London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957. Octavo, red cloth with spine lettering, 190 pp. The endpapers have some tape marking, and the previous owner's stamp 'P. Parker', light foxing, otherwise a very good copy in the dust jacket. First English edition. Arthur Henry 'Sarsfield' Ward, Sax Rohmer, was a prolific British music..... More
Monee, Illinois: Rough Draft Printing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated printed wrappers, x, 322 pp., illustrated with diagrams and figures. A near-fine copy. A modern reprint of Joshua Rose's Modern Steam Engines: an elementary treatise upon the steam engine written in plain language; for use in the workshop as well as in..... More
Melbourne: Hardie Grand Books, 2018. Octavo, original printed wrappers, xxxi, 248 pp., four double-sided plates. A fine copy. In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station just south of Alice Springs. David Rosenberg's account is a fascinating glimpse..... More
London: Ruston, Proctor & Co., LTD, 1892. Small quarto, printed illustrated wrappers, approximately 64 pp., illustrated with steam engine models. Wrappers worn, tear and loss of text on rear wrapper, small and localised water stain on top-edge of a few leaves, otherwise a very good copy. An illustrated catalogue with..... More
London: Century, 1999. Octavo, dark blue cloth hardcover, dust-jacket, xvi, 304 pp., 8 double sided black-and-white plates. A fine copy. A full account of the space race from the end of the Second World War to the epoch moment of America's historic moon landing in 1969. More
New York: Pegasus Books, 2017. Octavo, black papered-boards, 20 preliminary pages, 276 pp., 12 double-sided plates. Fine copy with dust-jacket. Tarter's life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has..... More
New York: J. J. Little & Ives Company, 1949. Small quarto, printed illustrated cloth, illustrated endpapers, viii, 446 pp., frontispiece in colour, illustrated with black and white photographs, maps, and drawings. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise very good condition. Elliott White Springs was an American flying ace of World War I...... More
Melbourne: The Meadmore Model Engineering Co., Circa 1935. Octavo, illustrated printed wrappers, 64 pp., illustrated with photographs and drawings. Wrappers slightly foxed along edges, otherwise a very good copy. A catalogue listing products and prices of the various parts needed to build scale models similar to the Union Pacific Railroad's..... More
Melbourne: The Model Dockyard, 1934. Octavo, illustrated printed wrappers, 28 pp., illustrated. A near-fine copy. The Model Dockyard catalogue of 1934-1935 with lists of model railway accessories, steam locomotive fittings, gauge models and sets of castings. More
Amsterdam: Springer, 2017. Octavo, printed wrappers, xix, 588 pp., illustrated. Back cover creased, otherwise a near-fine copy. A comprehensive book to document the European independent manned spaceflight Hermes program. More
Melbourne: published by the Pastoral Review, 1911 & 1914. Two volumes, in matching polished gilt calf bindings; paginated viii, 536 pages (1911), and viii, 442 pages (1914) respectively. Profusely illustrated throughout. We are pleased to offer two volumes of the Pastoral Homes of Australia, a benchmark publication of Australian rural..... More
Hobart: Davies Brothers, circa 1924. Quarto, green papered boards with gilt lettering on front cover and gold illustrations, [iv], frontispiece and map, 96 pp., illustrated in black and white. Localised stains on front wrapper, small tears on title leaf with no loss of text, otherwise a good copy. Foreword by..... More
London: Fredrick Muller Ltd, 1968. Octavo, brown cloth, vii, 216 pp., 35 in-text illustrations with diagrams. Mild spotting on end papers, otherwise a near fine copy. First UK edition. This book deals with space flight and is divided in seven chapters, going from launch and ascent to planets and beyond..... More
Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2006. Quarto, printed wrappers, 272 pp., illustrated. A near fine copy. The story of the U-Bootwaffe - the men, their U-boats and their bases of concrete and steel. Personal accounts vividly capture the lives of the crews both above and below the surface of the sea, while..... More
London: British Museum Publications, 1985. Quarto, printed wrappers, 205 pp., profusely illustrated with black-and-white illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Turner Abroad is a compilation of 128 plates by English romantic painter J.M.W Turner. The landscape paintings reflect classical 19th Grande Tour scenes which formed part of the 'Turner Abroad' exhibition..... More
London: Bison Books, 1986. Folio, black cloth, dust jacket, 192 pp., profusely illustrated with colour. Spotting and tearing on dust jacket, light spotting on endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. The Astronauts presents a detailed account of manned space programs of the US and the USSR as well as an..... More
