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Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper cover. Contains colour plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Sticker mark to last page of textblock. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Price stickers to back cover. Visible wear marks to covers.

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and creasing - a few tape repairs.

Softcover Satin Finish. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. ## Lighting: Early Oil Lamps, Candles by W T O'Dea 1966 No.1 ## ## THIS BOOK: Classified FINE: This Book is the 1966 edition. Originally published in 1966. A unique catalogue of early oil lamps is held at The Science Museum. Full colour photos of the various oil lamps in colour and information on each one,## ## Wherever possible, the following photographs have been planned not so much with technical detail in mind as to convey the lighting atmosphere that could be derived from these old-time devices. The fuels used have been identical to or practically equivalent to those used then. Mutton fat was used as grease in the grease lamps, but a present-day veterinary grade of cod liver oil was deemed reasonable enough for crude fish oil. Tallows varied in smell-producing and light-giving quality when they were in common use. They could be very poor. ## # The British Admiralty always specified that candles should be of 'best London tallow', but as the cost was not very much less than that of the much more manageable beeswax, Samuel Pepys, who was Secretary of the Admiralty Board, in 1663 'begun to burn wax candles in my closet at the office, to try the charge, and to see whether the smoke offends like that of tallow candles.'## ## Tallow did not have to be of animal origin. To a lesser extent, mutton fat, pig fat, and arid beef fat were common in Britain, but in many countries, a tallow of vegetable origin was more easily procured. For lamps, before large supplies of mineral oils came in from 1860 ## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch with me for a shipping quotation. ###. No Author signature.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Sticker shadow on cover. 48p. 20 color plates. Measures 6 inches square. From stone and shell lamps through student lamps and whale oil camphene lamps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound with some dust marks on the cover, also a mark on the printed price on the back from a removed sticker showing a later price.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1972 Her Majesty's Stationery Office second impression paperback; very good copy, just name inside front cover, appears unread; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 22 pages. Colour illustrations. Some wear to covers' corners, light greying of white background of covers o/w a clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1970 Her Majesty's Stationery Office first edition paperback; very good copy, just name inside front cover, appears unread; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good used condition. Dust wrapper - Good used condition, edge wear, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Part 1 - History and Development. Usual library stamps and stickers, and front cover slightly loose.Text clean.

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 15 x 15 cm ca. 40 S. ; Broschiert. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe bis leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Hinterdeckel ist etwas fleckig; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Nio Dust Jacket. First Edition. 2 volumes. A Good set in lightly soiled yellow paper covers, each with the bookplate of inventor William T. Bovie inside the front cover. Clean/unmarked copies within, and not ex-library. Book.

First Edition. Condition: vg. vg 1st HMSO Science Museum First Edition 1933 trade edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condition: nrFine. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Cartoné con sobrecubierta. Buen estado. Idioma: inglés. Ilustrado con fotografías en b/n y color.

Paperback. Condition: VG. Reprint.

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Electrical Engineering, part I. Probably a reprint, 1938. Errata slip loosely inserted. Page fore-edge foxed; spine browned & a little worn.

Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1933. 78 & 96 pages. 66 illustrations. 9.5 x 6", printed wrappers. Presentation slip. Covers rubbed, bit creased, G.

The Scientific Book Club, London 1961. 184 pp. Publisher's cloth with d/w. Bookplate. Fine condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Revised Edition. 38 page stapled booklet. Line diagrams. Black and white photos. Revised edition of the 1937 first edition. A nostalgic and informative look at the state of the art in electrical lighting extant in the first half of the 20th century. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60110457: 1966. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 46 pages illustrée de nombreuses photos en couleur hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 46. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1949 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 46.

Publisher's original Art Deco monochrome illustrated yellow card wrap covers. 8vo 9½'' x 6'' 96 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine slightly darkened, scribbled out name to the front free end paper and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

Publisher's original Art Deco monochrome illustrated yellow card wrap covers. 8vo 9½'' x 6'' 78 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine slightly darkened, scribbled out name to the front free end paper and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Wrappers. Front wrap loose, Copy very good, very lightly foxed. Index. 58 Figures including diagrams and Photographic Illustrations of equipment from 1878 to 1943 including clockwork transmitter and detector, Hertz Apparatus, Oscillators and seonators, Lodge Coherers, Magnetic Detectors, Pedersen tikker, Fleming diode valves, Marconi, Lodge-Muirhead, Poldhu, diagram of different aerial configurations, Telefunken, Duddell, Poulsen, Jigger, Bellini-Tosi, Catkin, Rigby, Ongar, Burndept, Baird Television. Contents includes Electromagnetic Waves, Detectors, Early Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, The Development of Wireless Telegraphy, The Thermoinic Valve, Further Developments in Transmission, Wireless Telephony Recievers, Television and Picture Telegraphy, Miscellaneous Developments ( Microphones, Loudspeakers, Measurement of Wavelength), References.