FIRST EDITION. Tall 8 vo. Orig. cloth. (8), (5)-53, (1, blank), 34, (1, blank), (1, colophon) pp. Twenty-four lithographed plates, 5 folding and 17 colored. Publisher's ad for James' works mounted on the front pastedown. Fading to the cloth; a very good copy. A useful and impressively illustrated manual on meteorological instruments by Colonel Sir Henry James (1803-77) of the Royal Engineers. Illustrated instruments are: hydrometer, marine barometers, ozone test apparatus, improved anemometer, rain gauges, Regnault's improved thermometer, Daniell's hygrometer, maximum/minimum thermometers, standard thermometer, and barometers. Many of these are signed by Casella, London. Only one copy in N.U.C.

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Title: Instructions for taking meteorological observations; with tables for their correction, and notes on meteorological Phenomena
Publisher: London: printed by E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1860
Publication Date: 1860
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The ANTIQUARIAN SCIENTIST (285 Main Road, Westhampton, MA 01027 USA; antiqsci@comcast.net), established in 1976, specializes in rare books in science, medicine, and technology. In addition, we offer antique scientific instruments, and appraisals and collection development in these specialty areas. Thus far we have published forty-two illustrated and annotated catalogues. We also co-published the print journal "Rittenhouse" which is devoted to the history of the scientific instrument enterprise in America. We are members of SNEAB and numerous professional societies relating to books, instruments, and the history of science and medicine. It has always been our policy to provide to our clients professional quality services.

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