Pleasures of the Telescope: An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett P - 1901

NY: J. Wiley. Poor; Covers heavily creased and water-damaged with portions of lift-off . on front cover, water stains at outer margins of text, some highlighting. . Large tear across front cover appears to have been glued with some . yellowish adhesive.. 1989. Softcover. 0471500798 . A scarce copy of this early Macintosh computer programming manual that unfortunately looks as if Homer Simpson used it as a coaster next to his nuclear plant computer keyboard. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 259 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, label on front pastedown . endpaper, annotations, number stamped on rear pastedown endpaper.. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated and abridged by Mrs. Brewer and with notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. Gold blindstamped cloth binding. Frontispiece folding world map. Discusses ways to evaluate standard quality of gold and then examines prevailing laws in various European countries, America, Egypt, Morocco, China, and Persia regarding gold, silver, and precious metalware. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained and worn, bookseller’s ticket . on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free endpaper (Braxton Bigelow, . Treadwell, Alaska) , light soiling and toning throughout.. 1909. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Illustrations, tables, diagrams. A classic mining textbook written by American President Herbert C. Hoover in the days when he was a mining engineer and instructor. “This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia University...The bulk of the material presented is the common heritage of the profession, and if any one may think there is insufficient reference to previous writers, let him endeavor to find to whom the origin o four methods should be credited...If I have contributed one sentence to the accumulated knowledge of a thousand generations of engineers, or have thrown one new ray of light on… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, stamp on front pastedown, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. xx, 194pp. Blue cloth binding. The prolific author's speculations about a future world knowledge base, akin to today's Internet and Wikipedia.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Imprimerie De Mme. Huzard. Good with no dust jacket; Dampstains to top edges of folding plates.. 1828. Hardcover. An extract from Annales des Mines, 1827-1828. Text in French. vii, 199pp, three folding engraved plates showing various geological layers in cross-sections of the Vosges Mountains region of France. Rebound in red library reinforced cloth with gilt title and "A. A. R." stamped at base of spine. "Systeme d'echange international, A. V." stamped on title page. (research Alexandre Vatemare to learn more about the French ventriloquist's system of international book dispersals). Beaumont (French for "beautiful mountain") was a significant figure in the history of geology, renowned for his theories about the forces behind the creation of mountain ranges. This is one of his earlier works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: J. Wiley. Poor; Covers heavily creased and water-damaged with portions of lift-off . on front cover, water stains at outer margins of text, some highlighting. . Large tear across front cover appears to have been glued with some . yellowish adhesive.. 1989. Softcover. 0471500798 . A scarce copy of this early Macintosh computer programming manual that unfortunately looks as if Homer Simpson used it as a coaster next to his nuclear plant computer keyboard. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 259 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, label on front pastedown . endpaper, annotations, number stamped on rear pastedown endpaper.. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated and abridged by Mrs. Brewer and with notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. Gold blindstamped cloth binding. Frontispiece folding world map. Discusses ways to evaluate standard quality of gold and then examines prevailing laws in various European countries, America, Egypt, Morocco, China, and Persia regarding gold, silver, and precious metalware. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained and worn, bookseller’s ticket . on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free endpaper (Braxton Bigelow, . Treadwell, Alaska) , light soiling and toning throughout.. 1909. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Illustrations, tables, diagrams. A classic mining textbook written by American President Herbert C. Hoover in the days when he was a mining engineer and instructor. “This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia University...The bulk of the material presented is the common heritage of the profession, and if any one may think there is insufficient reference to previous writers, let him endeavor to find to whom the origin o four methods should be credited...If I have contributed one sentence to the accumulated knowledge of a thousand generations of engineers, or have thrown one new ray of light on… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, stamp on front pastedown, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. xx, 194pp. Blue cloth binding. The prolific author's speculations about a future world knowledge base, akin to today's Internet and Wikipedia.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Imprimerie De Mme. Huzard. Good with no dust jacket; Dampstains to top edges of folding plates.. 1828. Hardcover. An extract from Annales des Mines, 1827-1828. Text in French. vii, 199pp, three folding engraved plates showing various geological layers in cross-sections of the Vosges Mountains region of France. Rebound in red library reinforced cloth with gilt title and "A. A. R." stamped at base of spine. "Systeme d'echange international, A. V." stamped on title page. (research Alexandre Vatemare to learn more about the French ventriloquist's system of international book dispersals). Beaumont (French for "beautiful mountain") was a significant figure in the history of geology, renowned for his theories about the forces behind the creation of mountain ranges. This is one of his earlier works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .