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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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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 & Bridges7 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

California Paintings: Sale 4388P, October 10, 1990

Die Moderne Plastik in Deutschland: Sammlung Illustrierter Monographien 10

Surface Circulation in the Gulf of Maine as Deduced from Drift Bottles

A Study of the Disposal of Chemical Waste at Sea

Amphibians and Reptiles Observed Enroute to Hoover Dam

Vasarely

Iqbal: Poet-Philosopher of Pakistan

Leigh: The Historical Past of a Lancashire Borough

The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939

Nepal: The Discovery of the Malla

The Sons of Adam: Stories of Somalia

Pay Dirt: Farming & Gardening with Composts

Japanese Women Speak: A Message from the Christian Women of Japan to the Christian Women of America

Third Western States Exhibition

Wicked: A New Musical, The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. Souvenir Book

Lush & Efficient: A Guide to Gardening in the Coachella Valley

Pavilion of French Indo-China, 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island

La Venta Inn Palos Verdes Estates: Archive of 65 Unused Promotional Postcards and Directions Cards

SAIC Printmedia MFA Exhibition Catalog 2014

Hella Jongerius

Doll Collectors Manual 1964

Oregon Wool and Mohair Growers Cooperative Association: An Archive of Five Pieces from E. Derry of Albany, Oregon, 1921-1922

Cedarburg 1946-1964: Photographs

American Paintings: Sale 4409P, November 7, 1990

American and California Paintings and Sculpture: Sale 6144D, December 13, 1994

American and California Paintings and Sculpture: Sale 7076D, December 9, 1999

California and American Paintings: Sale 5715D, December 8, 1993

Fine American, European and Contemporary Prints: Sales 4894K and 4895L, June 10 and 11, 1992

American Paintings and Sculpture: Sale 5190H, December 9, 1992

American Paintings and Sculpture: Sale 4851H, April 1, 1992

California, Western and American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

La Progenie de Morelos

To Illuminate Our Time: The Blacklisted Teleplays of Abraham Polonsky

How to Choose Music for Amateur Films

Bardi M.: Un paese meraviglioso

Lifestyle Art Project Thailand: The Art of a Travel Experience

Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century

Enthullungen: Recherchen, Reportagen und Reden vor Gericht

Advertising in the 50's: Postcard Box, 30 Postcards

A Day at the Seaside: San Francisco's Sutro Heights, Cliff House, and Sutro Baths

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