Search Results: Titles starting with P from Kuenzig Books

New York, N.Y.: Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1969. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Later printing. xi, 303, [1] pages. 8vo. Light blue cloth with silver spine titles. Bumped at base of spine, otherwise a new copy. Cloth. A reprint of the original work from 1929.

Massachusetts: Aaron Palmer, 1845. Boards. Good. A circular slide rule. 10 15/16 x 11 inches x 3/8 inch thick constructed of two layers of book board. The upper board with a cutout volvelle in a circular form attached to the rear book board with a metal rivet. Upper board with affixed lithograph to both inner volvelle and outer remainder, showing scales, decorative elements, and imprint information. 1/4 inch gilded leather trim affixed to the edges, and holding the pair of boards together (also likely glued in the area without the volvelle). The rear board also covered with a lithographed sheet, this time a set of instructions and covering most of the leather edge wrapper. Front and rear lithographs lightly lacquered. Scuffed and with uniform minor wear. Leather trim is worn with some loss. The recessed metal 'button' insert usually present in the volvelle for turning is lacking, leaving a 5/16 inch blank cutout which serves the same purpose. The volvelle is warped away from the plane of the base… Read More

London: J. Cox, 1830. First Edition. Wrappers. Good. First Edition. 143, [1] pages. Later brown card covers.with hand written label on front panel. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Original blue/green printed wrappers bound in. Spine panel cracked and showing minor loss to outer cover as well as original wrappers underneath. Clean internally, noting previous owner's name penned at top of title page. Wrappers. OCLC notes: "Papers relating to a charge of corruption against Sir Edward Colebrooke, Resident of Delhie, brought by his assistant, Mr. Trevelyan." Scarce, with only three copies in OCLC/Worldcat as of this listing.

London: Novello, Ewer and Co, 1900. Cloth. Very Good. [2], v, 162, [2 ads] pages. 8vo. Publisher's original black pebbled cloth (blank). Front endpaper lacking. Paper label of conductor B.J. Lang on front cover and title page. All edges gilt. Cloth. Conductor B.J. Lang's copy. He conducted this work at The Cecilia in Boston March 31, 1892 (copy of program laid in). Manuscript notations sporatically throughout, presumably in his hand. "Ever since its founding in 1876, The Boston Cecilia has enjoyed a history remarkable for its many fine conductors. The great B.J. Lang in his 33 years of leadership established a pattern of introducing new works to Boston audiences alongside standard repertoire. Many of those unknown pieces joined the canon—the Bach Mass in B Minor and Brahms Requiem, to name but two. Among his novel ideas and new pieces now forgotten, Lang had the audacity to program Bach for a Victorian audience whose taste, ironically, found "antique" music decidedly old-fashioned. The Cecilia, as… Read More

London: Novello, Ewer and Co, 1900. Cloth. Near Fine. [2], v, 162, [2 ads] pages. 8vo. Publisher's original pebbled cloth with copper/gilt title on front cover (spine blank). Signature of Julia Houston West and her address on front pastedown. Stamp of Carl Profer on title page and note written at top "J.H.W. sang the Part of the Piri - first time given in Boston by the Parker Club at Chickering Hall". Otherwise clean internally. Binding sound. Cloth. The copy of Julia Houston West, called by the The New England Magazine, Volume 32 Boston's greatest oratorio singer. The Parker Club was an amateur vocalist association established by James Cutler Dunn Parker in 1864. Parker was also the organist for the Boston Handel and Haydn Society (hymntime dot com). A brochure for the Handel and Haydn Society season of 1898/99 for the Paradise and the Peri laid in (although not apparently Julia West's performance).

New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Cloth. Good. [i]-iv, [iii]-iv, [5]-179 pages. Blue cloth. 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Ex-library Hartford Medical Society with their perforated stamp on the title page. A sound reading copy, lightly browned throughout. Cloth. Several editions were published starting in 1871.

