Tool and Material Reference Books

Its history, form and function

A craftsman's guide to wood technology

By Peter Walsh, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology

Translated from the Latin original of 1556

Published late 1920s by Maine Hardwood Assn. and Maine Forest Service

Collection of plates on the sciences, the liberal arts, and the mechanical arts with their explanations - carpenter, saddler and coachbuilder

Published by Roger K. Smith, supplement to PATAMPIA I & II

A history from antiquity to the 17th Century

More than 50 categories not usually found in similar books:  hand tools, beekeeping, blacksmithing, masonry, wagon making, farm equipment, foundry, printing, railroad, sawmill, tinsmithing and more. Softbound, 256 pages, very good condition. 

A manual for the woodworker; a guide for the enthusiast.

1994, more than 500 patent drawings, plus indexes. Softbound, as new.

By Herbert & Emil Pollak