Model Making (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair Chilton 1967 paperback First edition Cover shows fairly minor edge wear, notably on bottom front edge Pages clean Binding tight Generally a nice copy.

Wraps. black-&-white illustrations (illustrator). ,Four individual issues, each vg in stapled wraps,Plans and instructions on how to make: 'modern interurban electric car'; two-cylinder compressed air engine to be used in flying model airplanes; model semaphore signal; various scale model locomotives etc. Issues for April, September & October, 1928; and June, 1929. Sold as a lot of four, only.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Softcover with plastic spiral binding. First edition. Moderate wear to front and back covers. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Book documents the topographic models prepared during World War II by the 1622 Engineer Model Making Detachment. Included are several pages of facsimile letters commending the detachment for their work, photos of the topographic models, and photos and biographies of the men who did the work. Unpaginated.

Condition: New.

First Edition. First edition of this French instruction manual for cartonnage or making and designing objects with cardboard and paper. Tools, techniques for making basic shapes such as cones, cylinders, globes, et cetera., and methods of colouring, varnishing, and gilding are discussed. Instructions for making decorative objects such as baskets, work boxes, and ornaments follow. The projects develop in complexity from this point, with examples such as the Ionic temple presented in the frontispiece. Plates engraved by Nicholas Louis Rousseau. Bound together with DE BÉCOURT, A. "Art de Fabriquer Toutes Sortes d'Ouvrages en Papier" Pour l'Instruction et l'Amusement des Jeunes Gens des Deux Sexes. Published in Paris by Audot, 1828. First edition of an ingenious work for children designed to teach them applications of geometry. With a hand-coloured frontispiece. "L'art de représenter en papier sur une petite échelle un objet donné, consiste principalement il savoir dessiner, couper, ployer et joindre ensemble des morceaux de papier de dimensions diverses, et à colorer l'objet." Thus the text proceeds, with plates of explications, to instruct in each of these steps. Small octavo, 148 mm x 90 mm, 107 + (1) pp. + 8 fold out engraved plates including frontispiece + 8pp. publisher's ads; 106 pp. including hand-coloured frontispiece +21 engraved plates. Both volumes bound together in contemporary quarter calf with gilt title and bands, decorative paper boards, original endpapers, green silk tie, faded marginal stain approx. 1.5 cm that gradually disappears from margin to fore edge, text and illustrations remarkably fresh and bright, very good to near fine.

Guarantee: 1p., 4to. In fair condition, on aged paper. Reads: 'Bristol 8mo 24. 1853 | I hereby guarantee to the Great Western Railway Company payment for all the tickets which may be sold for the Cheap Trip to London, on the 29th. Inst., undertaken by the promoters of the New Bedminster Temperance Hall | Robert Charleton | Orwell Villa | Cotham New Road'. Written across the page in red ink: 'Cancelled | M J Cairns'. Addressed by Charleton on reverse to 'The Manager | Great Western Railway Company'. The engraving is on a 12 x 17.5 cm piece of paper. In fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. Shows the outside of the hall, with the caption 'Design for proposed Temperance Hall and Mechanics Institution, Bedminster, Bristol. | Lavars Lithographer Bridge Street Bristol'. In pencil: 'Unaccepted plan' and 'Not accepted'. See Image.