Elizabeth, New Jersey: American Type Founders, [no date stated]. Wraps. Fair. 68 pages. Oblong 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publisher's original orange printed paper covers with stapled spine covered with black cloth. Front cover coming detached. A seriously worn and well used copy, soiled, stained, but complete. A note on the front panel indicates: "Note - many of Parts are interchangeable on #1 Kelly Press - be sure to specify parts when ordering for #1 Kelly Press and Give Serial Number". Also stamped "American Type Founders Sales Corporation" with address in Cincinnati Ohio. Wraps. Possibly printed in 1940 with "3M 10 40 Printed in USA" code on rear wrapper. Scarce, with only a few examples in OCLC. We buy these lists and offer them for sale so that those trying to maintain these old pieces of equipment have a better chance of success. "The Kelly, named after it's designer, William Kelly, is claimed to be the first flatbed cylinder machine designed with an integrated sheet feeder. Kelly, born in Kansas… Read More

Boston, [Massachusetts] and Cleveland, Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett Proctor & Worthington, 1854. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [12], [13]-111,[1-blank] pages. 8vo. Publisher's original cream blind stamped cloth boards with gilt spine decorations and gilt embossed decorations front and rear. All edges gilt. Covers now soiled with spine sunned, corners bumped and extremities lightly worn. Gift inscription on front flyleaf: "Mr & Mrs. ? Green. San Francisco, Cal. From their affectionate friends E. & E. B. Dowde? Sherborn, Mass Jan 1855 God Bless You". The book was published with a printed Marriage Certificate with blanks that could be filled in. This one has been filled out certifying that Mr. Albert Green and Miss Mary Pratt were united in Marriage "by me, according to the Laws of the State of California at San Francisco March 6th, 1855, and signed Wm. C. Pond." Cloth. "Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, Boston."--verso of title page.… Read More

Athol, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: North Village Pub Co / Roger K. Smith, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. [6], 396 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. A special publisher's leather binding with gold printing and marbled endpapers (the regular binding was red cloth). Dust jacket bright and clean. One of an unknown number of Special Copies, this one for tool dealer and collector Phil Stanley, with special inserted number page and INSCRIBED to Phil BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page: "To Phil, with All Best Wishes from the author + much appreciation for your help with the Blanchin (?) Story. Roger K. Smith." Cloth. The second in the series, covering mostly the years1927-1967 (Volume I covered 1827-1927) A standard reference (the second in the series) by Smith, essential for anyone collecting or studying this area. PROVENANCE: The reference Library of tool collector and dealer Phil Stanley.

Munchen: J. F. Lehmanns, 1922. Boards. Good. An interesting illustrated medical book. With 92 full page photogravures of internal organs and 133 numbered pages. Original paper covered boards, worn at the edges. Thin cloth spine nearly perished with pieces missing at base of the spine. Otherwise sound, a usable copy. Boards.

Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society for the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College, 1882. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. William H. Tipton. William H. Tipton. First Edition. x, 475 pages. Plus 17 albumen photographs by Tipton, at least some in a stereoview format. Publisher's blue cloth with black ruling. Minor wear to the cloth and extremities. Previous owner name on front flyleaf. Albumen photographs have nice tonality. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Minor silverfish damage to the covers, color-toned to match the binding. Slight fading to the spine panel. Cloth. Published for the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College. "William H. Tipton (August 5, 1850 - September 20, 1929) was a noted American photographer of the second half of the 19th century, most noted for his extensive early photography of the Gettysburg Battlefield and the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Tipton was born in Gettysburg. He studied photography as the apprentice of Charles and Isaac Tyson, who… Read More

Oslo: J W. Cappelens Forlag, 1949. First Edition. Boards. Good/Good. First Edition. 182, [1] pages. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Thick pressboard covers with embossed title and author name. Original printed dust jacket. Dj is worn, browned at spine, and with soiling. Text in Norwegian (?). Untrimmed. Boards. The first edition of a biography that describes the "unrevised, impassioned diary of an Oslo underground leader, written while imprisoned at Mollergt 19 in Oslo in 1944. Transferred to Germany, he wend down with the Westphalen. This daily record of his thoughts and the prison routine had been pricked on rolls of toilet paper and blown through a ventilator under his cell. It falls into two distinct parts - the first, covering his 78 days in solitary confinement, revelas a struggle against despair and insanity ... the second covers the remainder of his imprisonment, the semi-starved prisoners' preoccupation with food, super-sensitivity towards his cellmates. A moving human document but dated." (kirkus review).

