bion nicolas stone edmund (8 résultats)

hardback, large 4to, 3.3Kg., viii,325pp, 30 plates, slight foxing on edges and endpapers, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper unevenly faded and a couple of small tears on edges.

Full title - THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. BION, CHIEF INSTRUMENT-MAKER TO THE FRENCH KING. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE CONSTRUCTION AND USES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS AS ARE OMITTED BY M. BION, PARTICULARLY OF THOSE INVENTED OR IMPROVED BY THE ENGLISH. BY EDMUND STONE. THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY FOLIO COPPER-PLATES, CONTAINING THE FIGURES, &C. OF THE SEVERAL INSTRUMENTS. . . THE SECOND EDITION. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SUPPLEMENT: CONTAINING A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS AS NOW IMPROVED. [2], i-vii, [1], 1-264, [4], 265-325, [1] pages (plus b/w plates on unpaged leaves). Hardcover: H 35.5cm x L 23.75cm. Dark pink dust jacket; spine sunned/faded; chipping and tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price. Black cloth; bumping to spine ends and to boards' bottom fore-edge corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Secondary title page (following page 264) "A Supplement to the English Translation of Mr Bion's Construction and Use of Mathematical Instruments: Containing a further Account of some of the most useful Mathematic Instruments, both Ancient and Modern, as now improved. By Edmund Stone." Facsimile reprints of the 1758 London editions published by J. Richardson. B/w plates on unpaged leaves numbered as I-XXV within primary text; supplement text has Plate XXVI and concluding Plates I-IV (for thirty total matching sum specified in primary title). Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 7.75 pounds (3.51 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail and, in particular, international postage (other than Canada) will be in excess of US$100.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Exact facsimile of the 1758 edition, vii+325pp. Large format (9.5 x 14", 24x36 cm). Illustrated with 55 plates. DJ slightly faded; internally CLEAN, no name or writing.Weighs 6.5 lb/3.3 k. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.

First English language edition; folio (34.5 x 22 cm); 25 engraved folding plates, tables within the text, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, small contemporary pen mark to the front free endpaper, 20th century manuscript note taped to the front pastedown, 20th century bookseller's label tipped-in on the rear pastedown, some spotting and toning to the plates, heavy foxing of the final 8 leaves of text; contemporary calf rebacked with the original spine laid down, red morocco label, edges of text block speckled in red, corners repaired, boards scuffed and marked, very good condition; 264pp. First English language edition of 'the most famous book devoted to instruments' of the eighteenth century (Knight, Sources for the History of Science 1660-1914, p. 202), written by the instrument maker to Louis XIV and first published in French in 1709. Nicolas Bion (1652-1733) was 'a master of his craft with an excellent working technique' whose workshop 'must have been one of the most frequented of his period. While his colleagues tended to specialise in the making of globes, mathematical instruments, sun-dials, or mechanical devices, Bion was able to supply all these articles, whatever they might be, of excellent quality. Unique among his fellow instrument makers in this respect, he wrote several books which achieved great success, and perhaps contributed even more than his instruments, to making his name' (Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the 17th & 18th Centuries, p. 79). The present volume 'gives a fairly exhaustive survey of the instruments which a workshop in the first quarter of the eighteen the century was able to offer its clients. The book was intended for the amateur public and its success was due to both the widespread interest shown in mechanics and astronomy, and to the fact that it was adapted to the practical needs of land surveyors and military engineers' (Knight p. 80). The translator of this edition, Edmund Stone (1695?-1768), was a self-taught mathematician who made a number of important translations of French works, including the standard textbook on Leibniz's differential calculus (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. vii, (1, errata), 264 pp. + 26 folding engraved plates. Hardcover, bound in contemporary paneled calf with attractive gilt-tooled rebacking. The boards rubbed; intermittent toning to the text block, mostly the plates, with occasional minor blemishes; early owner name on the title page.

To which are Added, The Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion particularly of those invented or improved by the English. Folio (355 x 240mm). Title printed in red and black, 26 engraved folding plates, wood-engraved headpieces and initials (excellent with just few last leaves browned ] Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, corner wear]. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Edmund Stone. Wallis p.119.

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