Rare / Antiquarian Book List - By Category
Engineering
Index
5261
Photoelastic Analysis - A W Hendry
Price : £7,5
Publisher : Oxford: Pergamon Press
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp155. 8vo. Illustrated cloth binding. BW illustrations, photographs.
Add to Basket
1010
Die Design Handbook - ASTE National Book Committee
Price : £10.00
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Book Co Inc, 1955
Published : 1955
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
G+. Blue cloth, gilt titling. 1st Edn 3rd printing. One in a series of handbooks produced by the American Society of Tool Engineers of Detroit, Michigan.
Add to Basket
5211
100 Years of Model Engineering - Ball, Eric C.
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Norwich: The Society of Model & Experimental Engineers
Published : 1998
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
Limited edition, no. 104 of 200 copies. Signed by author Eric C. Ball on a special limited edition book plate which is pasted to the ffe. Book in near fine condition in a near fine dustjacket, with minimal wear and rubbing. Internally very clean, no marks or inscriptions, printed on coated paper. Illustrated throughout. 128 pages.
Add to Basket
2336
Diecasting Die Design - Barton, H. K. and L. C.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Machinery Publishing Co.
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Hard cover is worn and marked, with damaged spine and remnants of cellotape repair. However, binding and pages are tight and clean. 158pp with b&w diagrams and photographs. Previous owner's name on preliminary page. A good reference copy.
Add to Basket
4630
Fouling Notebook - Bott, Reg
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Institution of Chemical Engineers
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in laminated boards, with minor wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's name to front pastedown, no other marks or inscriptions. Illustrated with figures and tables. 136 pages.
Add to Basket
4830
Steamship Coefficients, Speeds, and Powers (Steam Ship) - Charles F A Fyfe
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London: Spon
Published : 1907
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp280 + 31 plates. Black cloth semi-soft cover with gilt lettering. Ends of spine worn (top worn badly). Front endpapers are advertisements. Bookseller's plate inside front cover.
Add to Basket
6868
Properties of Materials - Chong, C. V. Y.
Price : £5.00
Publisher : M & E Handbooks
Published : 1981
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp318. Octavo. Useful for the student.
Add to Basket
2289
Principles of Analytical Electron Microscopy - David Joy, Alton Romig and Joseph Goldstein
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,US
Published : 2001
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
448 Pages including index. Glossy board cover. (No DJ as issued?). Top/bottom of spine show wear. For three years I walked into the University of Birmingham campus past the High Voltage Electron Microscope Building. With this volume as my guide I could have gone inside and set to work.
Add to Basket
6755
Gears For Small Mechanisms - Davis, W O
Price : £30.00
Publisher : N.A.G. Press
Published : 1970
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp344. Yellow cloth binding with giit lettering in DW. This is the second completely revised edition (orignally published 1957). The previous owner has copied neatly the table of Form Cutters For Small Gears, from the previous edition, on the last page.
Add to Basket
2757
Osbourne Reynolds and Engineering Science Today - Eds. McDowell and Jackson
Price : £25.00
Publisher : MUP
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp263. Note on fep says this was reviewed in Annals of Science 1971. The papers collected marked Reynolds' centenary.
Add to Basket
5229
Former Clock and Watchmakers and their Work - F J Britten
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: E & F N Spon
Published : 1894
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp397. Maroon cloth binding with black impression of clock to front and gilt lettering to spine. Grubby. Endpapers similarly grubby. "Compliments of Robbins & Appleton" stamped on first title page. Cracking of rear endpapers at hinge, 3-4 inches. Text inside clean and tight. BW illustrations.
Add to Basket
6691
Inventors and Engineers of Caithness - Gunn, Robert P.
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Whittles Publishing
Published : 1998
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Small ink mark to foredge of a couple of pages, otherwise very clean internally. Illustrated. 77 pages.
Add to Basket
5872
William Jessop, Engineer - Hadfield, Charles; Skempton, S.
Price : £28.00
Publisher : David and Charles
Published : 1979
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp315. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in illustrated DW. Maps, BW plates.
Add to Basket
6694
Rolling Bearing Analysis - Harris, Tedric A.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : New York: John Wiley & Sons
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition, in a good jacket which has some soiling, and wear to edges. Internally clean. 481 pages.
