James Watt, Signed (29 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Mary Schold Rober (illustrator). 1st Edition. 248 pp. not since the infamous Teapot Dome Scandal of 1923 had the public's mineral wealth been so jeopardized by federal-corporate schemes. But a grassroots movement stopped the plunder. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Cover is clean and bright as new.

paperback, Condition: Very Good, reprint from Notes & Records of the Royal Soc. of London, 24,#2, Apr. 1970, 8vo. stapled wraps, 11pp. signed by Robinson, NF $.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed By Author On Half Title Page, No Other Marks Or Names, Square And Solid Binding, Clean And Bright Soft Covers. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. enlarged soft cover undated edition, 282 pages, signed by author on FEP, light soil to top edge of front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very large softcover, color-illustrated wrappers, tiny brown stain at top front, tiny smudge on front left next to spine, 282 pages. Black felt tip pen signature of Ron Arnold on half-title page. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Near fine in good dust jacket. Hardcover dust jacket has tiny tear flared edges. Signed.

Hardcover. 8vo. Blue buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 191pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Front jacket panel has small abrasion at upper right, else flawless. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim memoir by the controversial treasury secretary, signed boldly by her in blue fineline on the front flyleaf.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 46 pp, 35 black and white illustrations, card covers a little scuffed. A crease runs through the bottom right hand corner of the first half of the book but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Signed by the author on the reverse of the front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Pbk, 382pp, SIGNED by the author on half-tuitle page, lower corner bumped front to rear, not affecting the text, which remains fine, clean, tight and unmarked, as new. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Collectible - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. SOFTCOVER. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace edge wear & discoloration to upper front edge. Author signed to first title page. Case study of American politics and governmental bureaucracies. Biography of the controversial and steely James Gaius Watt (1938 -), Secretary of the Interior to President Reagan, the controversial environmental, religious, and political issues surrounding his tenure, and the propelling of the hitherto, largely not-in-the-public-limelight, Interior Department responsible for management of the country's natural resources. 10 chapters: 1, Who is Jim Wat?.; 2, Environmental America.; 51, The Confirmation Battle.; 5, The Religious War.; 6, A Question of Balance.; 7, Taming the Bureaucracy.; 8, Regulationism.; 9, Besieged.; 10, The Public Interest.; 11, Outreach.; 12, The Good, the True, & the Media.; 13, A Year of Change.; and, 14, The New Beginning., followed by Appendix. Author Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. James Watt (illustrator). Landscape quarto, 158 pages, colour illustrations throughout, near fine condition with dust-wrapper. Signed by the artist on the title-page with subsequent unrelated gift inscription (see photograph). Heavy book - additional shipping will be requested for destinations out-with the United Kingdom. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Top edge of some pages uncut throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1ST. Excellent Copy - Signed - Dick Hay, Thanks For Your Commitment - By The Author On The Front Free End Page. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, No Real Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks, And Enjoy. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1ST. Excellent Copy - Signed - By The Author On The Front Free End Page. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, No Real Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks, And Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 9 x 6", pict wraps, 282pp with index, covers rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and a bit worn, spine darkened, contentes good. FIRST EDITION (NAP), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR , RON ARNOLD; ALSO SIGNED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK, JAMES WATT, AND HIS WIFE, LEILANI WATT. Watt was the controversial pick as Secretary of the Interior; at the front of the book is a plea from the "Council of Volunteer Americans" for their "Project: Defend James Watt".

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author on front endpaper "John ?Conbrough Esq with the authors kind regards Crosslet Dunbarton 12-6-1901" (but not signed). Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT endpapers browned and front cover veretically faded in strips. Inscribed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Modern half-cloth with leather spine label and marbled boards. cxxvii, 262pp. Frontis and 2 plates. Inscribed by James Partrick Muirhead "Thomas Thomson Esqre, advocate, with the Editor's Kind Regards" to front blank. 1st edition 1846, large paper copy. Small losses to fore edge of insribed front blank. Small N.W.B. Library stamp to half-title and contents page. Archival tape repair to top edge of contents page. A rather pleasing copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (bs136). Inscription from Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed boldly by James Watt the younger at Aston Hall to William Lloyd. This is probably William Forster Lloyd. Both were Fellows of the Royal Society. Original embossed black cloth. Some foxing spots to the engraved portrait of James Watt. senior. A few mm missing from top of spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author. John C. Fairlie Esq from the authors Crosslet Dunbarton 12.6.1901 (not signed). DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black and white frontis and illustrations Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to lightly bruised corners and edges. Light creasing to lightly pushed spine ends. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with toned intact endpapers. Author inscription to ffep dated 1901[7?] DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xxii, 215. Size: 8vo 19cm by 12cm. Inscribed by Author.

