Search Results: Authors starting with M from Tesseract

1945. First edition. Hardcover - binding discolored. Very Good. 1945, large page size, 47pp text plus 137 illustrations, primarily in color, from the Abbott Collection of paintings of the US Government. A discussion of men in wartime by an Associated Press journalist with the help of the Medical department of the US Army. The images are remarkable, a far cry from the typical battlefield scenes. Presentation copy to Commander J.E. Nadler from the well-known illustrator/painter Robert Benney "From one who has a high regard for your men who were armed with Magic Bullets." Twenty-four of the paintings are in fact by Benney.

1992 translation of 1925. Hardcover. New. (1992 translation of 1925), 392pp., well-illustrated. Most interesting, exhaustive in-depth descriptions and analyses of digital calculating machines from their earliest inception (Pascal's machine of 1642) to the end of the first quarter of the 20th century (the Hamann-Manus of 1925). Volume 16 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing

1980. First edition. Hardcover. New. 1980, 322pp., illus, out-of-print. Well researched articles and fine large illustrations cover early clocks, celestial globes, etc. (Multiple copies available.)

2007. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 2007. Extensively researched and documented account of this most important craftsman of innovative astronomical and diverse scientific instruments, told in 318 pp., illustrated.

First English language edition. As New/good. 1967, translated from the French, 208 large pages, with over 100 full page color plates of wonderful early instruments.

1988. Hardcover. New. 1988, 328pp, illus. Thorough.

New York, 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine. Many, many fine full-page b&w illustrations, no pagination, light foxing particularly to endpapers.

1994. Hardcover. New. 1994, 304pp., with 390 photographs of this little-known major collection

Hardcover. Very Good. 1911, 344 pp., with 45 charts, many in color, and 81 illustrations in text. Comprehensive treatment of the science and instrumentation of meteorology, over 100 years ago. Front cover loosening a bit, backstrip faded.

1984. Paperback. New. 1984, 138pp., illustrated. Includes much on instruments, kaleidoscopes, etc.

1993. First edition. Hardcover, slipcased. New. 1993. A magnificent large volume treating this Royal collection of wonderful scientific instruments, all fully illustrated and described in 710 pages! (Multiple copies available.)

Hardcover. Good. Bulletin 136 of California State Division of Mines, 1948, 402pp. Cites locations throughout the state for all identified minerals.

Hardcover. Very Good. 1910, 304 pp. including 3 maps and almost 300 illustrations of all manner of artifacts from cultures worldwide. Text and illustrations are fine, noting that most of the blank pages bear glued-on clippings of ethnographica.