Add to Basket
4245
Electric-Power Users' Handbook - Hunter-Brown, P.
Price : £18.00
Publisher : London: Hodder and Stoughton
Published : 1907
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp209. Large 12mo. Blue cloth binding with black lettering to front and gilt lettering to spine. Cloth rubbed about edges. BW photographs and linear diagrams. Foxing to endpapers, internally tight and clean.
Add to Basket
5905
Power Station Instrumentation - Jervis, Max W.
Price : £55.00
Publisher : London: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Heavy book in very good condition in laminated boards, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. This book may incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
Add to Basket
6508
Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors - Jones, Franklin D.
Price : £85.00
Publisher : New York: Industrial Press
Published : 1987
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
pp536, 538, 536, 486. Large octavo. Four volumes reprinting the classic 1930 original, all as new. Text, diagrams throughout. Please enquire for postage costs as this is a heavy item.
Add to Basket
6103
Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies - Mansell, Robin, Avgerou, Quah and Silverstone
Price : £70.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Published : 2007
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
Jacket : J
A mint hardback copy in mint dustjacket. Heavy, but no extra postal charges within the UK - may cost more to fly or float overseas.
Add to Basket
2368
Insulating Varnishes in Electrotechnics - Matthis, Alfred R.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : John Heywood
Published : 1922
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Original red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, which is faded. Boards are slightly rubbed and marked. Gilt lettering to front right corner: "With the Compliments of Attwater & Sons" + address. Previous owners name inside boards, dated 1922. 283pp+ adverts, with b&w illustrations, tables and figures. A good copy.
Add to Basket
4341
Marine Boiler Development During the Past Fifty Years - McPherson, T
Price : £15.00
Publisher : North East Coast Institution of Engineering and Shipbuilding
Published : 1935
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp64. Large 8vo. Blue board cover with black lettering. This was a talk given in 1935 to record historic events since the development of the "cylindrical return-tube" in 1885. Illustrated with tables and diagrams. Pencilled inscription inside front cover, appears to be title details of anothe book about marine steam engines.
Add to Basket
7190
The Principles & Practice of Lubrication - Nash, Alred W & A R bowen
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Chapman & Hall
Published : 1937
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good dust-jacket, with wear and rubbing, and some marking/soiling. Closed edge tears. Internally clean, author's inscription on front endpaper, binding tight. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 345 pages.
Add to Basket
5212
Holloways of Millbank - Rolt, L T C
Price : £28.00
Publisher : London: Hollway Brothers/Newman Neame
Published : 1958
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp56 of text and 56 BW plates, 6 colour plates. Quarto. Grey flecked cloth binding with maroon lettering to front and (nearly erased) spine. A record of Holloway Brothers' first seventy-five years with photographs of their projects, including the Runymede RAF Memorial, Baghdad Railway Station, and the D-Day Mulberry Harbours. Search our stock for the larger 1954 volume.
Add to Basket
5920
Rotol Hydraulic Variable Pitch Airscrews Series RX5 and RXF5 Governor Units and Accessories - ROTOL
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Gloucester: ROTOL Airscrews
Published : 1940
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
(xii), 136+ pages, many BW plates, fold out diagrams. Black stiff cover. Bound in landscape. Better quality than similar engineering reference works that come our way: contents near-Fine. A limited edition (perhaps for war time security measures): this was copy R3/63, and issued to Dr A B Miller.
Add to Basket
6316
The Cane Sugar factory A Catechism of Cane Sugar Manufacture for the Use of Beginners - Scard, Frederic I, F.I.C.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: The West India Committee
Published : 1913
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
A small hardback volume, (viii) + 118 pages + folding table + xxvi pages of adverts, all but the fist index leaf of this latter section on art paper with spectacular monotone lithographs of machinery etc. Bound in grey-brown board lettered in black. Being card, the joints of the spine are fraying a bit, butr the hinges inside are sound and there are no significant other faults, apart from some annotations in pencil. A serious book quaintly but effectively presented as questions and answers.
Add to Basket
6312
Cement, Concrete and Bricks - Searle, Alfred B.
