the South, that the latter has come to think it can carry any measure it seems fit, no matter how degrading it may be to the character of the free white men of the North." It finishes with "The New York Day Book, one of two papers in New York City that support James Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERICANS, GERMANS and IRISH, who may fall into poverty and be unable to support their families. Here are the Day Book's exact words in speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE: "Sell the parents of these children into SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass a law that whoever will take these parents and take care of them and their OFFSPRING, in sickness and in health, - clothe them,… Read More

London: Nichols and Son, 1803. Boards. Poor. iv, [1]-[604], [16 - indices part I], [2 - title part II ], [605]-1262, [22 - indices] pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. A BINDING COPY. Binding is broken just before part 2 title page, and covers are effectively detached. Ex-library copy with usual library markings, properly discarded. Individual issue titles bound in. Occasional embossed stamps throughout. All plates present in Part the First (Aldgate incorrectly noted at page 41, actually 417), (plate at 505 bound opposite p 512). All plates present in Part the Second (2 in wrong locations but present). Marbled boards and page edges. Crude taping of spine. A binding copy. Boards. The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle was a monthly magazine published from at least 1736-1850. Not only interesting for it's reporting of British history and antiquarian interests, it also records important information about events in the United States of America and other foreign states. In this case, one set of… Read More

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The American Physical Society, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 191, [1 blank], 8 pages. 7 x 10 inches. The entire issue of the Physical Review, Vol. 39 #1 (Second Series), January 1, 1932 offered. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. A nice copy with minor browning to the covers and spine panel at the extremities and some creasing to the rear wrapper. Lower corner creasing, overall minor wear. WITH 6, 135, [1 blank], 8 pages. 7 x 10 inches. The entire issue of the Physical Review, Vol. 40 #1 (Second Series), April 1, 1932 offered. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. A nice copy with minor browning to the covers and spine panel. This issue also includes an article on the further development of the cyclotron by Lawrence and Livingston. Wraps. The first article offered here announces the discovery of the deuteron, which we now know as deuterium. The second article, 15 pages long, provides far more detail on the methods used, how the… Read More

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The American Physical Society, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 191, [1 blank], 8 pages. 7 x 10 inches. The entire issue of the Physical Review, Vol. 39 #1 (Second Series) January 1, 1932 offered. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. A nice copy with minor browning to the covers at the extremities and some creasing to the rear wrapper. Upper spine corner lightly bumped. Rear wrapper and last nine leaves with closed tear at top edge. Wraps. The article offered here, "A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2" is found on page 164-5. It announces the discovery of the deuteron, which we now know as deuterium. "Deuterium (symbol D or 2H, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen. The nucleus of deuterium, called a deuteron, contains one proton and one neutron, whereas the far more common hydrogen isotope, protium, has no neutron in the nucleus. Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen."… Read More