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Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Karen Kippen, Robb Kramer, and Donald Montoya, (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. [2], 46, plus covers. Illustrations (color). Acronyms. The MaRIE Core Team included Cris Barnes, Mark Bourke, Pat Colestock, Micheline Devaurs, Paul Dunn, John Erickson, Dave Funk, Turab Lookman, T. Mark McCleskey, Don Rej, Rich Sheffield, Jack Shlachter, Michael Stevens, John Tapia, David Teter, Bob Webster, and John Wills. Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes (MaRIE): MaRIE will provide a capability to address the control of performance and production of materials at the mesoscale. MaRIE fills a critical gap in length scale between studies conducted at the integral scale at DARHT and U1a, and at the atomic scale at NIF and Z. MaRIE (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes) is designed to support key NNSA goals to understand the condition of the nuclear stockpile and to extend the life of U.S. nuclear warheads. When combined with the emerging computational capability to simulate materials at ultrahigh resolution, MaRIE will fill the gap in understanding of micro- and mesoscale materials phenomena and how they affect weapon performance. Extreme Conditions: The ability to predict how micro- and mesoscale materials properties evolve under weapons-relevant extreme conditions (including aging) and impact performance. NEW MATERIALS: The ability to predict the microstructure of new materials (or those resulting from new manufacturing processes) and how that will affect weapons performance. A key characteristic of MaRIE is the ability to simultaneously apply several in situ diagnostics to observe transient phenomena at high resolution, in real time, under weapons relevant extreme conditions. Of highest significance are subgranular resolution measurements of phase transformations, heterogeneity, and strength of materials in samples that have been well characterized. The resulting data will be used to build new, or inform existing, high-fidelity materials models for weapons simulation codes. These data are particularly aimed at understanding the behavior of high explosives and plutonium as they apply to implosion dynamics and initial conditions for boost. New understanding will increase confidence in the performance prediction of life-extended weapons and in the success of any technical response to a change in the deterrent imposed by budget realities or external pressures.

Folio, (295mm.), p.(189-)214. +4p commercial adverts. A large engraving on the front cover and 38 engravings throughout the text. Original self-wrappers, extreme fore-edges slightly frayed. Containing a short proposal for the construction of a railway bridge across the English Channel by John G. Winton with a large cross-section engraving on the front cover - a proposal perhaps no less ridiculous than Boris Johnson's similar idea ridiculed by An engineering expert in The Conversation of 19 January, 2018.

Zustand: Good. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover. The contents are bound into a red stiff-paper file folder with a red plastic binder. A rectangular keyhole reveals the title on the first page of the report. The publisher's name is printed in gilt at bottom right. The binding is warped from improper storage. There is a tear & crease to the top edge of the keyhole. The corners & top edges of the folder are lightly creased. [1], i-iv, 43 pages and 8 diagrams & 1 plate. Good. First editionFairchild Systems was a United States defense contractor. The San Francisco Chronicle described the company as "one of the legendary names of Silicon Valley" and noted that its Bay Area operations were a training ground for the engineers who went on to found Intel and other top semiconductor companies.The authors write: "Recently, several high resolution, real time electronic photographic systems have appeared,some only in the development stage, but others as actual hardware. Some of these acquire data on a line-by-line basis and, therefore, present new problems of image distortion not encountered in frame type photography. It is the purpose of this study, herein proposed, to examine these problems, simulate their effects and develop techniques for reassembling the data into undistorted imagery.Mounted on the front of the folder is the address label of Edward Willett who worked as an engineer at Fairchild Systems.

