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Bhirasri, Professor Silpa . THAI WOOD CARVINGS
Bangkon 1963 Second Edition. 12mo., 16pp., photo illustrations, wraps. Fine. (a30579)
$20.00 Selander, Robert K. and Donald R. Giller . SPECIES LIMITS IN THE WOODPECKER GENUS CENTURUS (AVES)
NY 1963. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History Vol. 124, Article 6. 4to., pp.217-273, printed wraps. Fine. (a36633)
$25.00 Sen Gupta, J. N. . DIPTEROCARPUS (GURJAN) FORESTS IN INDIA AND THEIR REGENERATION
Delhi 1939. Indian Forest Records New Series, Vol. III, No. 5, April 1939. Lg.8vo., pp. 61-164, photo illus., wraps. Monograph in original stapled printed wraps. Two institution stamps on front. Good, some wrinkling throughout. (a36639)
$90.00 Griffith, A. L. . AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIVE MERITS OF PLANTING TEAK (TECHTONA GRANDIS) STUMPS IN PITS AND IN CROWBAR HOLES IN AREAS HAVING A WEST COAST TYPE OF CLIMATE
Delhi 1939. Indian Forest Records New Series, Vol. III, No. 3, July 1939. Lg.8vo., pp. 47-53, photo illus., wraps. Monograph in original stapled printed wraps. Two institution stamps on front. Good, a bit worn. (a36640)
$35.00 Griffith, A. L. . AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE BEST DATE OF STUMP PLANTING TEAK (TECTONA GRANIS) AT BEGUR (WYNAAD DIVISION) DHONI (PALGHAT DIVISION) AND TOPSLIP (SOUTH COIMBATORE DIVISION)
Delhi 1939. Indian Forest Records New Series, Vol. III, No. 2, Oct. 1939. Lg.8vo., pp.17-43, wraps. Monograph in original stapled printed wraps. Two institution stamps on front. Good, a bit worn. (a36641)
$35.00 Griffith, A. L. . AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIVE MERITS AND COSTS OF FIVE DIFFERENT WEEDING METHODS IN THE FORMATION OF TEAK
Delhi 1939. Indian Forest Records New Series, Vol. III, No. 4. Dec.1939. Lg.8vo., pp. 97-132, wraps. Monograph in original stapled printed wraps. Two institution stamps on front. Good, a bit worn. (a36642)
$35.00 Griffith, A. L. . AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE BEST ROOT LENGTH OF STUMP TO USE WHEN STUMP PLANTING TEAK (TECTONA GRANDIS) IN AREAS HAVING A GENERAL WEST COST TYPE OF CLIMATE
Delhi 1939. Indian Forest Records New Series, Vol. III, No.1 June 1939. Lg.8vo., pp. 1-15, wraps. Monograph in original stapled printed wraps. Two institution stamps on front. Good, a bit worn. (a36643)
$35.00 (wood) . WOOD HANDBOOK: WOOD AS AN ENGINEERING MATERIAL
Washington 1974 (revised). Agriculture Handbook No. 72. 4to., about 250pp., printed boards. VG, light soiling. (a40084)
$35.00 (forests) . STEREO PHOTO SERIES FOR QUANTIFYING NATURAL FUELS. VOLUME IIA: HARDWOODS WITH SPRUCE IN ALASKA
2002. 4to., 41pp., color photo illustrations, stiff spiral wraps. Depository library, date and number stamp on first leaf. VG. (a50436)
$45.00 (forests) . STEREO PHOTO SERIES FOR QUANTIFYING NATURAL FUELS. VOLUME VI: LONGLEAF, PINE, POCOSIN AND MARSHGRASS TYPES IN THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES
2000. 4to., 56pp., color photo illustrations, stiff spiral wraps. Depository library, date and number stamp on first leaf. VG. (a50437)
$45.00 (forests) . STEREO PHOTO SERIES FOR QUANTIFYING NATURAL FUELS. VOLUME VA: JAKE PINE IN THE LAKE STATES
2002. 4to., 49pp., color photo illustrations, stiff spiral wraps. Depository library, date and number stamp on first leaf. VG. (a50438)
$45.00 (forests) . STEREO PHOTO SERIES FOR QUANTIFYING NATURAL FUELS. VOLUME I: MIXED-CONIFER WITH MORTALITY, WESTERN JUNIPER, SAGEBRUSH, AND GRASSLAND TYPES IN THE INTERIOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST
1998. 4to., 73pp., color photo illustrations, stiff spiral wraps. VG. (a50439)
$45.00 (forests) . STEREO PHOTO SERIES FOR QUANTIFYING NATURAL FUELS. VOLUME III: LODGEPOLE PINE, QUAKING ASPEN, AND GAMBEL OAK TYPES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
2000. 4to., 85pp., color photo illustrations, stiff spiral wraps. Depository library, date and number stamp on first leaf. VG. (a50440)
$35.00 Newlin, J.A. and Thomas R.C. Wilson . MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOODS GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES
