Collecting and Restoring Scientific Instruments Tapa dura - 1974

David & Charles, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. H/B 278 pages condition is very good, this is an ex library book with the usual stamps. An owners name to the flyleaf.

Newton Abbot [Eng.] : David & Charles, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover. 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.

Newton Abbot & London: David & Charles, 1974. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper has loss to the head of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (1 kg); 278pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & white photographs; Black & white drawings; Diagrams; Glossary; ISBN: 0-715-36354-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #183878|| Condition:

Newton Abbot, London: David & Charles, 1974. 278p., b/w illus., dj.

London: Davie & Charles. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 0715363549 . 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… Leer más

David & Charles, 1974-05-30. Hardcover. Good.