Agrarian Advocate; the bimonthly publication of the California Agrarian Action League (December/January 1986)
Davis, CA: California Agrarian Action Project, 1986. 8p., folded tabloid newspaper; toned, very good. More
Cat.No: 344511
Water Utilization; Pollution
![Cat.No: 303085 The American Society of Dowsers. Treasurer's Report [and] Notice of...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/303085.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683741824)
The American Society of Dowsers. Treasurer's Report [and] Notice of the Annual Meeting of the Members of the American Society of Dowsers, Inc.
Danville, VT: The American Society of Dowsers, Inc., 1980. Ephemera. [1p], [3p.], respectively, 5.5x8.5 inch letters; trifold for mailing, else very good. More
Cat.No: 303085
![Cat.No: 207534 Bomba 'Prat'; caudal de agua, es caudal de oro [cover title]....](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/207534.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1484029885)
Bomba 'Prat'; caudal de agua, es caudal de oro [cover title]. Instrucciones y caracteristicas de la Bomba Prat [caption within]
[Spain]: Bomba Prat, [1950s?]. Pamphlet. 52p., alkaline coated paperstock throughout with numerous vignette engineering drawings and line-drawn specs, softbound in 7.5x5 inch stapled color wraps; cover has pulled away a little from text-block but still holding, initial and terminal leaves slightly foxed with a small light stain, sound and entirely..... More
Cat.No: 207534
CALFED Bay-Delta Program Aunnual Report 2001; California water
Sacramento: CALFED Bay-Delta Program, 2001. Paperback. 74p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with nice color maps, graphs, tables and photos, very good in original color pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 125636
Complimentary Banquet Tendered to Eugene L. Ashley, President, Hudson River Water Power Co. by His Friends.
Saratoga Springs, NY: [publisher not identified], 1903. Ephemera. 2 leaves + 3 pieces of ephemera (a printed silk ribbon, a card, and an invitation), cardstock tied with a red silk ribbon. Very Good. Menu and ephemera related to a dinner given in honor of the industrialist Eugene Lionel Ashley, who..... More
Cat.No: 340772
Concrete exposed to alkali in Los Angeles and vicinity: report by Salisbury, Bradshaw & Taylor, consulting engineers
Los Angeles: Salisbury, Bradshaw & Taylor, 1925. 39p. + large foldout map, numerous site photos, laid in is a typed letter of transmittal from the Western Concrete Pipe Company signed by company secretary J. M. MacAdams, wraps lightly worn else very good in wraps. LA infrastructure such as abutments and..... More
Cat.No: 121707
Consorcio del Puerto Franco de Barcelona: Concurso de Anteproyectos del Puerto Franco de Espana en Barcelona / Concurs d'Avant-Projets du Port Franc de l'Espagne a Barcelone / Competitive Contest of Preliminary Plans for the Construction of The Free Port of Spain in Barcelona [2 volumes]
Barcelona: Consorcio del Puerto Franco de Barcelona, 1927. Volume 1 is 54p., 9.75 inches, lightly worn else very good condition. Volume 2 consists of 11 seperate folded sheets of various sizes in a folder, showing maps of the area where the port is to be constructed, wind-speed diagrams, and other..... More
Cat.No: 250617
Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned - For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to Their Relief - and for the Treatment of Frostbites. As practiced in the United States life-saving service.
Washington DC: GPO, 1909. Pamphlet. 11p., illustrated with modern diagrammatic depictions and one interesting old woodcut. Softbound, a stapled pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed tomato-bisque wraps, an oddly attractive item in nearly-new condition. Tincture of opium, to be used in combination with lime-water and linseed oil, must have been..... More
Cat.No: 305392
Environmental Resources Management Element of the San Mateo General Plan
San Mateo: City of San Mateo, Department of Community Development, December 2, 1974. Variously paginated perhaps totaling sixty pages printed both sides, illustrated by plat maps with spot-color indicators, and a few diagrams. Softbound, landscape format, 8.5x11 inches in plastic comb binding; a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 185079
Etablissements Thermaux; Plombieres, les Bains, Vosges. Saison du 15 Mai au 30 Septembre
no city {Vosges): the spa, or spa collective, no date, circa 1890. 28p., coated alkaline paperstock throughout with presswork in orange and black, profuse b&w photoillustrations, a sewn softbound: cord-fastened pamphlet in 8x4.5 inch grey wraps titled by embossed gilt. Nice copy. Front cover has mild handling signs: a very..... More
Cat.No: 250575
For the man on the land. The Basin Development Committee Report as presented to the National Reclamation Association, 19th annual meeting, November 16-16-17, 1950, Spokane, Washington
San Francisco: Irrigation Districts Association of California, 1950. 11p. staplebound pamphlet, very good, 4x9 inches. Argues for reversal of the trend toward Federal oversight of western water resources. More
Cat.No: 330690
Growing the Grassroots; The First Two Years, Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund
Oakland: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, 2005. 12p., elaborate pamphlet printed in colors on alkaline cardstock-weight paper, staplebound in oblong 8.5x11 inch wraps. A fine copy. More
