Mathematical Instruments (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. An original essay from the Monthly Review, 1775. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Monthly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

12mo. vi, 170 pp. Engraved frontisp., 1 engraved plates, numerous text illustrations & diagrams. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, leather corners, red & gilt morocco spine label (expertly rebacked, endpapers renewed), still VG copy. Second edition, revised and explained of this concise handbook on mathematical, optical, surveying, and astronomical instruments. Heather describes the use of Gunter's lines, Beam compasses, slide rules, telescopes, camera obscura and camera lucida, theodolites, Hadley's Sextant's, and many others.…

Three parts in one vol. 8vo. [4], 498; 47, [1]; [24 leaves of sample papers]. With 100s of text woodcut-engravings & illustrations (many in colour or colour-tinted). Embossed & decorated green publisher's cloth, orange & green lettering, ornament, & decoration on covers & spine (minor rubbing, shelfwear); 2nd -- printed green softcovers as issued, inserted into rear pocket; 3rd -- printed softcovers mounted on front pastedown, VG copy. Thirteenth edition, revised & expanded, of this excellent sample catalogue filled with mathematical instruments, surveying instruments, office equipment, compasses, slide rules, and all other possible equipment for scientists, mathematicians, navigators, surveyors, and others. Dietzgen (1862-1929) was a noted socialist German-American Chicago manufacturer whose factories supplied and pioneered many different amenities for workers, and still operates as the Dietzgen Corporation. …

12mo. viii, 9-362 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp., 100s of text illustrations & diagrams. Brick-red coloured pebbled publisher's cloth, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (very minor shelfwear, slight rubbing, front inner hinge starting), still VG copy, w/ former ownership markings & annotations on ffep. Twenty-seventh edition of this excellent handbook and catalogue from the largest manufacturer of engineering and surveying instruments in the United Stated during the 19th-century, helping to fuel the massive expansion of railroads and development across the West. The company produced levels, chains, railroad compasses, solar compasses, surveyor's compasses, transits, and more.…

8vo. xi, [1], 118 pp., [10 pp. of tables], plus 7, [1] pp. catalogue. With numerous woodcut engravings, text diagrams, illustrations. Quarger-blue publisher's cloth over gray boards, printed label mounted front cover (minor edgewear, slight bumping to corners, minor dustsoiling, inner hinges expertly repaired), still a VG presentation copy from the author to William Figg (1800-1866), well-known Lewes, Sussex surveyor, who includes pencil note corrections on last page. Second edition, revised, of this informative work by the author details the use of the Land Chain, Surveying Cross, Prismatic Compass, Theodolite, Spirit Level, Sextant, Transit Instrument, and others. Simms (1803-1865), a surveyor and civil engineer of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and formerly with the Ordnance Survey was the son of William Simms (d.1860) scientific instrument maker with Edward Troughton, joined the Southern Eastern Railway Company as resident engineer in 1836, and oversaw the construction of the Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels.…

8vo. xx, 188 pp. With 1 large folding copper-engraved frontisp. of mathematical instruments, 8 copper engraved plates (occasional minor closed tears, creasing to the fore-edges of the plates, couple of the joints starting in the folds). Nineteenth-century half-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers (hinges repaired, minor thumbing and darkening to some leaves), otherwise a VG copy. Second edition of this well-written mathematics instrument manual, incorporating a short history of 44 previous works on mathematical instruments spanning 200 years, with specific descriptions of particular instruments and their development. This work which is considered by Erwin Tomash to be "one of the most complete descriptions of a set of portable mathematical instruments extant," was expanded by over a third to detail the use of Gunners Calipers (or a Gunter's scale) for navigation purposes into a type of slide rule which were made and sold by Nairne & Blunt in London. Robertson (1716-1776) who is perhaps best remembered for his Elements of Navigation considered one of the finest English-language navigation education manuals of the 18th century, Tomash & Williams, R100; Cajori, A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments, pp. 32-33; See: Ellerton & Clements, Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics: A History of the Royal Mathematical School within Christ's Hospital, London 1673-1868 (2017), pp. 50-52, 110, 146, 218.…

Tall 8vo. [2], 21, [1] pp. Printed in red & black, and illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers (minor creasing), still VG copy. Sixth printing, revised & expanded, of this excellent catalogue for the famed company which was an innovator at the beginning of the 20th century in introducing Wheeler's steel tape developed from hoopskirt steel with a drop of solder marking foot gradations. The company was established in Chicago by L.A. Nichols who quickly developed a business based on steel tapes and surveyor's accessories. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Harvard).…

card covers. Condition: very good -. no jacket. 4 1/4 x 6 7/8" 184 pages. Part of New Works- Public Instruction. Improved List. previous owner's name on title page dated 1855. small moisture stain to upper inner corner of rear cover and inside rear cover. Book in red embossed card covers with paper title label on front cover.…