![Item #18909 Airship Facts and Meterological [sic] Possibilities, as Verified by Captain Thomas S....](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18909.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551561524)
New York: Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, [ca. 1906]. First edition. Original pictorial pink wrappers, scant 6 x 3.25 inches, 16 pages. “I have no secrets, but am anxious to promote and give to the world my knowledge of aeronautics and airshipping. I manufacture and have for sale balloons and airships..... More
Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1751. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary marbled calf, gilt stamped spine, red morocco label, gilt lettering, xii, 144 pages. 4 folding plates, one engraved headpiece. First published in 1749 and then in a second edition in 1751, this third edition might well marks the first “handy” guide..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original pebbled maroon cloth over flexible heavy card-stock wrappers, gilt lettering, vii, [1], 51, [1], 32 pages. Color frontispiece, illus. Inserted folding table. “The subject being one which concerns the general public as well as its scientific and technical members, the..... More
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original pink linen spine, drab boards, printed paper label, x, 196 pages, untrimmed. An important early American horticultural manual from this prominent early American professional nursery family and proprietors of the first commercial American nursery. Early institutional bookplate partially removed..... More
![Item #19220 Photoradio: What it is and How it Serves [wrapper title; caption title:] The...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[New York? n. p., ca. 1927]. First edition. Original printed orange wrappers, 9.5 x 6 inches, wire stitched, 8 pages. Illus. An early example of transmission of visual information over networks, a promotional pamphlet from RCA on the wireless transmission of images as a boon to business, banking, news, and..... More
