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I found this fantastic cross-section of the Harper & Brothers publishing house in Jacob Abbott's The Harper Establishment, or, How the Story Books are Made, published of course and thankfully by ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

Life going on underground has always been very interesting to me--particularly so when a good tech story is accompanied by great art. This is certainly the case with the cover story for the September ...

The next issue is another major publication, seeing the famous “Atomic Energy for Military Purposes” published in October 1945. This is the report that caused great anxiety in the debate over its ...

Thomas Cooper, a merry, upper-educated intellectual called “a learned and talented mapcap” by none other than John Adams, wrote from his secure chair South Carolina College a translation of a rather ...

ITEM: engraving from Rees' Cyclopedia, 1814. "Table of the Compass of Voices and Instruments, Shewing the Place Each Occupies in the Scale". 11x8 inches. Good condition. $75 This engraved plate from ...

[George Fred Keck] Green’s Ready-Built Homes Present the Solar Home,The Solar Home. 1944, copyright: Green's Ready-Built Homes, Rockford, Illinois. 12pp. 11.5x8 ...

Marchione di Coppo Stefani was born in Florence in 1336. He wrote his Florentine Chronicle in the late 1370s and early 1380s. [Stefani, Marchione di Coppo.Cronaca fiorentina. Rerum Italicarum ...

ITEM (1): "Launcing an Aeroplane..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 13x10 inches. Fine. $45 ITEM (2): "The Clapham Junction..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 10x13 inches. Fine. $45 Full descriptions ...