Berkeley: Howell-North, 1962. First edition; 8vo; pp. xv, [1], 282; pictorial endpapers, illustrations throughout; ex-library else very good in slightly soiled beige cloth, stamped in black on upper cover and spine. More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1938. First edition. 8vo, pp. xii, 356; photograph frontispiece, several illustrations and diagrams throughout; original blue cloth stamped in silver on the front cover and spine; very good with a slightly skewed spine and a faint dampstain on the front free endpaper; lacks the..... More

New York: Sleight & Van Norden, print, 1833. 8vo, pp. 38; folding table in the pagination; original blue printed wrappers; small chip out of the lower corner of the front wrapper (no loss of letterpress); all else very good. Includes the report of the committee appointed by a resolution of..... More

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, [1955]. First Swedish edition printed in a limited but unspecified number (this is copy no. 155), signed by Lindbergh, 8vo, pp. [8], 483, [1], [10]; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates, 7 pages of maps and graphs at the back; fine..... More

Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, xiv & [178]pp., numerous text illus.; upper front hinge torn, else a fine, tight copy in a dust jacket. A study of the business-leader founder of "one of the most important street railway companies in the U.S." by his grandson. Laid in the..... More

New York: W. J. Johnston, 1888. Second edition, enlarged, 4to, pp. x, 282 (pagination skipping 85-88); over 300 text illustrations, 1 folding plate; original brown cloth, gilt title on spine and cover; spine toned and rubbed, contemporary bookplates on pastedown of the Franklin Union Foundation and S. B. Whiting, faint..... More

Boston: James Means, (1909). 8vo, pp. [8]; original green printed wrappers (slight fading at extremities); fine copy. Letters patent granted May 25, 1909 for a signaling apparatus and 3 types of launching apparatus. More

Dublin: Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, n.d., [ca. 1870s]. Unaccomplished pro-forma folio broadside (approx. 13¾" x 8¾") on gray paper; fine. Pro-forma contract for the purchase of rails and fish plates, with blanks left for tons of rails, date, terms, signature, and date. "To be delivered free on any..... More

Paris: Malet-Bachelier, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40; three folding plates depicting a transit system via air balloon; original printed paper wrappers; spine largely perished, gatherings resewn and wrappers neatly reattached, covers lightly soiled, one or two pages with damp in the margins; good or better. A treatise on the..... More

Washington: G.P.O., 1863. Large 8vo, pp. 363, [3]; 10 lithograph plates (most with hand coloring), plus 4 large folding maps; recent utilitarian library cloth, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; text block bound tight; clean inside. Early ownership signature of Mr. Thomson Mason, Baltimore, Nov. 1, 1863. See Howes M-884 showing..... More

Berlin: Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm, [c. 1925]. Small 4to, pp. vi, 147, [1]; frontispiece portrait and 120 text illustrations, mostly of airships in production and in flight; text in German; original cloth detailed in black and red; owner's stamp on title page, near fine. A history of airship production in Germany..... More

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1941. Oblong 4to, pp. [28]; pictorial endpapers, color illustrations throughout of navy ships with silhouettes and diagrams below; illustrated paper covered boards; edges lightly rubbed, else fine. More

Philadelphia: printed by Joseph James: Chestnut Street, 1788 [but actually 1849]. 8vo, pp. [3], 1014-1038 [i.e. 28 pages]; engraved frontispiece; removed from binding; last leaf loose but present; all else very good. Originally published with title: A Plan Wherein the Power of Steam is Fully Shewn, and here extracted from..... More