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

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
Memoire sur la Laminage du Plomb
Author
Remond de Saint-Albine, P - TECHNOLOGY
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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

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

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A Lottery Ticket To Fund The Washington City Canal Signed By Daniel Carroll
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DANIEL CARROLL
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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(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.
[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama

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

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[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama
Author
ZAITSEV, Evgenii
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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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LEGACY OF LUTHER by ZEEDEN, Ernst Walter

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LEGACY OF LUTHER
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ZEEDEN, Ernst Walter
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
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WEST, NEWMAN, 1954. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition.
The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television

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

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The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television
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Wicking, Christopher, and Tise Vahimagi
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ReadInk (United States)
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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." .