Five Years of Historical Technology
Published by Historical Technology Press, Marblehead, MA, 1987
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co., Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.Ten Pound Island Book Co.
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Condition: Used
US$ 500.00
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Marblehead, MA: Historical Technology Press, 1978 - 1987. 4to. Three vols. of variously paginated catalogs. b/w ills. The set brought 294 GPB at Sotheby's 1992 "Literature and Scientific Instruments" sale. Moskowitz was a retired engineer who turned his hobby of collecting scientific instruments into a pioneering business. He was quite a success and his catalogs (which include books and charts as well as instruments) stretched over nine years and twenty-nine catalogs. This collection is complete, and represents a goldmine of information as well as "good old days" prices and items Well over 1000 pages of catalogs here, tidily bound in red buckram. The lot.
Seller Inventory # 38202
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Five Years of Historical Technology
- Author
- (Moskowitz, Saul)
- Publisher
- Historical Technology Press, Marblehead, MA
- Publication year
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
Ten Pound Island Book Co.
Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.
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