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Whitworth, J Wayne and Emily E Whitehead (eds). GUAYULE NATURAL RUBBER - A TECHNICAL PUBLICATION WITH EMPHASIS ON RECENT FINDINGS
1991 first edition. US Department of Agriculture. 445p. Oblong 4to wraps. VG++ just faint rectangle where price tag once affixed on front cover. no owner marks. clean. (a102020)
$55.00Mallock, A. THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF VULCANISED INDIA-RUBBER - article in one complete issue of PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, June 6, 1889
London 1889 first edition. Harrison. octavo original printed wraps. issue pp. 175-253. Mallock article pp. 233-248 with 11 text illus. Good, rear panel has some cihpping. Binding secure; text clean; no owner marks. (a102111)
$45.00Nystrom, Ake E. HEALTH HAZARDS IN THE CHLOROPRENE RUBBER INDUSTRY AND THEIR PREVENTION
Stockholm 1948 Acta Med. Scan. sup CCXIX 219. octavo wraps. 125p. Good, light cover soiling. no owner marks. Binding secure; text clean. (a102120)
$29.00Lawrence, James Cooper.. THE WORLD'S STRUGGLE WITH RUBBER 1905-1931.
NY 1931 1st Harper. Hardcover. Octavo, 151pp., some charts, cloth. VG minor wear, no DJ. (a1050)
$28.00 Babcock, Glenn D. . HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY: A CASE STUDY IN CORPORATION MANAGEMENT
1966 Indiana University. Indiana Business Report No. 39. 8vo., 477pp., index, original printed hardcover. Ex-university library. Good, light wear, light soiling, no DJ. (a57862)
$27.00 Riew, C. Keith . RUBBER-TOUGHENED PLASTICS
Washington 1989 1st. ISBN 0-8412-03970. American Chemical Society. Advances in Chemistry Series 222. Hardcover. Octavo, 439pp., printed cloth. Residue of spine label, institution stamps on fore-edges, number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good plus, no dj. (a75470)
$29.00 Romero, Matias . COFFEE AND INDIA-RUBBER CULTURE IN MEXICO PRECEDED BY GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL NOTES ON MEXICO (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A REPRINT)
NY 1898 Putnam. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 417pp., charts, maroon cloth. Tiny paper label on lower spine end. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, spine ends a bit worn, corners bumped. (a80719)
$100.00 Wildeman, E. de . LES LATEX DES EUPHORBIACEES I. CONSIDERATIONS GENERALES
Bruxelles 1944 Institut Royal Colonial Belge. In French. Octavo, 68pp., original printed wraps. VG, text a bit toned. (a82973)
$35.00 Wildeman, E. de . SUR LA DISTRIBUTION DES SAPONINES DANS LE VEGETAL
Bruxelles 1936 Institut Royal Colonial Belge. In French. Octavo, 94pp., original printed wraps. VG, text a bit toned. (a82974)
$44.00 Rivlin, R. S. and D. W. Saunders; A. G. Thomas . LARGE ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS OF ISOTROPIC MATERIALS VII. EXPERIMENTS ON THE DEFORMATION OF RUBBER; VIII. STRAIN DISTRIBUTION AROUND A HOLE IN A SHEET
London 1951. Offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, No. 865, Vol. 243. Lg.4to., pp. 251-298, wraps. VG. No ownership marks. (a88463)
$45.00 Gottlob, Dr. Kurt . TECHNOLOGIE DER KAUTSCHUKWAREN
Braunschweig 1915 first edition Vieweg. Rubber manufacture. In German. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 256p., 92 Abbildungen (illustrations of machinery and equipment), cloth.Near Fine. No ownership marks. (a89026)
$129.00 Ule, E . KAUTSCHUKGEWINNUNG UND KAUTSCHUKHANDEL AM AMAZONENSTROME
Berlin (1905) first edition. Kolonial Wirtschaftliches Komitee. 71p. In German. 10 Abbild, most bw text photos. One bw foldout map. Bound with two other works: Reintgen on Kautschukplfanzen and Fuchs on Wirtschaftliche Erkundung einer ostafrikanischen Sudbahn. Three articles bound together in one hardcover volume, octavo, with marbled boards and paper spine label. Old institute stamp on first titlepage otherwise no ownership marks. VG light cover wear ; text very slightly toned but o/w Fine. (a92672a)
$150.00 Reintgen, Peter . DIE KAUTSCHUKPFLANZEN EINE WIRTSCHAFTSGEOGRAPHISCHE STUDIE
Berlin (1905) first edition. Kolonial Wirtschaftliches Komitee. pp. 73-218. In German. Text graphs and one bw foldout map. Bound with two other works: Ule on Kautschukgewinnung und Kautschukhndel am Amazonenstrome and Fuchs on Wirtschaftliche Erkundung einer ostafrikanischen Sudbahn. Three articles bound together in one hardcover volume, octavo, with marbled boards and paper spine label. Old institute stamp on first titlepage otherwise no ownership marks. VG light cover wear ; text very slightly toned but o/w Fine. (a92672b)
$150.00 Fuchs, Paul . DIE WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ERKUNDUNG EINER OSTAFRIKANISCHEN SUDBAHN
Berlin (1905) first edition. Kolonial Wirtschaftliches Komitee. pp. 219-410. In German. Mit 42 Abbildungen, 2 Skizzen im Text und 2 Karten (two color foldout maps) (titlepage lists 3 maps but only two present and nothing has been removed from binding). Bound with two other works: Ule " Kautschukgewinnung und Kautschukhndel am Amazonenstrome" and Reintgen "Die Kautschukpflanzen". Three articles bound together in one hardcover volume, octavo, with marbled boards and paper spine label. Old institute stamp on first titlepage otherwise no ownership marks. VG light cover wear ; text very slightly toned but o/w Fine. (a92672c)
$150.00 Bousfield, George Tomlinson . MANUFACTURE OF INDIA-RUBBER AND GUTTA PERCHA COMPOUNDS
London 1864 first edition. Spottiswoode. 4to. Original blue printed wraps. 3p. Original patent application to British Greaet Seal Patent Office. Two original patent stamps on first page. Stringbound. two short closed tears on cover. Good. (a93987)
$35.00. GOOD LUCK IN PRESERVING - A BOOKLET OF RECIPES AND SUGGESTIONS
Boston no date (19thc) Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. 16mo wraps. Small recipe book with 4 pages of printed labels for preserves put out by company which made the rubber gasket rings that go inside the canning jar lid for sealing. Interesting in that the first two pages give a brief history of the Swastika "the oldest good luck symbol in the world" which was the logo for the company. Color pictorial on front and rear cover of pamphlet. 17p. How-to instructions on safe preserving also included. VG. (a96900)
$39.00