Geometrical Graphical Essays by Adams George (81 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th edition, 1813. Text volume only, lacking separate plate volume. Pp xii 534 with a frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Frontis spotted, quite heavy off-setting onto title page. Binding is firm but there is wear and chipping to the marbled paper at the edges of the boards. Scattered spotting here and there, but text is generally clean. Text volume only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th Edition. Two volumes Vol I 534pp. Vol. II 34 folding copper plate engraved illustrations. Both volumes in a modern qtr bound tan leather over marbled boards. Some foxing.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 198. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1803 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 198.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo . An appendix and plate volume of George Adams' mathematical essay collection, collecting together thirty-four folding plates. Two volumes bound in one. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. P37.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lon: W. Glendinning for W. and S. Jones, Opticians, 1803. 8vo. 2 Vols in 1 (text and plates). 8vo. 10, [6], 518; [2], ads [14], [2] pp + [34] folding plates. Contemporary calf. Morocco spine label. AEG. Tight binding and solid boards. Moderate shelf wear. Speckled page ends. Clean, unmarked pages. Copper-plate engraved charts and illustrations. Includes all plates. George Adams was an English optical designer and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes. Among his works are a Treatise on the Construction and Use of Globes and an "Essay on the Microscope." A well-preserved, internally sound volume in very good condition.

Leather cover. Condition: Good. G : in Good condition. Cover and spine rubbed. Minor worming [defunct] to corner of first 3 pp. Contents tight and overall G+. 220mm x 130mm (9" x 5"). 517pp + plates;14pp, 2pp. 34 folding copper plates. Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged by William Jones.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd edition, 1 volume, lacking plate volume, 10pp + [6pp] + 518pp + 14pp + 2pp, containing 14pp catalogue at rear of instruments sold by W and S Jones, bound in full leather raised bands/gilt, herladic bookplate of John Harris "My Prince and My Country" ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. Geometrical and Graphical Essays, Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective; With Many New Practical Problems, Illustrated by Thirty-Four Copper Plates. By the Late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, &c. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P.S. London: Printed by C. Baldwin, New Bridge-Street; For, and Sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1813. 534 p, 8.5 x 5.75 , 8vo, Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays, by the Late George Adams. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by William Jones. 1813, 34 foldout plates (Complete), 8.75 x 5.75 , 8vo, original publisher's boards. In fair condition. Book 1 of prose exhibits the most wear: front board detached from binding; tail of spine lacking (including headband); head of spine chipped; spine exhibits moderate loss (mostly top and bottom compartments, binding exposed). Title label on book 1's spine is intact, but chipped around edges; gilt lettering soiled, but legible. Front end-page to preface page viii attached by one piece of cording only, very fragile. Water or tea dampness stain to bottom corner of Book 1's frontispiece, causing some age-staining and foxing. Off-setting to book 1's title page from frontispiece. Book 2's original publisher's boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of Book 2's spine bumped; paper title label chipped at front hinge. Normal toning throughout both text-blocks, with instances of age-staining and off-setting. All plates intact in Book 2. Bindings of text-blocks remain intact; Book 1's binding needs repair. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. George Adams the younger (1750 1795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. He was mathematical instrument maker to King George III of Great Britain, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. He also made globes. Around 1770, Adams invented the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp, as to make it easier to draw or trace the image. Adams wrote elementary scientific works, and on the use of mathematical instruments. He often combined religious with a scientific content, against, according to the Gentleman's Magazine, the "growing errors of materialism, infidelity, and anarchy". He started writing at a young age, and developed a love for it. His main interests were science and mathematics. Originally published in 1791, this is the fourth edition (1813), complete with the edition of plates (34 plates total). RAREB1813HOOB-0523-aj0120 FORN-SHELF-0467-BB-2410-HKREV166.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An appendix and plate volume of George Adams' mathematical essay collection, collecting together thirty-four folding plates. Two volumes bound in one.'Appendix to Mr. Adams's Geometrical and Graphical Essays: Containing a Table of the Quantity of Northing, Southing, Easting, and Westing, Made on any Course, to Every Degree and Fifteenth Minute of Quadrant, at any Distance From 1 to 100', by John Gale, published in 1791. A very scarce work.'Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays' by George Adams, corrected and enlarged by William Jones. The second edition, published in 1797.The second work is illustrated with thirty-four folding plates.Collated, all plates are present.George Adams was an eighteenth century scientist, being the mathematical instrument maker to George III. He invented the lucernal microscope, and also built globes.This plate volume was originally issued alongside the text volume.Fourteen pages to the rear titled 'A Catalogue of Optical Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Made by W. and S. Jones'.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. In a full rebacked calf binding. Externally, with some rubbing to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Faint tidemark to the fore edge of the first work and first few pages of the second work. Very Good. book.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 546. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1803 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 546.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 626. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1813 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 626.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 536 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.21 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Very good. Fourth Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (228 x 145 mm); 9 x 5 ½". Text volume: pp. frontispiece, xii, 534, [16] ads; Plates vol.: pp. title page and 34 folding plates. Previous owner's name penned on the first free flyleaf. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards, untrimmed, housed in a felt-lined custom clamshell box, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Occasional browning to the edges of some of the plates in Vol. 2, 1/2 inch tear to fold of Pl. VIII and 1 inch tear to the edge of Pl XIV, none of these minor flaws affecting the images. Frontispiece "The Great Theodolite, by Ramsden, Used by the late Gen.l Roy &c. in the great English Trigonometrical Operations." This is the "Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P. S. [ESTC T88416, 1791 edition]. The last chapter of these fascinating volumes includes conversion tables to various standard national measure ranging from the Paris foot to the Russian archine, to the Venice braccio, the Egyptian stadium to 'The mathematical foot of China'. GEORGE ADAMS the younger (17501795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. In politics Adams was a Tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III, who made him his official mathematical instrument maker, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. George III was personally interested in instruments and had Adams produce items for him exclusively, many in silver. These instruments now form a collection which is housed in London's Science Museum Royal Collection Adams was also known for making globes, and for inventing the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp, to make it easier to draw or trace the images. "G. Adams in Fleet Street London" is the signature on some of the finest scientific instruments of the 18th century. In 1787, Adams was also appointed optician to the Prince of Wales (the future George IV).

First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 500; engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved folding plates; contemporary full tree calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; joints starting, else very good. The last 15 pages of text consist of "A Catalogue of Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments, made and sold by George Adams," with several hundred items listed in various catagories (drawing instruments, military instruments, instruments for navigation, astronomical instruments, meteorological instruments, and so forth), each with a price affixed.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1791 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 197 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 197.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 536 pages. 10.00x7.50x1.21 inches. This item is printed on demand.