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Constable & Company
Published : 1913
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. internally clean, npo marks or inscriptions, printed on coated paper, binding tight. Illustrated. 412 pages.
Add to Basket
6674
Steam and Gas Turbines witha Supplement on the Prospects of the Thermal Prime Mover - Stodola, Dr. A and Dr. Louis C. Loewenstein (translator)
Price : £60.00
Publisher : New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Published : 1927
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Two volume set in very good condition,with some wear and rubbing. From the Rolls-Royce Library at Littleover, with a couple of small stamps to the endpapers, no other library markings. Internally clean, the bindings are tight. xviii + 1-763 pages; and 764-1356 pages, including index. Profusely illustrated throughout with diagrams, tables, etc., folding diagrams in rear pocket of volume two. This is a heavy set so postage will be extra, please enquire for rates.
Add to Basket
2210
Principles of Vacuum Forming - Thiel, Alfons
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Iliffe Books
Published : 1965
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket, faded to spine and edges. 71pp, including many illustrations & b&w photo plates. A mint copy.
Add to Basket
6315
Hydrostatic Power Transmission - THoma, Jean U.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Mordeen, Surrey: Trade and Technical Press
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
A very good copy, 186 pages plus one two-sided leaf of halftone plates, bound in red "plasticated cloth", bold gilt titling.
Add to Basket
2539
Annals of Philosophy (Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics) Vol. VIII July to December 1816 - Thomas Thomson
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy
Published : 1816
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
pp479. Roughcut pages showing age. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover. Board cover and spine showing age. Previous owner has written on fep in pencil: "A dozen or more articles relating to the safety lamp - from the same year (1816) as its introduction into pits by Sir Humphrey Davy. Nine plates, one handcoloured, one folding."
Add to Basket
5231
Advanced Cotton Spinning Volume III (Third Revised and Enlarged Edition) - Thomas Thornley
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Scott, Greenwood
Published : 1923
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp776. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to front and spine. Spine worn at edges, corners bumped. Endpapers browning. PO inscription (probably original) of address in Bombay. BW illustrations. This is volume III only. Please check postage due to weight.
Add to Basket
4470
Boilers, Marine and Land: Their Construction and Strength - Traill, Thomas W.
Price : £18.00
Publisher : London: Charles Griffin
Published : 1920
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original coated cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Lean to spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 583 pages.
Add to Basket
723
VDMA Verein Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten (German machinery manufacturers association) and its members 1927 - VDMA
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Berlin NW 7: VDI-Verlag, 1927
Published : 1927
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Die (?) Titel ist in deutsch gedruckt aber andereweise ist dieses Buch in englisch gescrieben. Also soll Ich sofort into English change. A large, handsomely bound hardback volume, (iv)+772 pages (seite)m but a final leaf may have been torn out, but the long alphabetical list of products of VDMA products, appears complete.Mehr als 400 seiter hadeln sich uber die einzelnen Hergestelltern und seiner Produkten, including many famous firms, each with photographs of works and products A very good copy. I tried my hand at translating technical German into english seite viele Jahre, so I have Mitgefuhl with those who ubersetzed this Band and forgive their Fehlers.Ick node hilp wit den job of neumaking DOGGER ,die spreak dat alle Nordeurope menn verstanden kan. (DOGGER wer die Spreak der forlorne menn von de Dogger Bank, lang uverflowtet von de Nordsea.) Dave Mitchell, Scarthin Books.
Add to Basket
2576
Engineering Modeling and Design - William Chapman, A Terry Bahill, A Wayne Wymore
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Florida, Boca Raton: CRC Press
Published : 1992
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
pp371. No DJ as issued. An introduction to modelling and design based on the use of case studies.
Add to Basket
4560
Steel Designers' Manual: 3rd Edition, completely revised with twelve new chapters - [British Steel Producers' Conference in conjunction with the British Iron and Steel Federation]
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Crosby Lockwood
Published : 1966
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp1086. Blue cloth cover. DW in plastic cover is grubby (may be outside of plastic). PO stamp on FEP and title page, inscribed on inside rear cover. Light staining to endpapers.
