Sir Hiram Maxim (44 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1908 1st Ed. Light purple cloth with fading along spine and wear and soil to covers. . However, all lettering on spine and front cover is legible. Some edgewear and front hinge cracked. Internally there are no names or marking. Endpapers have some foxing but text pages are clean and thoroughly legible with all illustrations present. Not a collector's copy but a viable reference. -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Feb.26,1910 Flight magazine, First Areo Weekly in the World. Covers show light scuffing/rubbing with rust on spine staples, light soiling at edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Sport2-Bottom-Up-R-Flat) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Li was a towering figure in late nineteenth century Chinese political, religious and philosphical life. Maroon publisher's cloth. Crack to front hinge. Staining to endpapers with no previous owner's name or inscription, otherwise a clean and complete copy. Wear to corners and extremities of spine. Original bookseller's sticker to front paste down (Foyles) All proceeds of sale go to LOROS, a Hospice CHarity serving Leicestershire and Rutland.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without text leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Faded purple cloth over boards, with gold lettering on the cover and spine. Spine is faded several tones lighter than the boards, which are themselves more faded at the edges than the middle. Binding tight and clean. Title page dated 1908. 166 pages. Illustrated with 95 illustrations. Curiously, there are only three mentions of the Wright brothers (including one photograph). Charts and diagrams and explanations of the aeronautical principles and physics, in addition to discussion of pioneers in the field. Interior clean. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photo beside this listing, please note that it was placed there by ABE without our permission and is likely what they call a 'stock photo' (whatever that is). This volume is part of a large collection of Aviation and Ballooning books, a catalogue of which is available upon request. Most of the volumes have a small pencil notation on the first blank page - the letters KB and a number. Many have Evelyn Kendall's signature as well.

hardback, 8vo, 160,(32)pp, b/w illustrations, pages browned throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth pictorial, edges slightly rubbed, Good condition.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: Watts and Co., 1913. 382p. Rubbed red cloth binding. Best described as a very good reading copy. Asia.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Large 8vo HB. pp; xxxii, 382. Portrait frontis w/ tissue-guard. Discolouration to edges of text-block. Fair in red cloth, lettered gilt to spine. Some old marking to both boards, slight dulling to the spine, and some rubbing and bumping to the extremities.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, red cloth, b/w frontispiece portrait of Li Hung Chang, with caption sheet, 42 further illustrations; endpapers toned, light rubbing to extremities, gilt dulled, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Drawings by Howard Pyle, Joseph Pennell, Charles Dana Gibson, others (illustrator). 1st Edition. This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in cordovan leather over pebbled boards of a similar color, with original gray-green endpapers and bright marbled page edges, five raised bands with equally bright gilt spine titling and the hinges holding well; "very good." Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait of Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., reduced from $1,625.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Drawings by Howard Pyle, Joseph Pennell, Charles Dana Gibson, others (illustrator). 1st Edition. This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in cordovan leather over black pebbled boards, with original floral endpapers, the hinges holding well. Closes its own text block and would thus grade "very good," but we downgrade to "good plus" due to substantial wear and rub which has stripped the leather to outer corners. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait or Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., here reduced from $1,275.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Drawings by Howard Pyle, Joseph Pennell, Charles Dana Gibson, others (illustrator). 1st Edition. This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, was evidently rebound at some point in reddish-brown cloth with plain green endpapers by New York's Eggering Bindery, whose small label appears to bottom corner of front pastedown. Gilt titles to spine. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait or Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine" (a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground); Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., here reduced from $1,800.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Drawings by Howard Pyle, Joseph Pennell, Charles Dana Gibson, others (illustrator). 1st Edition. This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in black leather over blue-and-black marbled boards, with original floral endpapers, the hinges holding well although there's the beginning of some separation to rear internal hinge. Bang to fore-edge of front board. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait of Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., reduced from $1,550.

Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Octavo. xv, [1], 176 pp. 95 figures in text including sketches, photographs, diagrams and tables. Publishers' deep pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Cover cloth patchily sunned and stained with minor wear at spine tips and corners and deep score-mark across centre of upper board. Inner front hinge cracked but holding; lacks ffep; rfep toned. Half-title soiled and loose top 3 inches; scattered fingermarking. No annotation or inscriptions. A Good copy. Aeronautical classic recounting the Author's own experiments with flight as a pioneering aviator. Maxim (1840-1916) is best known for his automatic portable machine gun; he also invented other contraptions including a mousetrap and curling irons. His aeroplanes were never a success, apart from the popular fairground ride the "Captive Flying Machine", one of which is still in operation at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by George A. Stevens (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Pictorial covers in shades of orange, red, white and black. Wear to corners, edges and surface but still a solid and presentable very good to very good - copy. Square with a secure binding with no parting or tears. Interesting and entertaining work on gambling, particularly roulette, in Monte Carlo at the turn of the 20th century. Charts on roulette in rear. ; B&W Drawings; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 325 pages.

Paris, H. Dunod/E. Pinat, 1909. 239 pp, num. figures in b/w, 4to, cloth.

First and only edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated orange cloth covers, red and black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 326 [16 page catalogue] printed pages of text with 19 single-sided monochrome illustrations throughout, one of which has a repaired tear. Rubbing to the covers, spine a little sun darkened, contents clean. Member of the P.B.F.A. GAMBLING & BETTING.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5.5 x 8.75in. xvi. 328pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's cloth boards with decoration and titling. GOOD. A former copy of a historical society with their label shadow at the spine and bookplate at the front paste-down, spine lightly toned and rubbed, corners rubbed and showing, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Octavo. xv, 176pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt and blind titles. Some minor fading to spine and a couple of small ink splashes. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some minor off-setting and spotting to end papers, otherwise contents in good order. Illustrated. Overall a Very Good copy.