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1922. Second Edition. Boards. Good. Second Edition. 304 pages plus ads. Brown paper covered boards. Bookplate of Dr. Siegwart Hermann on front pastedown with his stamp at head of title page. Also sticker of Prof. Dr. phil. Kolkwitz next to his name on title page. A few pages with corner creases. Small tear to spine panel lower portion and number inked on spine. Still a sound copy. Text in German. Mit 12 zum Teil farbigen und 153 Abbildungen im Text. (With 12 partly colored and 153 illustrations in the text.). Boards. "Kolkwitz is known for work with Maximilian Marsson (1845-1909) in the development of the "saprobic system" as a biological determination of water quality and levels of organic waste (pollution) in rivers and streams. Their methodology was a non-chemical analysis that was based on patterns of abundance and distribution of various biological species. They examined the biological patterns of approximately 800 species of water plants and invertebrates in their… Read More

London: John Churchill, 1856. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. viii, 583 pages. 8vo. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Wear overall to the binding, fundamentally sound. Some issues have stamp of old hospital library. Boards. Contains 12 issues of the Journal and Transactions. Issues include Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society, plus extracts and original articles of interest to the membership. Ethics issues, criminal poisoning, history of fats, notes on materia medica at the Paris exposition, experiments with deriving ether, electrical apparatus, etc etc appear as topics in a quick flip through the pages. A fascinating read with many pointers to other period sources.

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1841. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. [2], [459]-962, [2] pages. Period marbled paper covered boards with red paper spine label (chipped). Zwölfter Jahrgang, zweiter Band, von No. 29 bis No. 59. Marbling is chipping at the edges. A periodical, including issues No 29 (Jul 8, 1841) through No 59 (Dec 25, 1841). Primarily chemistry and pharmaceuticals, started in 1830 as an abstracts journal, searching for an publishing important facts of the time from various journals. It's name was changed to include Chemistry in 1840. Boards.

London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1756. First Edition. Leather bound. Very Good. First Edition. [2], [799]-1393, [17-indices] pages. 4to. New calf spine with labels over original boards. New endpapers. With 48 folding copper plates. The usuall minor offsetting on the plates, otherwise bright and clean internally. A sound copy. Leather bound. "In 1662, the newly formed 'Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge' was granted a charter to publish by King Charles II and on 6 March 1665, the first issue of Philosophical Transactions was published under the visionary editorship of Henry Oldenburg, who was also the Secretary of the Society. The first volumes of what was the world's first scientific journal were very different from today's journal, but in essence it served the same function; namely to inform the Fellows of the Society and other interested readers of the latest scientific discoveries. As such, Philosophical Transactions established the important principles of… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1956. Later printing. Wraps. Very Good. Later printing. [1]-8 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Self-wrappers. "MONOGRAPH B-1611 | Reissued May, 1956" upper right. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. The staples are rusty and affect the paper. Unlike many Bell System Monographs, this re-issue was apparently not issued with the characteristic blue/grey wrappers. Wraps. The Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Vol 36, pp. 1324-1331, November 1948 first published this paper. There is no known IRE offprint for this paper. Hence, the first printing of the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph (#B-1611, 1948) constitutes the first separate edition. This Bell Monograph was also later reprinted, as here, in May 1956. While the foundations for Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) were laid many years before, Shannon, Oliver, and Pierce were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for its invention. The US Patent Office… Read More

London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Cloth. Very Good. xxiv, 390, [2] pages plus 14 engraved plates. 8vo. Brown library buckram with library label on spine. Library bookplate and deaccession stamp on front endpapers (US Patent Office surplus) otherwise clean internally (noting minor foxing throughout). Although marked Volume I, this was the only volume published under this title. Cloth. Contains various papers including Experiments on Gunpowder, Experiments made with Cannon and some attempts to improve Field Artillery, Experiments on Production of Air from Water, Intensities of Light emitted by Luminous Bodies, Experiments on Coloured Shadows, Conjectures respecting the Principles of the Harmony of Colours, Enquiry concerning Chemical Properties attributed to Light, etc. Thompson was well known for his technological innovation, and he studied gunpowder and illumination throughout his life. (DSB) In 1798 the same publisher issued a collection of Rumford's works called "Essays Political… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. xv, [2], 18-204 pp + 20 heliotype plates (including frontis) extra to the pagination with tissue guards. 8vo. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth with beveled edges. Stamp of "Chas. F. Prentice 201 Singer Building 149 Broadway, N.Y." on front flyleaf. Discoloration to the foreedges of the binding (sun, smoke, or damp). Corners, head/tail of spine and edges worn. Hinges cracked but still sound (some old glue repairs). Internally clean and bright with clean plates - albeit a well read copy. Cloth. Author Sternberg is well known to medical and microscopy collectors both for his work as a bacteriologist and microscopist. "Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg (June 8, 1838 - November 3, 1915) was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered… Read More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. VIII, 228 pages. 8vo. Brown buckram binding. Ex-library US Patent Office (withdrawn). A sound working copy, noting the usual library markings. Text in German. Cloth. Band IX of the Handbuch der Agewandten Physikalischen Chemie [Handbook of Applied Physical Chemistry].