Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 11.1x9.0x1.3in. 1st US edition; dust jacket spine slightly darkened. Dust jacket in clear protector. The first book to deal with the vast range of instruments and apparatus made and used during the exciting years of the nineteenth century, when modern science came of age.… Read more about this item

( Berkeley and Los Angeles ): University of California Press, 1984. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 320 pp., 9" x 11" inches. Tan cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket. A clean copy noting some yellowing to the spine panel of the dj. Cloth. A tremendous resource for the curator or collector on nineteenth century scientific instruments, one never far… Read more about this item

Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-library, with few if any markings, dj has sunned, page edges have tanned slightly, otherwise quite nice.). Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & decorated dust jacket, 320 pp., many BW & color illus. "This is the first book to deal with the vast range of instruments and… Read more about this item

London / Berkeley: Sotheby / California. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1983. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 320 pp. .

London/Berkeley, CA: Sotheby Publications/University of California Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First Printing. 320 pp. 4to. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within.

Berkeley: University of California, 1983. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). Foreword by Dame Margaret Weston. Many illustrations. 320 pages, 4to, brown cloth, d.w.; minor spotting to top edge and foredge. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1983). Internally fine, a near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

London; Sotheby Publications, 1983., 1983. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. 320 pp. Illustrated with over 440 plates including 30 in colour of examples from European collections and contemporary engravings providing a unique aid to identification and an invaluable reference for collectors and historians. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original brown cloth with gilt titles in unclipped pictorial… Read more about this item

Philip Wilson Publishers, January 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

London: Sotheby's Publications, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 11" x 8 3/4". 320 pages, 30 colour plates, many black and white illustrations. List of instrument makers exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851; Bibliography. An unique aid to identification, as well as providing accurate and detailed information on function and dating. Invaluable to museum staff and historians, as… Read more about this item

Sotheby/University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover book, 8.75" x 11", dust wrapper and book are both fine; 320 pp profusely illustrated in black-and-white; 30 color illustrations, bibliography, etc; text discusses: magnetism, hydrostatics, surveying, navigational, meterological, drawing etc 3 lbs 8oz