TERRILL, Richard
science and technology
WILLIAM DAWSON
Hitchin: Paternoster & Hales, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Gray gilt-stamped boards. Very good. Mild touches of shelfwear to boards. Endpapers browned a bit, but text block bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 47pp. Eulogy for the recently-deceased schoolmaster William Dawson, for whom a prize in botany was.....
Electron Diffraction: With a Half-Tone Frontispiece and 39 Diagrams in the Text
New York: Wiley, (1946). Second edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Very good plus in like jacket. Touches of shelfwear, but clean, bright and sound overall. Scarce in jacket and in this condition. 107pp. with index.
[Original Scale Model of Proposed Moon Spacecraft WIth Lunar Excursion Module]
[Bell Telephone Laboratories], November 1962. Flat wooden model, constructed in sections with tabs and slot assembly; several parts secured in place with adhesive and metal pins. Front sides printed in different colors, with simplified schematic diagrams and abbreviations of names and functions. Printed paper labels to verso, with additional letters.....
HEALTH AND BEAUTY: As Explanation of the Laws of Growth and Exercise; Through Which a Pleasing Contour, Symmetry of Form, and Graceful Carriage of Body are Acquired and the Common Deformaties of the Spine and Chest Prevented
Philadelphia: E.A. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth. A fair copy, lacking last 3 leaves of text (pp. 249-253). Else generally very good. Cloth rubbed, front hinge tender. Chip to one corner of early page. Mild foxing internally. The second book from one.....
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good in like jacket. Jacket has small tear to rear fold, mild edgewear. Else bright and complete. Book with touched of shelfwear to extremities. Clean and sound throughout. Uncommon with jacket and in this condition. From the McGraw-Hill Electrical.....
ORIGIN OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in VG-DJ. Jacket worn at edges. Book lightly shelfworn. Clean and sound overall. 634pp. with detailed index.
THEORETICAL NUCLER PHYSICS
New York: John Wiley, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue cloth. No DJ. Very good overall with some moderate shelfwear at edges. Else clean and sound throughout. 864pp. with index.
PROJECT CONTROL STANDARDS
Princeton: Brandon/Systems Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good DJ. Mild rubbing to jacket panels, minimal edgewear. Interior bright, clean, unmarked throughout. Binding tight. 204pp. Discussion of procedures for development of project control in computer data.....
PHYSICAL AND DYNAMICAL METEOROLOGY
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's dark cloth. Tiny touches of soil to cloth. Priliminary pages toned. Ex-US Weather Bureau Station Library, with their stamp at pastedown and title page. Interior else clean. Near fine. 428 pp.
EVOLUTION AND VARIATION WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SEX
Santa Rosa: n.p., n.d. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Sunning to edges and light edgewear and foxing to wraps. Faint creasing and touches of foxing to pages. 7pp. Pagination error reverses pp. numbers 3 and 6 (numbers only; page sequence is itself correct.) Very good. Pamphlet by the horticulturalist and experimental.....
ART OF VENTRILOQUISM: How to Throw Your Voice
Detroit: Johnson Smith & Company, n.d. Wraps. Small 8vo. Saddle-stapled green wraps. Edges tattered; binding shaken; heavily soiled throughout with partial tears to several pages. One leaf fully torn out but laid in; no leaves missing. About good minus. Approximately half of this booklet contains the eight-chapter ventriloquism tutorial, including.....
THE BOYS' BOOK OF MODERN MARVELS
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1912). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's decorative cloth in original printed dust-jacket. DJ has a few closed tears, some moderate some rubbing, edgewear, toning. A bit of chipping at spine tips. Despite flaws, solidly very good example of a scarce jacket. Book near fine.....
INSECTS INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL: Their Natural History and Classification. An Elementry Text Book for the Use of Schools
San Francisco: Bancroft Co., 1888. Third edition. Cloth. 8vo. Boards. A good copy. Cloth rubbed, edges worn. Hinge just starting and a touch shaken. PO name to front pastedown. Minor soil to edges. Else a sound copy. Revised third edition. 171pp. with index. Well illustrated.
PATENT APPLIED FOR: A Century of Fantastic Inventions
London: Co-Ordination (Press and Publicity) Ltd., (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's blue binding with silver titles. Very good. Spine sunned. Edges worn. Corners bumped. Interior clean. Tight. 100 pp. Illustrated plates throughout. A history of fanciful, often ridiculous inventions.
The Hormones in Human Reproduction
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Jacket has light rubbing, a bit edgworn along top edge. Unclipped. Book has trace shelfwear at extremities. Near fine in a very good (and scarce) DJ. First edition of this important and early account. Scarce in jacket and in this.....
VALENCE
New York and London: Oxford University Press, (1961). Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's original cloth. Several minor dampstains to cloth, else clean and bright. Very good. 404 pp.
INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
Washington DC: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good. Mild toning. A bit thumbed. Else clean and sound throughout. 566pp. with bibliography and index.
THE MECHANISM OF MIND
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Good plus. Jacket darkened at spine. Edges lightly worn. Drink ring at front panel. Several small stains to fore edge. Interior clean. Tight. Popular science explanation of brain function. 275 pp.
[Manuscript Photo Catalogue of Light Fixture Manufacturer]
Waterbury, CT: The Waterbury Metal Wares Co., [ca. 1929]. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. commercial album. Limp leather wraps over metal ring binding. Printed catalogue with 75 added leaves holding 85 professional black-and-white photographs, loosely corner-mounted. Some stamped on verso with company name. With numerous additional manuscript notations and dozens.....
THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
London: Oxford University Press, 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth in original printed dust jacket. Very good plus in a good DJ. Jacket heavily toned with small chips and tears. Endpapers slightly foxed and pages mildly yellowed, but overall quite clean and sharp throughout. 300pp. Second edition of this.....
Exploring the Atmosphere
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in like jacket. Mild edgewear, rubbing to jacket. Unclipped. Former price stamp to front endpaper. Else clean and sound throughout. Scarce this condition and in jacket. 188pp. with index.
JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE - Vol. X, No. 2 (February, 1953)
Easton, PA: Interscience Publishers, 1953. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Good condition. Wraps edgeworn and thumbed. Some chipping at spine. Else sound and clean.
CLOCKWORK GARDEN: On The Mechanistic Reduction of Living Things
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacked. Minor creasing at upper edge of jacket and scratch at rear panel. Interior clean and bright. Near fine. 268 pp. Addressing the application of mechanized views to the organic world.
Ergodic Theory in Statistical Mechanics
London and New York: Interscience, (1964). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in original glassine jacket. Very good overall. Mild shelfwear. Clean and sound overall. Monographs in Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics, Vol. 7. VIII. 235pp. with index.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD: Hypothetico-Experimental Laboratory Procedure of the Physical Sciences
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1972. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good. Spine and edges sunned. Stain at spine. Interior clean and bright. Treatise on the scientific method.