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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto (4to); 204pp. Bound in full red buckram cloth with armillary sphere gilt top board, spine titles gilt, still in original onion-paper wrapper. Very good copy; printed by the Meriden Gravure Company.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor wear. Very Good+ condition. A nice copy. 204 pages, illustrated. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A clean tight copy showing light shelf wear bound in red cloth with black and gilt spinal label.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xii, [204] pp; well illus. (some tipped-in color plates). Original cloth, 4to. Very Good+, without dust jacket (as issued). 'Describes and illustrates the approximately 85 instruments, mainly by the 'better' London makers, in the Harvard collection. Gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard' (R. W. Home, The History of Classical Physics, A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1984, no. 523).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, [204] pp; illus. 4to. Original cloth. Very Good. This book does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. SIGNED BY DAVID WHEATLAND: "To Dave & Connie Clement/ may they forgive the strong Harvard/ emphasis in these accounts-Yale has some fine apparatus too./ Dave Wheatland/ 4-20-72." "Describes and illustrates the approximately 85 instruments, mainly by the 'better' London makers, in the Harvard collection. Gives details of purchase and use, providing quotations from letters and from account books in the university archives, thus supplying valuable details of the history of the instruments and the part they played in the development of science at Harvard" (Home no. 523). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 204pp. Red cloth, gilt-stamped design on front, black spine label gilt-stamped. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and sketches, color plates tipped in. Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.…