Category: Scientific Instruments

Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

By: Bedini, Silvio A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution : 1964

Seller ID: 16340

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

With biographies of makers and 85 illustrations.
184pp 0.85lb 9.3x6.2x0.4in
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The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on Their Makers

By: Brewington, M. V.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Salem, MA, Peabody Museum : 1963

Seller ID: 10575

ISBN-13: 9781888262001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

reprint edition 1991, limited to 300 copies.
413 instruments are described, several of which are illustrated on 56 plates. Contains notes on instrument makers, dealers, and designers.
154pp 1.59lb 10.5x7.3x0.8in
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Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

By: Dekker, Elly

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1999

Seller ID: 29056

ISBN-13: 9780198565598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

in slipcase.
With 120 color and 700 black and white illustrations.
592pp 7.30lb 13.2x10.0x1.9in
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Globes from the Western World

By: Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Zwemmer : 1993

Seller ID: 25625

ISBN-13: 9780302006184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

faint scratches to back panel of dust jacket. Dust jacket in clear protector.
This informative study is the most comprehensive in English since Dr. Stevenson's publication of 1921. Numerous color and monochrome illustrations accompanied by explanatory captions make this book invaluable for museum curators, instrument dealers and collectors.
183pp 2.97lb 11.3x9.8x0.8in
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Geared to the Stars: The Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries and Astronomical Clocks

By: King, Henry C. and John R. Millburn

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1978

Seller ID: 16469

ISBN-13: 9780802023124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

dust jacket lightly rubbed at extremities. Dust jacket in clear protector.
With 333 illustrations.
442pp 3.99lb 11.3x8.8x1.2in
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Scales and Weights: A Historical Outline

By: Kisch, Bruno

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press : 1965

Seller ID: 14696

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

library discard, dust jacket spine with shadow from label removal. Dust jacket in clear protector.
With 98 illustrations, 10 charts, 14 tables, and 3 appendices.
297pp 2.23lb 10.2x7.4x1.2in
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Old Globes in the Netherlands

By: Krogt, Peter van der

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Utrecht, HES Uitgevers : 1984

Seller ID: 15512

ISBN-13: 9789061942344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

slight crease along bottom edge of front panel of dust jacket. Dust jacket in clear protector.
In this catalogue almost 340 Netherlandish globes, made before 1850, are described at length. Among other aspects, the sphere itself, the inscriptions, the cartography and its mounting receive attention. What is more, the descriptions are illustrated with some 80 photographs, of which 9 are in color.
290pp 2.20lb 9.7x7.2x1.1in
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The Billings Microscope Collection

By: Purtle, Helen R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology : 1967

Seller ID: 15203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

#183 of 1000 copies; light foxing to top edge of text block, spotting to rear cover.
Profusely illustrated.
210pp 2.12lb 10.7x8.2x0.6in
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Marine Navigation Instruments

By: Randier, Jean

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1980

Seller ID: 17258

ISBN-13: 9780719537332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust jacket in clear protector.
With 244 illustrations and several color plates.
219pp 2.67lb 11.1x8.6x1.0in
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The Makers of Surveying Instruments in America Since 1700 (2 volumes in 1)

By: Smart, Charles E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Troy, NY, Regal Art Press : 1967

Seller ID: 28700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

later edition, 2 volumes in 1; library discard, spine slightly sunned, name on first page, library stamp to edges of text block, discard stamp and barcode sticker inside back cover.
Published by Regal Art Press, Troy, New York, two volumes bound as one: Volume I (1962), xxiv + 182 pages; Volume II (1967), xxv-xxvi + pages 183 - 282.
282pp 1.73lb 9.2x6.5x1.3in
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The Makers of Surveying Instruments in America Since 1700, Volumes I & II

By: Smart, Charles E.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Troy, NY, Regal Art Press : 1967

Seller ID: 22848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

appears unread.
Published by Regal Art Press, Troy, New York, two volume set: Volume I (1962), xxiv + 182 pages; Volume II (1967), xxv-xxvi + pages 183 - 282.
282pp 1.98lb 9.4x6.4x1.3in
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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments

By: Turner, Gerard L'E.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1983

Seller ID: 16686

ISBN-13: 9780520051607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

1st US edition; dust jacket spine slightly darkened. Dust jacket in clear protector.
The first book to deal with the vast range of instruments and apparatus made and used during the exciting years of the nineteenth century, when modern science came of age. The varied, intricate, and often beautiful apparatus used in research and teaching during this important period is set in its scientific and historical context, and illustrated with over 440 plates of examples from European collections and contemporary engravings, including 30 color plates.
320pp 3.66lb 11.1x9.0x1.3in
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Scientific Instruments

By: Wynter, Harriet and Anthony Turner

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1975

Seller ID: 15210

ISBN-13: 9780684144719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust jacket in clear protector.
With 285 illustrations, a few in color.
239pp 2.97lb 12.1x8.6x1.0in
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Deutsche und Niederlandische Astronomische Instrumente des 11. - 18. Jahrhunderts

By: Zinner, Ernst

Price: $250.00

Publisher: München, C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung : 1967

Seller ID: 15424

ISBN-13: 9783406033018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

reprinted 1979; dust jacket slightly yellowed on spine. Dust jacket in clear protector.
The standard work on German and Netherlandish astronomical instruments from the 11th through the 18th centuries. With 13 illustrations in the text and 169 illustrations on 80 black and white plates. Text in German.
689pp 2.90lb 9.4x6.6x1.8in
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Category: Scientific Instruments