The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on their Makers

BREWINGTON, M. V.;

Published by . Salem, Staten Island, Peabody Museum; Maurizio Martino Publishers, [1963], reprint of the first edition, limited to 300 copies [first edition was 1,000 copies].

About this Item

8vo [27 x 18 cm]; xii, 154, [i] pp, 57 plates with frontis, from photos, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean, not issued with a dust jacket. The work, which has become a standard reference work on the subject, describes 413 instruments and 150 instrument makers. Includes quadrants, astrolabes, sextants, circles, artificial horizons, lodestones, compasses, ring dials, nocturnals, sand glasses, chronometers, clocks, dead reckoning recorders, graphic tools, sounders, telescopes, tide calculators, computers, barometers, orreries, planispheres, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on their Makers
• Publisher: . Salem, Staten Island, Peabody Museum; Maurizio Martino Publishers, [1963], reprint of the first edition, limited to 300 copies [first edition was 1,000 copies].
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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