Tela. Condition: Lomera Rasgada. 382 pp/ with portrait of Li Hung Chang as frontispiece and forty-two illustrations / A-156/ TC/ Size: 13.5x20.5. Libro.

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: 192. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1908 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: 192.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. xv, 166pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt titles. Fading to spine and board edges. Minor rubbing to head & tail of spine. Some off-setting and foxing to end papers, otherwise contents in good order. Illustrated. Overall a Very Good copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. George A. Stevens (illustrator). First edition. A delightful commentary on Monte Carlo at the turn of the twentieth century written by inventor Hiram Maxim, illustrated throughout. With anecdotes on Monte Carlo, comments on luck, a defence of roulette, the games played at Monte Carlo, as well as Maxim's article to 'The New York Herald'.Written by Sir Hiram Maxim, an inventor known for inventing the first automatic machine gun. He claimed to have invented the lightbulb, and experimented with powered flight. Maxim held patents for curling irons, numerous electric lamps and steam pumps.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Bound in the charming decorative cloth depicting the author.With illustrations throughout by G. A. Stevens.A contemporary ownership inscription to the front pastedown which is illegible but belonged to someone in Ashford, Middlesex in 1907.The first, and only, edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; cloth is a little discoloured and bumped to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with slight strain to both hinges which remain firm; there is the occasional strain through the text. Pages have just the odd spot. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. An intriguing account by this fascinating pioneer. Includes a great deal of technical detail based on his researches. 2nd ed. pp.xvi.176. Illus. Diags. Spine sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. hardback book in good to very good condition, spine is dull, some sun fade, hinges are solid, name on back blank page,Very early book on flight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Three volumes bound in 1, half leather; 9.5"x6.5", original wraps not included: 1) The American Journal of Eugenics, successor to Lucifer the Light-Bearer, vol. 1, no. 5, November 1907. M. Harman, Editor and Publisher; pp 242 to 292. Articles by Moses Harman (ed.); C.W. Saleeby; Paul Tyner; Henrietta Fuerth (Henriette Fürth); Hugh Mann; 2) The American Journal of Eugenics, successor to Lucifer the Light-Bearer, vol. 1, no. 6, December 1907. M. Harman, Editor and Publisher;pp 299 to 348; articles by Theodore Schroeder; Alice B. Stockham; Arthur Wastall; R.B. Kerr; Edgar L. Larkin; George Bedborough; Moses Harman; Lena Belfort; 3) The R.P.A. Annual and Ethical Review for the year 1911. Edited by Charles A. Watts. Rationalist Press Association. London, Watts & Co. Foxing mainly on the initial and final pages. Articles by Rev. R. Roberts; prof. Edward Westermack; F.J. Gould; Dr. F.C. Conybeare; etc. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 166. 95 text illus. (some full-page). cloth (spine faded, covers spotted, institutional rubberstamp on title). First Edition of this interesting work by the American-born mechanical engineer and inventor. Maxim invented the Maxim gun, the first portable fully automatic machine gun, a curling iron, a pocket menthol inhaler and larger steam inhaler, aircraft artillery, and various other devices. He also claimed to have invented the electric light bulb, becoming involved in several lengthy patent disputes with Thomas Edison. He also experimented with flying machines and was the originator in 1904 of an immensely popular amusement park ride that is still in use today (The 'Captive Flying Machine'). "A gifted and versatile inventor, Maxim received 122 United States patents and 149 British patents. He devoted much time and money near the turn of the century to aeronautical experiments. An airship he built in 1894 to study the lift and thrust of various wing shapes and propellers actually rose from the ground, but he had not developed methods for controlling his machine in the air and did not achieve manned flight. He had, however, using an incredibly heavy, steam-propelled machine, proved that mechanical flight in heavier-than-air machines was possible." (encyclopedia) The present work contains chapters on air currents and the flight of birds, flying of kites, screws, experiments with apparatus attached to a rotating arm Crystal Palace experiments, hints as to the building of flying machines steering by means of a gyroscope, the shape and efficiency of aeroplanes - the action of aeroplanes and the power required expressed in the simplest terms some recent machines.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of this discussion of the possibilities of aerial warfare, published prior to the First World War. The scarce first edition of this work, in the striking publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-six plates, and a number of vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. A fascinating examination of the rapid development of aeronautics at the turn of the twentieth century. This work discusses the possible use of aeroplanes and other flying machines in warfare. This book was published just a few years before the outbreak of the First World War, where many of the matters discussed in the war were put into practice.This was the first work on aerial warfare to be published for the public, other works before this having been limited to the military. At the time this work was published, aeroplanes were a new phenomena, with the first successful manned flight taking place in 1903.With the bookplate of L.C.E. Wyndham to the front pastedown.With an advertisement leaf to the rear.Written by R. P. Hearne, who also wrote 'Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins', and was a motoring journalist. With an introduction by Hiram Maxim, an inventor who is best known for his creation of the first portable automatic machine gun. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with boards bright. Bookplate to front pastedown. Rear hinge a touch strained to tail, but firmly held. Internally, binding a touch strained to the start of the work, but generally holding firm. One plate detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright, with foxing to page perimeters. Small loss to tail of one plate. Very Good. book.