Cat.No: 229224
Gwion Gwion, Dulwan Mamaa. Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal, Nyawarra [content authors] Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia. [Jeff Doring, narratives editing and observations]
Koln: Konemann, 2000. Hardcover. 336p., heavy coated paperstock with profuse color site, artifact and portrait photography; text is in English, French and German, and has a lengthy glossary of Aborigine appended. First edition openweave orange cloth boards in glossy colorphoto dust jacket, 11.5x10 inches; entirely clean and sound, a fine..... More
Cat.No: 178337
Historia económica de Rio San Juan
[Managua]: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria, [1988]. 257p., wraps, 5.25 x 7.75 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 142902
Imprisoned light! The story of Dr. Hills Potentized Spirulina
Boulder Creek, CA: Journal of Nutritional Microbiology, nd. 31p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; color photos., in very good condition. On the production of Spirulina, an algae super-food produced as a solution to hunger in poverty stricken regions. More
Cat.No: 335924
Irrigation projects
Karachi: Pakistan Publications, 1956. 24p., staplebound pamphlet. Pakistan Moves Forward. Illustrated booklet promoting Pakistan's construction of infrastructure such as pumping stations and tube-wells. More
Cat.No: 125878
![Cat.No: 207896 La Bomba Prat [cover]; Bomba 'Prat,' caudal de agua, es caudal...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/207896.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1484028460)
La Bomba Prat [cover]; Bomba 'Prat,' caudal de agua, es caudal de oro. Premiada con los primeros premios en todas las "exposiciones" [caption within]
[Spain]: Prat, [1950s?]. Pamphlet. [24]p., alkaline coated paperstock throughout with numerous vignette engineering drawings and line-drawn specs, softbound booklet in 6x3.2 inch stapled color wraps (back cover has a nice orange water-tower); bound with a single staple that is quite rusted with a touch of migration, otherwise clean and sound..... More
Cat.No: 207896
Lake Tahoe Environmental Assessment; executive summary, December 1979
Washington: Western Federal Regional Council, Interagency Task Force, 1979. 47p., 8.5x11 inches, maps, figures, tables, photos, illustrations, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 129243
Learning from Tachai in rural China
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1975. 139p., paperback pictorial album, very good. Photographic collection celebrating efforts to copy the success of Tachai, China's model communal farm during the Cultural Revolution. Cover depicts farmers spraying huge quantities of pesticide in a field with a power station in the background. More
Cat.No: 145849
Memoria Sobre Las Instalaciones de la Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona
Barcelona: Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, 1925. 63p. + [34]p. of tables, charts, graphs and maps and [16]p. of photographic plates and one fold-out diagram of the water system oblong booklet in wraps, wraps slightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Cover title: Los Servicios de la..... More
Cat.No: 250493
Mountains, Lakes and Fiords of New Zealand
Wellington: W.A.G. Skinner, Government Printer, Undated, circa 1910. map. Folio leaves of glazed alkaline paper (still bright-white, 9.5x24 inches) printed, folded and stapled to make eight triple-column pages of text that when folded is 9.5x4 inches. Find numerous b&w photos reasonably well-reproduced amidst pretty printers' ornaments, while the outer layer..... More
Cat.No: 227257
Official Proceedings of the Nineteenth Session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress held at San Francisco, California October 6, 7, 8. 9 and 10, 1908
San Francisco: Calkins Publishing House, 1908. Hardcover. 282p., frontis, by-laws & rules, addresses, report, photos, tables, lightly worn first edition in brick red cloth boards, small chip in spine panel at the joint. More
Cat.No: 213648
Port of Oakland. The Shipping Machine
Oakland: Port of Oakland Headquarters, [1995]. 9x12 inch pictorial tri-fold folder with 12 8.5x11 inch sheets inlaid discussing local political questions on water, wetlands, and dredging in or near the ports and one brochure. Very good. More
Cat.No: 347869
Porter: Beauty, Utility & Durability, from Wood, Stone & Metal.
Menlo Park CA: Porter Bathroom, n.d., circa 2010. Paperback. 208p., a small elaborate catalogue of bath wares, cabinets and lighting, tubs and containers, but curiously no toilets. Includes color swatch, overlaid imagery, an internal cloth backstrip, color exhibit photography, a special info-card laid in, all bells and whistles in good..... More
Cat.No: 292598
Reclamation: Home Creating, Wealth Producing, Self Sustaining. Reclamation represents homes, livelihood for 900,000 persons [&c &c], irrigation, flood control, power, recreation
Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, [c1940]. Pamphlet. Single leaf of glazed alkaline stock folded four times to make an upright 8.5x3.5 inch promotional brochure for federal spending on water projects. Printed with b&w photos mingled with texts and tables. Some intersecting fold-lines are a...... More
Cat.No: 228249