Practical Descriptive Geometry, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 253 Pp. Black Cloth. Firt Edition Stated. Very Near Fine. With Publisher's Letter To Cal Tech Professor Howell Newbold Tyson, And With Tyson's Ownership Signature In Pencil.

Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First edition. Folio. vii (i), 264 (27)pp. Original green cloth with black lettering and vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Original technical drawing on front free endpaper. Work on "graphical science" containing chapters on Fundamental principles of Graphic Science, Technical Free-Hand Sketching and Lettering, The Choice and use of Drawing Instruments, Kinds and Significations of Lines, The Irregular Curve, Brush Tinting, Free-Hand Lettering, The Blue-Print Process, orthographic Projections. Descriptive Geometry of Monge, Monge's Descriptive Geometry, Trihedrals, Map Projection, Shades and Shadows, Linear perspective, Oblique or Clinographic Projections, Working Drawings of Bridge Post Connection, Working Drawings of Standard 100-lb. Rail and of Allan-Richardson Slide Valve. Profusely illustrated with one two-color lithograph and and abundance of in-text technical drawings. Illustrated appendices at rear, incl. Nomenclature and Double Generation of Trochoids, Alphabets and Ornamental Devices for Titles and general index. Some wear along edges of binding, light fraying at head and tail of spine, four inch closed tear at top of front joint. Some water staining of front cover and rubbed. Starting at inside front cover. One and a half inch closed tear at bottom of ffp and creasing at right lower corner. Top right corner with closed tear. No. 50 in alphabet appendix with ten of the letters cut out affecting No. 46 on verso. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Frederick Newton Willson (illustrator). First edition. The first American edition of this very scarce study on mechanical drawing and geometry by Frederick Newton Willson, with many illustrations and diagrams throughout. The first American edition. First published in the UK by the Princeton Press.Illustrated with many monochrome vignettes and one colour plate.This very scarce work was written by Frederick Newton Willson. The work provides a study on geometric and mechanical drawing, covering topics such as the use of materials, drawing the helix, conic sections and curves, shading, perspectives and much more.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, generally smart with fading to the spine, rubbing to the extremities and joints, wear and small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine, a slight lean, and marks to the boards. Front hinge tender, rear hinge tender after the last index page. Internally, the first page of the index disbound but present, otherwise generally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages with the odd handling mark only. Good. book.