8°. Mit gest. Titelporträt ("E. Finden sculp." - stockfleckig). IX, 261 SS. Etwas späterer Hldr. mit goldgepr. Rückenschild und etwas Rvg. (leicht fleckig und beschabt). "Arago's life of Watt was translated into English not once but twice, both in 1839. The present translation, by Muirhead, author of two later authorative works on Watt, also includes Lord Jeffrey's 'Eulogium of James Watt', Arago's memoir on machinery, and Lord Brougham's account of the discovery of water. Dickinson considered Muirhead's translation to be the best" (Vorbesitzer).- Vortitel mit eigenh. Widmung von Muirhead.- Unbeschnitten, leicht gebräunt, teilweise etwas fleckig. Titel verso und letzte Textseite mit kl. Stempel.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of this privately printed biography of prominent engineer James Watt. The uncommon first edition of this work, signed by the author to the front free endpaper, with 'John Colwell Esq with the author's kind regards', dated 1907.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and eight further plates. Collated, complete.A biography of Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist James Watt, known for creating the Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.This work was printed for private circulation.Advertisement leaf to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright, with light fading to back strip, and bumps to back strip head and tail. Inscribed to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

1st Edition, 8vo, (21cm), 70pp (2) blank. No title or drop title: running heads only. Signed 'Sir John Herschel' to head of p.1. A few ink corrections to p.64 (possibly in Herschdel's hand). The article appeared in the Edinburgh Review 87 (Jan. 1848): 67137, but is re-paginated [1]-70 in this issue. The article is based on a review of 3 works (listed at the head of p.1): 1. Address to the meeting of the British Association, held at Birmingham, 26th August, 1839 : with postscript / by W. Vernon Harcourt (London, 1840) -- 2. Historical éloge of James Watt / by M. Arago ; translated with additional notes and an appendix by James P. Muirhead (London, 1839) -- 3 Correspondence of the late James Watt on his discovery of the composition of water : with a letter from his son / edited, with introductory notes and an appendix, by James P.Muirhead (London, 1846). Original plain paper covers. Some wear and spotting to covers. Some leaves dog-eared, but binding firm and very clean throughout. A rare offprint which details an interesting scientific controversy. James Watt is largely perceived today as a steam engineer, but in this extensive and thorough critique he is given priority as the discoverer of 'the true nature and composition of water', over Henry Cavendish. While Cavendish clearly conducted his experiments first and is generally attributed with the accolade it was indeed Watt who first suggested that water was a combination of gasses, rather than an element in its own right. Lord Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic who edited the Edinburgh Review for over forty years, and though not credited as the author in this offprint, the article is highlighted by his biographer as being very last of his many contributions to the magazine (Cockburn, The Life of Lord Jeffrey with a Selection from his Correspondence, Edinburgh, 1852, Vol I, pp 402-403). Lord Jeffrey appears in a list of correspondents with Sir John Herschel and this may have been a presentation copy, but it is hard to establish whether or not the signature is in Herschel's hand as known examples of his handwriting and signature display bewildering differences from one letter to another.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. x, [2], 96 p. 25 cm. Green leather with gilt impressing. All edges gilt. Binding signed by W. H. Dalton, Cockspur Street. Spine worn with tear at top. Moderate wear to edges. A few scratches in leather. Bookplate for Sir James French on front pastedown. Occasional foxing and pencil marks. Speeches by the Earl of Liverpool, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir James Mackintosh, the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Wilberforce, and others. Names on the committee listed at rear include Right Hon. Geo. Canning, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Walter Scott, William Wilberforce, Richard Arkwright, Charles Babbage, Josiah Wedgwood, and James Watt, among others. Introduction by C. H. Turner, Chairman of the Committee. William Henry Dalton, 28 Cockspur Street, London, was at one time bookseller to the Queen.

First edition of this biographical work celebrating Wattâs refinement of the steam engine as a symbol of Scottish ingenuity and moral progress. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and black, title page vignette. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Mr. David Anderson, Andrew Carnegie." In very good condition. Andrew Carnegie (1835â"1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, philanthropist, and writer whose life epitomized the complexities of capitalism, self-made success, and moral responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rising from humble origins as an immigrant laborer to become one of the wealthiest men in history through the expansion of the American steel industry, Carnegie later devoted his fortune to public causes, establishing libraries, universities, and cultural institutions worldwide.

Hardcover. First British Edition. Decorated red cloth, part of the Famous Scots Series and likely published in the same year as the American edition, 1905. Carnegie's biography of the inventor of the steam engine. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by the author "To Alexander Booth Esq/Laurel Bank/Dalkeith Road/Dundee" and SIGNED in full "Andrew Carnegie." Laid in is a four-page publisher's catalog. Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine with a fine inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint (originally published in 1905). Red cloth lettered in white. Attractive small bookplate of Robert Augustus Franks on the front pastedown, a trifle rubbed on the spine, still easily fine. Signed by Carnegie under the printed title on the half-title page: "by Andrew Carnegie, May 22d 1914." Biography of Carnegie's fellow Scotsman, James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. Previous owner Robert Augustus Franks was Andrew Carnegie's financial secretary, Trustee of the Carnegie Institution, and served on the Board of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Books signed by Carnegie are uncommon.

Condition: Very Good. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1901. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm); publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,[4],215pp.; frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Moderate shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and cloth a shade sunned, endpapers toned; Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, "Prof. J.D. Cormack with the author's best compliments / Crosslet, Dumbarton, 27.9.1901.".

Condition: Fine. England, 1839. Two rare and important SIGNED MANUSCRIPT letters addressed to John Watt, son of James Watt, at Aston Hall, Birmingham by Lord Brougham at Brougham Castle, 1839. One a query as to who was the first to weigh the water produced by the combination of the two airs. Red seal. The other from London on Arago (the French astronomer, Francois Arago) and the Watt memorial. Both attended this event in Paris. Each letter one page, folded, dated and signed by Lord Brougham. Signed.

Briefkarte (Blanko), eigenhändig signiert RAR ! (locker aufgezogen auf Albumblatt, 4 to).