Washington 1923. Department of Agriculture Bulletin No, 556. 8vo., 47pp., photo illustrations, wraps. VG. (a51176)
$25.00 Bazhenov, V. A. (editor) . PROPERTIES AND PRESERVATION OF WOOD AND NEW MATERIALS FROM WOOD
1970. Translated into English from the Russian edition of 1966. Includes: Moisture Distribution in Growing Trunks of the Main Varieties of East Siberian Trees, Liquid Permeability of Wood of Freshly Cut Conifers, Shrinkage of Wood Across the Fibers During Adsorption, Stabilization of Shape and Size of Pressed wood, Effect of Various Antiseptics on physicomechanical Pproperties of Pine Wood. Octavo, 157pp., original printed wraps. A few depository library stamps. Good, light wear. (a52528)
$45.00 Akhromeiko, A. I. . PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HARDY FORESTS
1968. Translated into English from the Russian edition of 1965. 8vo., 314pp., wraps. One staple on front cover. No ownership marks. Good. (a52530)
$35.00 Sowers, J. I. . WOOD CARVING MADE EASY
NY 1936 1st Bruce. 8vo., 96pp., illustrations, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a52713)
$20.00 McMillin, Charles W. and Floyd G. Manwiller . THE WOOD AND BARK OF HARDWOODS GROWING ON SOUTHERN PINE SITES - A PICTORIAL ATLAS
1980. U.S.D.A. Report SO-29. Octavo, 58pp., monochrome and color photo illustrations, wraps. Depository library stamps, ink numbers on fron. VG. (a52876)
$44.00Ahern, Major George P. and Helen K. Newton. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WOODS OF THE WORLD
Washington 1928. Tropical Plant Research Foundation No. 10. Sm.4to., 77pp., original printed wraps. Good Plus, slight toning overall; slight cover wear; no owner marks. (a55800)
$100.00 Easty Dwight et al . REMOVAL OF WOOD-DERIVED TOXICS FROM PULPING AND BLEACHING WASTES
1978. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 600/2-78-031. 4to., 79pp., wraps. Depository library stamp and numbers on cover and title. VG. (a56655)
$70.00 Knab, Lawrence I and Felix Y. Yokel . A STUDY OF LUMBER USED FOR BRACING TRENCHES IN THE UNITED STATES
1980 Department of Commerce. NBS Building Science Series 122. 4to., about 150pp., photo illustrations, original wraps. Depository library stamp and numbers on cover and titlepage. VG. (a56665)
$65.00 Bertholf, Larry D . USE OF ELEMENTARY STRESS WAVE THEORY FOR PREDICTION OF DYNAMIC STRAIN IN WOOD
Pullman 1965 Washingston State University. 4to., 43pp., original wraps. 43p. Ex-university library, with usual markings. Good, spine taped. (a61534)
$45.00 Tsoumis, George . WOOD AS RAW MATERIAL SOURCE, STRUCTURE, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, GROWTH, DEGRADATION AND IDENTIFICATION
Oxford 1968 first edition Pergamon. Hardcover. Small octavo, 276pp., cloth. Institution stamps on fore-edges, small number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good, no DJ. (a61537)
$25.00 Cummings, Abbott Lowell et al . SAMUEL MCINTIRE A BICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM 1757-1957
Salem 1957 Essex Institute. Architect and carpenter, McIntire, 1757 - 1811, designed many of the large houses in Salem from 1782 to 1811. Hardcover. Octavo, 118pp., photo illustrations, original blue cloth . Fine in Good DJ (plain wax paper). (a69568)
$49.00 Hoeg, Ove Arbo . NOTES ON SOME ARCTIC FOSSIL WOOD WITH A REDESCRIPTION OF CUPRESSINOXYLON POLOMMATUM CRAMER
Oslo 1932 Dybwad. Norges Svalbard Medd. nr. 17. Octavo, 9pp., 3 plates, original printed wraps. Owner signed. Good plus. (a71176)
$25.00 (wood carving) . BOGORODSKOYE ARTS AND CRAFTS; BOIS DE BORGORODSKOI; BOGORODSKOJER ERZEUGNISSE
Moscow c. 1955 Novoexport. Text in English, French and Russian. Sm.4to., 16pp., 31 color photo illustrations of small Russian folk wood carvings- mostly little desktop animals, original wraps. VG. (a74260)
$35.00 Gee, E. A. . OXFORD CARPENTERS 1370-1530
1952. Article at pp. 112-184 in single issue of Oxoniensia. Text and lengthy listing of hundred of carpenters by name and date and items constructed. Included in a complete issue of this journal, with several additional articles. Sm.4to., original printed wraps. VG. (a77063)