Folio (375 x 250 mm), 2 conjugate leaves print on 3 sides only, at some time folded, a couple of small closed tears otherwise very good. "It is proposed to establish a Company, to be called "The Leicestershire Fire Insurance Company," which shall have for its object the grating Policies of Insurance from loss by Fire, in any part of Great Britain, though it is not disguised that the support mainly looked for in the first instance is that of the County of Leicester and the adjacent districts." Phoenix House, located at the bottom of New Walk, is the oldest surviving fire station in Leicester. It was built in 1842 for the Leicestershire Fire Insurance Company. It was designed by William Flint in the Greek Revival style of architecture, complete with fluted Ionic columns flanking a central entrance. In 1843 the Leicestershire company was bought out by the Sun Fire Insurance, who based their fire brigade at the building. Not found on JISC.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Karl VI Holy Roman Emperor (1711- 40). Verfassung eines Regiments Cavallerie nach dem Kayserlichen Fuß. German calligraphic manuscript on watermarked paper penned in brown ink in a neat large gothic hand. [Western Germany c1730]. Folio (324 x 211mm). [2 blank] leaves + [ 8] pages of preliminaries including title, 3-page preface and 3-page chapter index + 348 numbered text pages + [54 blank] leaves. 28 lines of text to a page. Margins ruled in pencil. Watermark: imperial double eagle with large heart beneath crown and letters MM. Contemporary half calf, decorative baroque pattern paper boards, rubbed; remains of ties; fullpage contemporary armorial engraved bookplate of Christian August von Geldern showing two lions rampant under a baronial crown (engraved area : 170 x135mm; monogram 'wijon.fec.col') pasted inside frontcover; corners worn. Detailed manuscript draft for the formation of an imperial cavalry regiment divided into 30 paragraphs, setting out the structure and personel, their duties and regulations. In his introductory preface the anonymous writer distinguishes between light cavalry such as hussars, or light skirmishers (for reconnaissance & surprise attacks in flank and rear), dragoons, or mounted infantry, and cuirassiers, or heavy cavalry with big horses. He refers to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), the first armed conflict in which Britain played a major role in European affairs fought to establish a balance of power. The manuscript was compiled during a period of standardization across European armies when attempts were made to enforce uniformity in the imperial army under Prince Eugene of Savoy by imposing general rules regarding the training and formation of the various units then mostly active during the Turkish wars. Prince Eugene had distinguished himself by commanding a cavalry brigade at the battle of Mohacs in 1687. The first owner, Christian August von Geldern (1702-1768), lived at Castle Bachem in the Rhenish Palatinate. Duplicate release stamp of Library of the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach on blank verso of title.

Kleines s/w-Originalporträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert (small b/w-portrait photo, signed by american flag designer).

Excellent. 4 manuscript maps on waxed fabric. 3 measure 12.5 x 20.5 inches and the 4th measures 8.25 x 16 inches. Size 12.5 x 20.5 Inches. This is a 1916 - 1917 set of manuscript proposed plans by renowned urban planner T. Kennard Thomson to alleviate congestion at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, Manhattan. The plans were developed for the 5th Avenue Association and Save New York, an organization that at this very time was championing some of the earliest urban zoning laws in the United States. A Closer Look Located only two blocks from Grand Central Terminal in one direction and Times Square in the other, and sitting at the northeast corner of the block containing the New York Public Library (now the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the same) and Bryant Park, 5th Ave. and 42nd St. was and remains a busy interchange. The problem addressed by Thomson's designs would be familiar to anyone standing at that intersection during rush hour today, namely, automobile traffic and the competition for space between automobiles, pedestrians, and everything in between. In Thomson's time, this included some remnant horses and carriages as well as street cars, specifically the 42nd St. crosstown electrified streetcar, which was part of the Third Avenue Railway, suggested but not explicitly mentioned in the first image above near letters E and F. Here, Thomson lays out a series of possibilities to alleviate congestion, all of which involve open cuts to allow for underpasses or overpasses for traffic bypassing 5th Ave. Thomson was an enthusiast of layering streets according to different functions - the present plans are a precursor to his much more ambitious plan in the late 1920s for a four-levelled distribution along major streets to divide automobile, train, and pedestrian traffic (see below). The open cut method was far less expensive than building subways or proper tunnels (Thomson was a skeptic and critic of the subway system, thinking it too expensive and incapable of meeting the city's soaring mass transit demands). The first two images are different representations of the same idea, with open cuts descending at a 5 percent grade along 42nd St on either side of 5th Ave., allowing traffic not turning on to 5th Ave. to continue apace via a brief underpass, with lanes outside of the 'tunnels' for traffic turning on to 5th Ave. 'Plan B' is a similar proposal but with offset tunnels, presumably to better allow for traffic turning north onto 5th Ave. coming from the west along 42nd St. (although today a one-way street heading south, 5th Ave. had two-way traffic until 1966). 'Plan C' creates 'Footway tunnels' under 42nd St. to allow pedestrians to move about without having to cross the roads above. The 'New Subway Station' referred to here is indeed today's 42nd Street - Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station on the IRT Flushing Line (now the 7 Train), which had opened between Grand Central and Queens in 1915. The extension to Times Square was already being planned in 1916 but the station at 5th Ave. was not completed until 1926 due to various constraints; to give a sense of the demand for public transit along the corridor between Grand Central and Times Square, this extension of the IRT Flushing Line was in addition to the 42nd St. streetcar mentioned above and the 42nd St. Shuttle (now the S Train), which went into service in 1918, utilizing part of an existing line that had been in operation since 1904. Kennard Thomson's Ambitious Urban Plans In the early 20th century, Manhattan faced many of the same challenges as today - limited space, soaring real estate values, overpopulation, and gridlock traffic congestion. Kennard Thomson believed that engineering would come to the rescue. His solutions, including tiered avenues (as here, and more extensively in our NoMoreSubways-kennardthomson-1927) and massive landfills (NewManhattan-kennardthomson-1930), were novel and futuristic but in no way the crackpot fantasies of a maverick vision.

