Search Results: Titles starting with T from Tesseract

2000 - 2023. First edition. Paperback. New. Special Offer: The continuous run of the last 50 issues of this catalogue (2000- 2023), presenting on 2000 pages all manner of early scientific and medical instruments, fully illustrated, described, and priced. Useful as identification guide, price guide, as well as a continuing source for purchases. Special limited offer. (Multiple copies available.)

Dijon, France, 1825. Paperback. Fine. 5"x7", 16pp. plus 4 large fold-out tables plus two-page perspectus of De Gouvenain's new "Découverte Fort Importante." This rare Dijon imprint includes descriptions of several forms of hydrometers ("aréometres"), with a figure showing three types discussed.. $120. Scarce.

1958. Hardcover. Good/fair. 1958, First set of tables of light-scattering by small spheres, for various indices of refraction, at various wavelengths. Technical tables.

1998. Hardcover. New/new. 1998. With 222 pp., this splendid work covers the evolution of all manner of instruments of navigation from the rarest to the everyday, beautifully illustrated and thoroughly described. Essential.

reprint of 1975. Hardcover. New. (reprint of 1975), 544pp., illustrated. The best analysis of early American instrument manufacture; much on surverying. (Multiple copies available.)

Spring Books, 1969. Hardcover. As New/fine. large 9"x11-3/4", 320pp, fully illustrated, covering this "greatest English watch- and clockmaker of the seventeenth century" and his extraordinary craftsmanship.

2008. Hardcover. New. 2008, 440pp., illus. Blackboards to slide rules, string models to computers, all in the service of education. (Multiple copies available.)

Paris, 1803. Hardcover. Good. 554pp. plus 12 fold-out plates, 7"x4", gilt leather binding shaken, corner worn, plate edges soiled, otherwise fine, a full treatment of land surveying published just after the reforms of the French Revolution, including a 43 page suplement on the "New Measures." Signed inscription by the 1809 owner, Jean Foucault.

Washington DC: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Massive 871-page volume recording details of this cross-country triangulation, including tables, recounting of surveying rigors, maps, and 50 full-page plates some with instrumentation. Included are the original two folding transcontinental maps, stored in their pouch in the cover. (Front blank pages loose, binding loosening, interior very fine throughout.)

1969. Hardcover. New. 128pp, with diagrams, rare

Philadelphia, 1850 + 1855. Hardcover. Good. The 1850 Treatise of 266pp., plus 152 tables plus 11 fold-out plates, leather covers loosening, interior generally foxed but good, PLUS: Alsop, S., A COMPLETE KEY TO GUMMERE'S SURVEYING, Phila., 1855, 84pp. plus 4 fold-out plates, fine. $95.

1994. First edition. Paperback. Good. 1994, 260pp., primarily highly detailed tables of planetary positions on a near-daily basis. Some wrinkles front and back, good working copy.