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The best bookshops invite you to wander. Epilonian is a carefully built collection of books with character—scholarly, beautiful, peculiar, overlooked, and sometimes impossible to categorize.

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Machines& Making

Begin with a machine, a material, or a practical question. Wander from workshop manuals to aviation, railways, industrial design, mining, automobiles, and the sea.

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Engineering Practice14 books Tools & Workshops3 books Metals & Welding3 books Industrial Design10 books Railways & Bridges8 books Aviation & Flight19 books Automobiles & Motoring19 books Mining & Geology27 books Maritime Engineering9 books

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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

The American Film Institute Salute to William Wyler: 1976 Life Achievement Award Press Kit

Sheffielder: A Life in the City

50 Neds: Ned Kelly, Icon of Australian Art

Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers

The Swedenborg Epic: The Life and Works of Emanuel Swedenborg

Surveying, Book III (No. 322C)

Mapping, Parts 1-2 (No. 323C)

Elements of Statics, Parts 1-2 (No. 325)

Walschaert and Baker Valve Gears (No. 504C)

Elements of Photogrammetry (No. 306)

True Meridian and Law for Surveyors (No. 292)

Boiler Details, Pipes and Fittings (No. 229B)

Gages, Jigs, and Fixtures (No. 190D)

Bench Work, Parts 1-2 (No. 186)

Grinding Equipment and Practice (No. 184)

Grinding Equipment and Practice (No. 184)

Milling-Machine Practice and Work (No. 183)

Milling Machines and Equipment (No. 182)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Lathe Work, Book III (No. 179)

Drilling Machines and Practice (No. 176)

Drilling Machines and Practice (No. 176)

Oh! What a Pal Was Mary

Oh Baby (Don't Say No - Say Maybe)

I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)

Somebody Knows (And Somebody Cares)

Dve Srdecka (Two Hearts)

Old New England Moon

Oh! How She Lied (To Me)

An Old Guitar and an Old Refrain (A Song of Spain)

Pal-O (I Miss You Most of All)

Someone Is Losin' Susan (with Ukulele Arrangement)

You Taught Me To Care (Song)

Por Caminos del Peru (Hermanos Maristas, Lima, 1958)

Turing No. 78/357: Istanbul in the World Press (Turkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Belleteni)

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