Artists Guide Mechanics Own by Pilkington James (90 results)

Hardcover. Brown cloth, gold lettering, covers loose, spine loose and tucked inside book, first edition, damp-stained . Reading copy. FER; 24433.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (technology, industrial arts) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing. Loose/torn hinges. Pages tanned and clean.

490pp. small 8vo black & white frontis engraving + tables & charts Green cloth, gilt spine Missing back free endpaper, moderate cover wear/soil/rubbing: VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust jacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Early printing. No dust jacket. Fair condition book with heavy wear to spine, foxing to end papers and some page edges, overall browning and dust soiling. No Signature.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 12mo. bound in original black cloth. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor nicking & wear to binding; mild toning & light foxing to pages; else good+ condition. 490 pages.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. 490pp, illus., red cloth w/ gilt lettering to spine, wear to cover, cloth worn through at corners, top of spine worn off, bottom worn, heavy foxing to eps, light foxing throughout, waterstain to top edge of most pgs, affects top line of text for 1st 20 pgs, stickers to fep.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Sanborn Carter & Bazin, Boston, MA 1856. 490 pages. Brown cloth with gold decor on spine. Moderate general wear. Occasional foxing. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Art::Painting Technical Art::Art History 6528.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark green cloth cover with gilt lettering and graphic on spine and blind-stamped design on front cover. Foxing to pages throughout. Previous owner's name inside. 490 pages. Binding a bit loose.

Hardcover. 490p., illus. 20cm. Very good condition, some marginal foxing at beginning.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Small octavo. Original blue cloth, heavily faded to a brown color. Gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped decoration on covers. Appendix, index. Covers and fine quite faded, general shelfwear, previous owner's signature across the title page, foxed throughout. A good copy. The full title of the book is "The Artist's Guide and Mechanic's Own Book, Embracing the Portion of Chemistry Applicable to the Mechanic Arts, with Abstracts of Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Pneumatics, Optics, Astronomy and Mechanical Philosophy. Also Mechanical Exercises in Iron, Steel, Lead, Zinc, Copper, and Tin Soldering; and a Variety of Useful Receipts, Extending to Every Profession and Occupation of Life; Particularly Dyeing, Silk, Woollen, Cotton, and Leather". Book.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Later printing (with the less common Portland imprint - Maine?) of this popular handbook for industrial arts, with a lengthy section on chemistry; much shorter abstracts on the basics of electricity, galvanism, magnetism, pneumatics, optics, astronomy; properties of iron, copper, tin, lead, zinc; solder, glue; the sliding rule; mechanics and basic machines; receipts for ink, varnish, dyes for silk, cotton, leather; notes & tables for the steam engine, water wheel, pumps, mills; strength of materials, specific gravity, weights of metal shapes, speeds for boring & turning; building & bricklaying; basic mathematics; mechanical movements. Small hardcover, recently rebound and thus useable; as pictured. Light wear; text block shows some stains & foxing. 490 pages, figures, equations, index. Size: Duodecimo.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Artist's Guide and Mechanic's Own Book | James Pilkington | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Antigonos Verlag | EAN 9783563574683 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint of 1841, Embracing the Portion of Chemistry Applicable to the Mechanic Arts, with Abstracts of Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Pneumatics, Optics, Astronomy, and Mechanical Philosophy. first, brown cloth, full cover embossed decoration, gilt title, subtitle: Also Mechanical Exercises in Iron, Steel, Lead, Zinc, Copper, and Tin Soldering and a Variety of useful Receipts Extending to Every Profession and Occupation of Life, Particularly Dyeing Silk, Woollen, Cotton and Leather, black & white frontispiece of portable engine and fire regulator, woodcuts of steam engine components, a very early locomotive and various mechanical devices, bottom tips and board edge have a touch of rubbing, foxed blank end papers, previous owner signature (H. O. Shaw - pencill) and small ink stamp on ffep, near fine textblock, 490 indexed pages. By Previous Owner.

Hardcover. Very Good. No jacket. Owner's name FEP. Spine starting. Spine sunned, 1" tear at top. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing (first published in 1841). Original brown cloth gilt. A little foxing to the text, spine uniformly sunned, modest stain on front board, still a pleasing and tight, very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1852 Printing. Black leather, four rib spine, gold edging on both boards and around the spine ribs, gold title on spine. Really nice condition shiny black leather binding, marbled end papers, good hinges. Some foxing of text. Looks like the vade mecum of the pre civil war mechanic and artist. Contains everything there is to know about electricity in 3 pages. Same for magnetism. Some nice steam power stuff, very primitive steam locomotive engraving. Lots of chemistry and formulas. Most scarce in leather binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Faded green blind-stamped hard cover. Title in gold on faded spine. Endpapers soiled, as is title page and frontispiece. Binding is tight and text is clean, although browning with age. Several b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, [9]-490. wood-engraved frontis. original blind-stamped cloth (front flyleaf missing). First Edition.

8vo, pp. viii, 490. Engraved frontispiece, Some water stain and little foxing, rebound in modern cloth, stamped in gilt. Good copy.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. 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: 514. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1847 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: 514.