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Five Spectroheliograph Photographs of the Sun by [Evershed, John]

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Title: Five Spectroheliograph Photographs of the Sun
Author: [Evershed, John]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: 1920. A group of 5 spectroheliograph silver gelatin prints of the sun. Royal Observatory, Greenwich and Kodaikanal, India, 1906-1920. Printed c1920, mailed 1946. 2 prints approximately 7 ½" x 6", 3 prints approximately 6 1/2" x 5 ¾". All prints with manuscript captions on verso (in an unknown hand), 3 prints state that the photos were taken by J. Evershed, the others credited to the Royal Observatory. Some general edgewear, toning, prints lightly curled. Original envelope with a return address of the General Electric address in New York. The spectroheliograph is an instrument designed to photograph the sun in a single, precisely isolated wavelength of light, revealing solar features that are entirely invisible in broadband white-light photography. Invented independently by George Ellery Hale and Henri Deslandres in 1890–1891, it works by combining a spectroscope (which disperses sunlight into its component wavelengths) with a photographic apparatus arranged so that only a narrow band of the resulting spectrum falls on the photographic plate. By selecting the wavelength corresponding to a specific atomic transition, typically the hydrogen-alpha line at 656 nanometers or the calcium H and K lines, the instrument renders visible the chromosphere, the layer of the solar atmosphere lying above the photosphere, along with its associated structures: prominences, filaments, plages, and the magnetic network surrounding sunspot groups. A mechanical scanning mechanism moves both the entrance slit and the photographic plate in tandem across the solar disk, building up a complete image one narrow strip at a time. The result is a photograph of the sun as it exists at a single atmospheric depth defined by the chosen wavelength; a cross-section through the solar atmosphere unavailable by any other means, and the primary tool by which early twentieth-century solar physicists mapped the relationship between chromospheric structure and the magnetic activity cycles that govern solar behavior. John Evershed (1864-1956) was an English astronomer who made pioneering observations of solar phenomena at the Kodaikanal Observatory in southern India. In 1909, he discovered radial motions in sunspots (gas flows moving outward from the center of sunspots along their surfaces) a phenomenon now known as the Evershed Effect. This discovery fundamentally advanced understanding of sunspot dynamics and solar magnetic fields. The spectroheliograph, invented by George Ellery Hale in 1890, allowed astronomers to photograph the sun in specific wavelengths of light, revealing features invisible to ordinary photography. These prints represent the golden age of solar observation, when British astronomers working at imperial observatories in India contributed significantly to heliophysics. The Kodaikanal Observatory, established in 1899, maintained one of the longest continuous records of solar observation in the world. One of the Royal Observatory photos depicts sunspots, those darker, cooler regions on the solar surface caused by intense magnetic activity.

Memoire sur la Laminage du Plomb by Remond de Saint-Albine, P - TECHNOLOGY

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Title: Memoire sur la Laminage du Plomb
Author: Remond de Saint-Albine, P - TECHNOLOGY
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good with modest wear to the binding.
Description: Paris: J Guerin, 1746. Third Enlarged Edition. First Illustrated.. Full contemporary calf.. Very good with modest wear to the binding.. 8vo, xii, [1] - 78, [2 - privilege] pp. + 3 engraved folding plates of machinery; title vignette. An effort on behalf of the author to overcome the resistance of craft guilds to the introduction of rolled lead sheeting for roofing and gutters. Rolled lead had been in use in the UK since 1670. But the first mill to produce this product in France was established only in 1729 and met with considerable resistance from the guild of plumbers under whom cast lead roofing was a protected craft assignment. This pamphlet defends the advantages of rolled sheet versus cast lead and also goes into a good explanation of manufacturing techniques (all illustrated). This edition (it was first pub'd. in 1731) is the first to have the illustrations. The engraver of the plates is identified as Dheulland, presumably G Dheulland who worked on Belidor's massive hydraulic architecture book. This copy also has bound in a 19th century tariff sheet for various lead pipe and zinc laminated pipe.

