Issued by the British Optical Instruments manufacturers' Assocition
by DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Schilde, Belgium
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About This Item
London,: Constable,, 1921.. xii, 335 pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm.). Original cloth (slightly dust soiled and rubbed). With a frontispiece and 157 plates. ¶ The rare original edition of a valuable work, illustrating 313 kinds of scientific instruments. This book is not only a means of information and reference respecting scientific instruments of every description, but also exhibits the great variety of such instruments that were produced in Great Britain during the first decades of the 20th century. --(Last 30 leaves have some fainnt damp staining in the upper marging).
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- Bookseller
- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1817
- Title
- Issued by the British Optical Instruments manufacturers' Assocition
- Author
- DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable,
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1921.
- Keywords
- scientific instruments optical instruments technology instrument making microsocopy binoculars cameras instrumentation
- Bookseller catalogs
- scientific instruments;
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Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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About the Seller
Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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Schilde
About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
Glossary
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- Soiled
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
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