Apple, 2016. Hardcover. Designed by Apple is a book of photos of Apple products, through 2015. The book is intended to showcase the company's history, containing pictures of Apple products, including their interiors, since 1985. ~12" x 14", 299 pp. White cloth boards, Apple logo stamped into front cover, title.....
J. Taylor, 1789. Hardcover. Contains both a historical account of the "five orders" with their proportions and examples of each from the antiques, as well as writings of Vitruvius on the "temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the Ancients", with a dictionary of terms, and ten plates. ~ 8 mo., 84.....
New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2011. Hardcover. Original dust jacket, oatmeal heathered cloth boards. 12.5"x9.5" 256 pages. Minor crease to bottom right front corner of dust jacket. Bumping to bottom right front corner of cloth covered boards. Quarter inch crease to the first 5 pages to bottom right front corner. A......
D. Van Nostrand Company, 1931. Hardcover. Harry Ricardo was "one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine" (Wikipedia). The preface states that this "is a revised and somewhat extended edition of Vol. II of The Internal-Combustion Engine published.....
1912. Hardcover. A thorough report to the mayor of San Francisco by the hydraulic engineer known for designing Hetch Hetchy and several other water projects. The full title reads: "On the Proposed Use of a Portion of the Hetch Hetchy, Eleanor, and Cherry Valleys within and near to the Boundaries.....
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1932. Soft cover. This report was commissioned by President Steele of the San Francisco Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1929, with the purpose of "investigating the problem of subsidence". The text details subsidence early in the history of the city, and.....
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast, 1915. Hardcover. The Architectural League of the Pacific coast was organized in Portland, OR in 1909, which organized annual architectural exhibitions and organized scholarship work, and published the book. This yearbook contains lists of the club's members, patrons, exhibitors, photographs, illustrations, and sketches of.....
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast, 1913. Hardcover. The Architectural League of the Pacific coast was organized in Portland, OR in 1909, which organized annual architectural exhibitions and organized scholarship work, and published the book. This yearbook contains lists of the club's members, patrons, exhibitors, photographs, illustrations, and sketches of.....