A Lottery Ticket To Fund The Washington City Canal Signed By Daniel Carroll by DANIEL CARROLL

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Title: A Lottery Ticket To Fund The Washington City Canal Signed By Daniel Carroll
Author: DANIEL CARROLL
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: (WASHINGTON CITY CANAL). The Washington City Canal was a public works project in early Washington D.C. that was meant to cultivate commerce and industry in the city. The canal connected the Eastern Branch (Anatostia River) to the Potomac River and Tiber Creek. The canal was began in 1810 and opened in 1815. Unfortunately, it was never a big success, and it was filled in 1871 after having fallen into disrepair. It passed through what is now the National Mall.DANIEL CARROLL OF DUDDINGTON (1764-1849). Daniel was the son of Charles Carroll of Duddington and he a major landowner in Washington D.C. who owned the land that would become Capitol Hill.DS. 1pg. 4 x 1 . No date. No place [likely Washington, DC]. A printed lottery ticket signed Danl Carroll of Duddn. The ticket reads: This Ticket will entitle the Possessor to such Prize as may be drawn to its Number, in Lottery No. 1, for cutting the Canal through the City of Washington to the Easter-Branch Harbour. Lotteries were popular ways of funding public and private projects in early America. The lottery ticket is in very good condition with a dark signature and a scalloped left edge.

Flyer" Advance Catalogue. Illustrations and Descriptions of Ideal Specialties in Water Closets and Traps, showing Low Tank Closets Combinations complete and Centrifugal (Adjustable) Traps, with all Connections by Ideal Manufacturing Company

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Title: Flyer" Advance Catalogue. Illustrations and Descriptions of Ideal Specialties in Water Closets and Traps, showing Low Tank Closets Combinations complete and Centrifugal (Adjustable) Traps, with all Connections
Author: Ideal Manufacturing Company
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: Detroit, Mich., U.S.A.: Ideal Manufacturing Company, 1900. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., (9 x 6 inches). 96 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued; a few tears to the edges of wrappers and some toning of the paper stock, otherwise very good. The Ideal Manufacturing Company of Detroit was an old and well-know company which was found in 1887 and sold in 1912 to Colwell Lead Company of New York. This is one of its trade catalogues which featured the toilets and water cabinets which it manufactured. The catalogue also includes images and descriptions of its pipe fittings and traps. There is also a description and illustration of its Centrifugal Trap which increased the velocity of water flow through the pipes. Nice copy.

[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama by ZAITSEV, Evgenii

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Title: [Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama
Author: ZAITSEV, Evgenii
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Moskva: TOO "Passim, 1995. First Edition. Slim folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 183pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine rather toned, old price sticker to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of Soviet artistic works produced during World War II. Text almost entirely in Russian, with an English-language summary on pp. 5-8.

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By Myself and Then Some by Bacall, Lauren

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Title: By Myself and Then Some
Author: Bacall, Lauren
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780060755355
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Harper Entertainment, 2005. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near copy in a near fine dust jacket.SIGNED by the author on the title page. First Harper Entertainment Edition stated on the copyright page with the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3; thus indicating a third printing. Original price of $26.95 printed on the front flap of the dust jacket. Very slight moisture damage to the bottom fore-edge. No indication of other defects; near fine.

LEGACY OF LUTHER by ZEEDEN, Ernst Walter

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Title: LEGACY OF LUTHER
Author: ZEEDEN, Ernst Walter
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: WEST, NEWMAN, 1954. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition.

Johnson's 1974 Special Residential Edition of the Albion, Michigan City Directory by [Albion, Michigan]

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Title: Johnson's 1974 Special Residential Edition of the Albion, Michigan City Directory
Author: [Albion, Michigan]
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Loveland: Johnson Publishing Company, 1974. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 462pp. Wraps darkened and worn witha couple of stains, else a serviceable example.

The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television by Wicking, Christopher, and Tise Vahimagi

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Title: The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television
Author: Wicking, Christopher, and Tise Vahimagi
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: E.P. Dutton. Very Good+. 1979. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. [modest edgewear to covers, light soiling to bottom edge, slight bending at lower corners of last few pages and very slight curling in rear cover]. Trade PB A groundbreaking work in TV history, thsi was the "first comprehensive work to consider films that have been made especially for the small screen, either as TV movies or as series segments." Quite blatantly modeled after Andrew Sarris's "The American Cinema," it places the 280 directors discussed into categories based on "their importance, their fame, and their achievement." The upper echelon -- equivalent to Sarris's "Pantheon" -- is dubbed "Kings of the Stardust Ballroom," and the lesser categories include "I Also Do the Catering" and "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?". (My favorite is "Elephants' Graveyard," which focuses on the television work of once-prominent feature film directors such as Jack Arnold, John Brahm, Stuart Heisler, Tay Garnett, Jacques Tourneur, etc.) It may be hard to comprehend in the age of ImDB and Wikipedia, but back in the 1970s it was next to impossible to even nail down basic credits for individual TV directors, and in that respect alone this is probably a book that launched hundreds of "subjects for further research." .

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