Add to Basket
2193
Nondestructive Testing: Ultrasonic (in 3 volumes) - [None]
Price : £30.00
Publisher : General Dynamics
Published : 1981
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Second edition, 3 volumes in yellow soft covers with black lettering to front and spine, 10" x 7". Volume I - Basic Principles (slight creasing to top edge of pages), Volume II - Equipment (fading to spine), Volume III - Applications. Tight and clean copies. Please check postage due to weight.
Add to Basket
3393
Kingston Power Station, opened by Their Majesties: two official souvenir books/brochures - [None]
Price : £45.00
Publisher : British Electricity Authority
Published : 1948
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Two items: Ringbound, foolscap brochure with fold out diagrams and BW plates, including HM the King and HM The Queen. pp70 including all plates. Final colour plate of the power station beside the Thames. Gold lettering on cover. Wrapped in glascene jacket. Secondly, stapled, card-covered brochure, in which plates follow pages, although the numbering is as they were interleaved. Fascinating record of how power production was treated and memorialized.
Add to Basket
3706
Pneumatic Technical Data (2 volumes Volume I and Volume II) - [None]
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Morden: Trade and Technical Press
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
2 HB volumes extracted from the "Pneumatic Handbook" 2nd ed, keeping original pagination. Volume 1= pp v + pp329-439, volume 2 = pp v + pp391-519. Volume I green cloth binding, slight staining, interior good, Volume 2, burgundy cloth binding slight wear. Quarto volumes, may incur extra postage.
Add to Basket
3707
Hydraulic Technical Data Volume II - [None]
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Modern: Trade and Technical Press
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Red cloth binding, fading heavily front bottom. Data extracted from Section 2 of the "Hydraulic Handbook" pp521-66, plus additional tables, pp i - xxvi. This volume can stand on its own, as volume I was published separately.
Add to Basket
3922
Riley Mark IV, Plus and Plus Ultra Instruction Book - [None]
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Coventry: Riley
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Soft covered (folder binding) manual with foldout diagrams. One has been hand coloured for emphasis. Neatly written notes on back of last photograph. This manual was published to deal with the "Plus Ultra" and the two earlier series.
Add to Basket
5236
Catalogue of Cotton Spinning and Weaving Machinery with Calculations &c (12th Edition) - [None]
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Oldham: Platt Brothers
Published : 1926
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp359. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to front (some small spotting to front cover). BW plates. Diagrams. Line drawings. Tucked in are a 2 documents from the shop floor, one an absence report dated 1931. The names on the forms are Indian, so this book may have been to Bombay along with some of our other cotton and spinning books (search our stock).
Add to Basket
6866
Antenna File - [None]
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Radio Society of Great Britain
Published : 2001
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp287. Folio. Corners bumped, which is a pity as this book otherwise looks near-new. Articles reprinted from the RSGB magazine.
Add to Basket
6874
Programmed Learning: Plane Geometry Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - [None]
Price : £5.00
Publisher : Training Services Agency
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
A set of six pocket sized guides introducing the concepts of plane geometry. Designed for the individual learner, working at their own pace, each question has its answer printed on the reverse page. These were probably aimed at men aiming at becoming master builders, they are an interesting example of the sixties' precursor's to today's computerized learning, and may be of research interest to anyone studying theories of education. A small reference number has been written neatly on the covers.
Add to Basket
4513
Machine Tools Catalogue of Scottish Machine Tool Corporation Ltd - [None]
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Glasgow: Scottish Machine Tools
Published : 1950
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
No date, but circa 1950. In seven sections A-G, all paginated separately, running to over 500 pages, and dealing with planing machines, lathes, boring & milling machines, special machines, etc. Cloth covered boards in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and a little marking. Internally clean, printed on coated paper, binding is tight. Profusely illustrated throughout. Heavy book which will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
Add to Basket
5191
Holloway Brothers (London) Limited - a photographic record and catalogue - [None]
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Holloway Brothers
Published : 1954
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp95. Foolscape landscape. Maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering. A photographic catalogue issued by the company (including Air Forces Memorial at Runymede, several Public Schools and much railway work in Iraq) followed by list of contracts and contractors in last pages. Search our stock for LTC Rolt's Holloways of Millbank.
Add to Basket
Index