$45.00 Muller, P. . QUINTET NO. 1 IN Eb
London 1961 Musica Rara. Music score. 4to., about 36pp., original wraps. Several tiny owner name stamps (Donald Jennings). VG plus. (a77068)
$35.00Thompson, Virgil. BARCAROLLE FOR WOODWINDS ( A PORTRAIT OF GEORGES HUGNET) FOR FLUTE, OBOE, ENGLISH HORN, CLARINET IN Bb BASS CLARINET AND BASSOON
NY 1950 (copyright) Mercury. Music score. 4to., about 30pp., original printed wraps. Several tiny owner name stamps (Donald Jennings). VG. (a77069)
$29.00Starer, Robert. RECITATION FOR Bb CLARINET (OR FLUTE OR OBOE) AND PIANO
NY 1954 (copyright) Southern Music Publishing. Music score. 4to., 6pp., original wraps. Several tiny owner name stamps (Donald Jennings). VG plus. (a77073)
$29.00 (wood engraving) . DOROTHY P LATHROP, A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
1991. Exhibition Catalogue, October and November, 1991, University at Albany and New Britain Connecticut. Co-curated by Marijo Dougherty and Charles Semowich with essay by William Clarkin. Lathrop was a fine quality wood engraver. Octavo, 24pp., illustrations, original wraps. VG. (a77322)
$45.00 Paton, John . DESCRIPTION OF THE PIER-HEAD OF THE OLD SOUTHEND PIER, AND OF THE RECENT EXTENSION OF THE STRUCTURE; WITH AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND RAVAGES OF THE TEREDO NAVALIS, AND THE MEANS HITERTO ADOPTED FOR PREVENTING ITS ATTACKS
London 1849. Octavo, pp.23-56, 3 engraved foldout plates, removed from the Institution of Civil Engineers Minutes of the Proceedings and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a77515)
$55.00 McMaster, Bryce . ON THE WOODS USED FOR SLEEPERS ON THE MADRAS RAILWAY
London 1863. Octavo, pp.241-261, removed from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a78668)
$37.00 Clutterbuck, Rev. James Charles . THE PERENNIAL AND FLOOD WATERS OF THE UPPER THAMES
London 1863. Octavo, pp.336-370, one color foldout map of the Upper Thames, removed from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers and rebound in later wraps. VG (a78672)
$45.00 Rameau; transcribed by Lee M. Lockhart . TAMBOURIN WOODWIND QUINTET
NY 1932 (copyright)Witmark. Sheet music for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and basoon parts. 4to., about 20pp., original wraps. Near Fine. (a80575)
$45.00 Freistadt, Meyer . WOOD WIND QUINTET NO. 1 (signed)
1957. Freistadt, born in New York City, lived from 1909-1986. Music score *signed by Freistadt, and with his address label. 4to., 54pp., stiff cardboard wraps with plastic spiral binding.VG, light spotting on cover. (a81525)
$150.00 Turner, Jim (poems) and Miriam Macgregor (wood engravings) . COTSWOLD DAYS
Gloucestershire 1977 first edition Whittington Press. Poetry. Limited to 1000 copies. 4to. 24p., illustrated with 7 wood engravings by Macgregor, orange wraps with brown and black lettering and picture on front. VG, light wear. (a85876)
$27.00Sotheby & Co and Christie's. Four AUCTION CATALOGUES OF RUSSIAN AND GREEK ICONS - 1967, 1970, 1977
London. 1967 and 1977. first edition. All octavo wraps. 1-Sotheby's sale April, 1967. Sm.4to., 47p., 13 plates, original wraps. VG plus. No ownership marks. 2- Sotheby's 1970 191 items, illustrated. 3-Christies, June 21, 1977. 18 monotone and one color plates Near Fine, owner signed. 4-Christie's April 7, 1977. 35p. monotone illus. prices realized laid in Near Fine; 5-Christie's July 22, 1977. 32p. owner initialed. Set of 5 catalogues: (a87171)
$59.00 Deacon, G. F.; Howarth, O. H. . STREET CARRIAGEWAY PAVEMENTS; WOOD AS A PAVING MATERIAL UNDER HEAVY TRAFFIC
London 1879. Two articles, 101p., 10 woodcut text illustrations, includes discussion and correspondence, removed from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Volume LVIII and rebound in later wraps. VG plus. (a87679)
$55.00 Ladefoged, Kjeld . THE PERIODICITY OF WOOD FORMATION
Kobenhavn 1952 first edition. Det. Kongel. Danske Viden. Selskab. Skr. 7 No. 3. 4to., 98p., photo illustrations, charts, original printed wraps. Good plus, light cover soiling and light cover wear. No ownership marks. (a88657)
$49.00