Very good. Light wear along original folds. Size 20.75 x 14 Inches. A unique discovery! This map produced during the 1932 Sino-Japanese conflict over Shanghai by Henry Monsel Cumine. It is accompanied by a 'private and confidential' plan, addressed to a French admiral, to end the conflict and establish Shanghai as a demilitarized zone. A Closer Look Presenting the city of Shanghai and its hinterland, from the Yangtse (Yangzi) River to the borders of Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, this map notes administrative boundaries, roads, railways, waterways, hills, and other features, including communications stations, parks, county seats (hsien), and the 'Poo Sung Aerodrome,' today's Hongqiao International Airport. Produced during a brief but intense conflict between China and Japan, the map uses red overprint to highlight Chapei (Zhabei) District, where most of the fighting took place. Two additional maps appear on the verso, one depicting the wider region around Shanghai, including Nanking (Nanjing), Hangchow (Hangzhou), and Ningpo (Ningbo), emphasizing railways in particular. An inset at left presents East Asia, emphasizing the extent of the Japanese Empire and Republic of China. A Plan for Peace The accompanying plan booklet is a proposal, apparently unsolicited by either of the belligerents, to declare Greater Shanghai a demilitarized zone and establish a multinational administrative system. These aims were not purely idealistic since the International Settlement already maintained a multinational police force and had previously operated a 'Mixed Court' including Chinese officials to adjudicate disputes involving Chinese nationals. At the same time, the document reflects the attitudes of the multinational business community in Shanghai, who were usually able to overcome political disputes to pursue their common interests, rather than political leaders outside of Shanghai whose agreement would be necessary to enact such an agreement. In reality, the situation in Shanghai and throughout China was changing in a way that made such cooperation impossible. The increasingly powerful Chinese Nationalist government based in Nanjing was not about to surrender control of the Greater Shanghai Municipality, which it had spent the preceding years developing, largely as a precursor to an expected future return of the foreign concessions to Chinese sovereignty. The Japanese, including the Japanese business community, were also increasingly unwilling to compromise as their numbers and influence in China increased. To their minds, the old Anglo-American elite of Shanghai was conspiring to limit their growing interests in the city, leaving them to suffer the brunt of a Chinese anti-imperialist backlash. Regardless, Japan's civilian government was becoming increasingly ineffective in the face of intense nationalism, with the Japanese military forces occupying parts of China forming the core of ultranationalist secret societies looking to do away with civilian government altogether and push for further gains in China. In the end, it is unclear if the plan (dated March 21), signed by 'An International Group of Shanghai Residents,' exerted any influence on the peace negotiations, but the ceasefire agreement signed on May 5 did follow the basic premise of demilitarizing the city outlined here. An Esteemed Provenance As the title page of the booklet indicates, this example of the administrative plan belonged to Admiral (Octave Benjamin) Herr (1873 - 1964), the commander of French military forces in Shanghai and simultaneously commander of the division navale d'Extrême-Orient. Herr had only recently been dispatched to Shanghai in an effort to assert the French government's authority in the French Concession, which was effectively under the control of the Shanghai Green Gang, an extremely powerful mafia that oversaw the city's opium, gambling, and prostitution industries. The relatively weak French concession authorities had entered into a pacte avec le dia.

