Went on a bit of a book buying spree today and over the last week or so. Science and engineering is of course the focus, along with the occasional old cook book
I don't think I am out more than £15 for all you see there, and a chunk of that was because I decided to give more to a couple round the corner selling some of the engineering books than they were asking (the pile on the right they wanted £2 for but I went for £5). The engineering drawing book though is amazing -- I am not one for CAD or design but this thing is almost more applied engineering (albeit for 1964 and started earlier), its section on gears is possibly one of the best I have read. A few of those maths ones (the spines having vanished) are late 1800s as well which is going to make for interesting reading, I don't think I have ever really gone back that far in seeing how and what maths was taught. Probably the usual story of some old guy died and books went to an auction, in this case it seemed to be some old Polish speaking (there were some lovely looking old Polish story books in the boxes but I don't speak/read it and don't care to dip my toe into the reseller pond) very religious chemical/geological engineer I guess that came up in the 1920s though 1940s, so possibly a family.
On a related note does anybody know why 1960s books have the sleeve the opposite way around? Every other book I have has either so you can read it normally when it is standing up or if the front cover is facing up then the spine is the right way up, seemingly not some of those though.
I will however have to figure out somewhere to store them all as things are getting pretty packed around here
Oh and however many years on this is I finally got a little screen for my projector for £2. Actually a nice sparkly projector sheet which is nice, however I am going to need to clean it up first.
I was proud of myself too as I managed to resist the temptation to get more auger bits, for months there were none and now there are loads of nice ones.
I don't think I am out more than £15 for all you see there, and a chunk of that was because I decided to give more to a couple round the corner selling some of the engineering books than they were asking (the pile on the right they wanted £2 for but I went for £5). The engineering drawing book though is amazing -- I am not one for CAD or design but this thing is almost more applied engineering (albeit for 1964 and started earlier), its section on gears is possibly one of the best I have read. A few of those maths ones (the spines having vanished) are late 1800s as well which is going to make for interesting reading, I don't think I have ever really gone back that far in seeing how and what maths was taught. Probably the usual story of some old guy died and books went to an auction, in this case it seemed to be some old Polish speaking (there were some lovely looking old Polish story books in the boxes but I don't speak/read it and don't care to dip my toe into the reseller pond) very religious chemical/geological engineer I guess that came up in the 1920s though 1940s, so possibly a family.
On a related note does anybody know why 1960s books have the sleeve the opposite way around? Every other book I have has either so you can read it normally when it is standing up or if the front cover is facing up then the spine is the right way up, seemingly not some of those though.
I will however have to figure out somewhere to store them all as things are getting pretty packed around here
Oh and however many years on this is I finally got a little screen for my projector for £2. Actually a nice sparkly projector sheet which is nice, however I am going to need to clean it up first.
I was proud of myself too as I managed to resist the temptation to get more auger bits, for months there were none and now there are loads of nice ones.
