Published by Historical Technology Press 1978 - 1987, Marblehead, MA, 1978
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co., Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.
4to. Three vols. of variously paginated catalogs. b/w ills. The set brought 294 GPB at Sotheby's 1992 "Literature and Scientific Instruments" sale. Moskowitz was a retired engineer who turned his hobby of collecting scientific instruments into a pioneering business. He was quite a success and his catalogs (which include books and charts as well as instruments) stretched over nine years and twenty-nine catalogs. This collection is complete, and represents a goldmine of information as well as "good old days" prices and items Well over 1000 pages of catalogs here, tidily bound in red buckram. The lot.