Very good. Two manuscript diagrams on paper, a third one surveyor's linen. 'No More Subways' map measures 18 x 17 in. 'Eliminate Subways' measures 13 x 25.5 in. 'Untitled Diagram' measures 19.5 x 17.75 in. Size 18 x 17 Inches. These are the original 1927-1931 manuscript illustrations for T. Kennard Thomson's No More Subways initiative, intended to solve New York City's out-of-control traffic congestion. In line with the car-centric ideologies of Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), Thomson's plan called for the replacement of subways with segregated tiered roads, railroad tracks, and highways along New York's major avenues. No More Subways In the early 20th century, Manhattan faced many of the same challenges as today - limited space, soaring real estate values, overpopulation, and gridlock traffic congestion. Kennard Thomson believed that engineering would come to the rescue. His solutions, including tiered avenues (here) and massive landfills (NewManhattan-kennardthomson-1930), were novel and futuristic but in no way the crackpot fantasies of a maverick visionary. Kennard Thomson was a highly respected engineer, having pioneered innovations in pneumatic caissons, worked on countless major urban infrastructure projects, and spoke regularly at the American Society of Civil Engineers. His solutions for New York's traffic problems, Real Rapid Transit , was published in the Port of New York, Harbor and Marine Review (Vol. 6, January 1927), MANHATTAN'S traffic facilities have failed completely to meet its traffic needs. At vast expense new subways are being built and planned whose completion will find traffic jams practically unchanged from present intolerable conditions. Subways fail utterly to meet our growing passenger traffic needs and will continue to fail. For Manhattan already they are archaic. Yet their cost is a fearful and growing drain upon New York's resources impoverishing the whole Greater City without remedying appreciably our acute need of adequate passenger transportation facilities. A revolution in surface facilities also is needed to provide adequately for the ever-growing pedestrian and vehicular traffic, now so dense as constantly to menace and too frequently destroy human life, while threatening a vehicular deadlock on the long stretches of our busiest avenues. 'As for the Subways,' Dr. Thomson wrote, 'they should never have been built. They cost so much and take so long to build - that no matter how many we build we shall never have enough.' A Closer Look The proposal consists of three mansucript schematics. Two dating to 1927, and a third from 1931. The two primary maps, drawn in pencil and inked over on paper, offer transverse sections showing the proposed tiered road and rail system. Kennard Thomson planned the levels to encompass the full width of the avenues, using buildings on either side as partial supports. The system would have effectively segregated pedestrians from commercial and private traffic, as well as from local and express trains (not, mind you, Subways). These schematics also illustrate access points from nearby ground-level avenues and his method of integrating shopfronts. The third plan, compiled several years later in 1931, is a manuscript on surveyor's linen, with pastedown labels. The schematic expands on Kennard's system and hints at his futuristic plans for New York. Note the tall central building, measuring a whopping 2000 feet in height, some 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building (1450 ft), completed in the same year this schematic was drawn (April 11, 1931). It also includes more detail regarding sewers and electrical lines, and adds a new 'auto speedway' level. Publication History and Census These are Kennard Thomson's original manuscript plans. The primary image, 'No More Subways,' was published in Port of New York, Harbor, and Marine Review (Vol. 6, January 1927). The first two images, on paper, were drawn in 1927. The third image, while representing the same plan, was drawn i.