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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003557041
Book Description 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 278 pp., illustrations, 22 cm. Notes; Contains lists of 18th and 19th century instrument makers. Bibliography: pp. 268-271. Subjects; Physical instruments History. Collectors and collecting. Scientific apparatus and instruments. Science history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 386338
Book Description 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 278 pp., illustrations, 22 cm. Notes; Contains lists of 18th and 19th century instrument makers. Bibliography: pp. 268-271. Subjects; Physical instruments History. Collectors and collecting. Scientific apparatus and instruments. Science history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 386338
Book Description 278p., b/w illus., dj. Seller Inventory # 051746
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0715363549-2-3
Book Description Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within. Seller Inventory # bk0715363549xvz189zvxacp
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Clothbound hardcover first edition with dust jacket, all in fine condition. Seller Inventory # 090280
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 278 pages, 127 illustrations, 1974. A good introduction to the wide range of scientific instruments made and their purpose. The appendices list instrument makers in eighteenth-century Britain and America as well as those working in London in 1843 and 1894. Good copy with dust jacket (very faded to spine). Seller Inventory # K2482
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 278, [2 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 136mm. Illustrated. Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Surveying Instruments; Navigational Instruments; Dials; Telescopes; Spheres and Orreries; Microscopes; Barometers; Thermometers; Precision Balances; Drawing Instruments; Surgical Instruments; Materials and Manufacture of Scientific Instruments; Cleaning and Renovation of Scientific Instruments; Glossary of Scientific Instruments; Notes on Prices; Eighteenth-Century Instrument Makers; Scientific-Instrument Makers of London in 1843 and 1894; Bibliography; Index. "Scientific instruments were made to do a job: planned obsolecence, ornament and fripperies were alien to the instrument-making elite, skilled in the working of brass, the basic material of these instruments. - from dust-jacket blurb. Seller Inventory # 23370