Millburn John R (33 results)

Hardcover. Octavo, vii, viii, x, xii, 244 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Exterior has modest wear including slight sunning to the spine, light soiling, small chip to the front fore edge and sparse, minor chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have very slight wear including slight splaying to the fore edges. Text block has slight wear including light soiling and faint age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. 1405852. FP New Rockville Stock.

paperback, 8vo, 64pp, illustrated, contents clean and sound, no inscriptions, covers slightly creased and edges rubbed; Good condition. ISBN: 0946836256.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 8vo, 95pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, laminated printed biard covers, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0946836302.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A history and representation of the seminal 18th Century catalogue. Includes price lists, illustrations from the original texts, and photographs of the items being sold. Cover shows light shelfwear, otherwise in excellent condition. pp. 95/8vo.Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2513. (This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Entire issue offered. Original wrappers. Very Good. Also contains: Physical, Human and Divine Attraction in the Life and Thought of George Cheyne (G. Bowles), 31, 473-88; Astronomers and Other Scientists on St Helena (W. G. Tatham and K. A. Harwood), 31, 489-510; Relativity of Motion: from Occam to Galileo (Walter E. Gross), 31, 529-46; Herman Boerhaave and the Element-Instrument Concept of Fire (Rosaleen Love), 31, 547-60; Newton, Gases, and Daltonian Chemistry: The Foundations of Combination in Definite Proportion (Robin S. Fleming), 31, 561-74.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover Octavo. illustrated boards, 95 pp.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Many illus. Very minor wear to dustwrapper. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xxii, 420pp. No ownership marks.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 328p. Text is unmarked on bright pages with some b/w illustrations. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Red cloth boards are pointed with gilt lettering with heavy water damage and soiling. Endpages are also soiled with a large puncture on ffep. Still, a solid reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The dust jacket has a mildly faded spine.

A FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS. UNCOMMON.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,244pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper; ISBN: 9028601767.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2000 Ashgate hardcover edition. Light reading wear, inscription to endpaper else very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xi, 328 pp; 59 figs. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. xix + 420 133 Illus., Map.

Condition: New. pp. xix + 420, Map.

Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: New. pp. xix + 420.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. dust jacket lightly rubbed at extremities. Dust jacket in clear protector. With 333 illustrations. 442pp 3.99lb 11.3x8.8x1.2in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xvi, [1], 442. numerous illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (dw. lightly rubbed). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 442 pages. Extensive footnotes, glossary, bibliography and index. Over three hundred black and white illustrations. "Traces the complete history of geared planetary machines from the inventions of Archimedes to the astronomical clocks of the present day. The only work of its kind. Concerned not only with the machines themselves but also with the craftsmen who made them and the uses to which they were put." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding intact. Minor moisture-induced undulating to inner portion of bottom edge of first 110 pages or so. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this masterful treatise.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 95pp. Octavo in glossy pictorial boards. B&W photos. Light rubbing to boards; interior clean, tight, and bright. Very Good+.

8vo, 23.3cm. Pp. xix,[3],420, frontisp., many illustr. in text, appendices, notes & refs., bibliogr., index. Hardbound, boards with pictorial dust jacket. Fine, like new.- [gkt.int.305].

8vo. xix, [3], 420 pp. Numerous illustrations, index. WITH ADDED LARGE FOLDING (printer's galley, or author's graphic) GENEALOGICAL TABLE (much larger than the one published in the book, same text, but with a couple of annotations added by the author). Original gilt-stamped black cloth, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, JOHN R. MILLBURN, TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND, COLLEAGUE AND CO-WRITER, "Dr. Henry C. King, With the author's compliments . . . May 2000." Very good. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS FRIEND & WRITING PARTNER, HENRY C. KING. "'G. Adams in Fleet Street London' is the signature on some of the finest scientific instruments of the eighteenth century. This book is the first comprehensive study of the instrument-making business run by the Adams family, from its foundation in 1734 to bankruptcy in 1817. It is based on detailed research in the archival sources as well as examination of extant instruments and publications by George Adams senior and his two sons, George junior and Dudley. Separate chapters are devoted to George senior's family background, his royal connections, and his new globes; George junior's numerous publications, and his dealings with van Marum; and to Dudley's dabbling with 'medico-electrical therapeutics'. The book is richly illustrated with plates from the Adams's own publications and with examples of instruments ranging from unique museum pieces - such as the 'Prince of Wales' microscope - and globes to the more common, even mundane, items of the kind seen in salesrooms and dealers - the surveying, navigational and military instruments that formed the backbone of the business. The appendices include facsimiles of trade catalogues and an annotated short-title listing of the Adams family's publications, which also covers American and Continental editions, as well as the posthumous ones by W. & S. Jones." â" jacket. / 'Millburn has delved profitably into a wide range of sources. Copious illustrations, many of the instruments passing through the Saleroom or in private hands, expand on those usually shown . . . a book well worth waiting for.' Albion 'In a meticulous piece of research sustained over many years, a remarkably coherent picture of the firm's history and the lives of the men behind it has been constructed by John Millburn.' Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise '. . . the impact of Millburn's work on historiography could go far beyond that of a well contextualized biography . . . this book marks a turning point in the standards necessary to produce a serious historical work on instrument makers. . . his pleasant narrative, and the use of rich and good iconographical resources, make Millburn's book a model for the genre.' Medical History '(Millburn) describes the instruments from the Adams family and their chief competitors, and he uses those instruments as evidence. He does so thoroughly and with discrimination. In order to present this evidence, he has produced a splendidly-illustrated book . . .' Canadian Journal of History 'His book contains several appendixes, one of them especially useful for instrument historians as an aid to dating Adams instruments and publications . . . very detailed . . . an excellent source of information on eighteenth-century life . . . an excellent work . . . the definitive work on the Adams workshop.' Technology and Culture '. . . this book marks a turning point in the standards necessary to produce a serious historical work on instrument makers . . . a model for the genre.' Medical History 46/3 'Millburn is already renowned among eighteenth-century historians of science . . . With this book, he has extended our knowledge in two directions, simultaneously enriching our awareness of the mid-century instrument trade, and providing a longitudinal study of how one family adapted to changing circumstances . . . The thoroughness of Millburn's research is stunning. He has drawn on an impressively wide range of sources.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1978). 4to. 1st Edition. Slight edgewear to cloth binding with bumping to spine ends. Slight rubbing to cloth binding. Leaning to spine. Slight overopening to front and rear hinges. Edgewear to d.j. with scraping to spine ends and forecorner. Bumping to spine ends and forecorners. Slight fading and rubbing to d.j. panels. Sunning to spine of d.j. Small abrasion to front joint. 3 inch long abrasion to rear panel of d.j. Stain to rear foredge of d.j. Tiny tear to rear joint at top edge. VG/VG.