Time Space Measuring Instruments by Guye Samuel (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-library with stamps and marking coinciding with library. In mylar protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pp. [4] 5-289. More than 420 illustrations, 20 tipped-in color plates. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light handling on the boards and spine, a patch of discoloring on the fore edge of the back panel. Text and images unmarked. Some foxing on the top edge; lighter on the fore and bottom edges. The dust jacket shows some edgewear and small tears, tanning, a chip out along the fore edge of the back panel (see photo), unclipped, in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. An apparently unused copy. Fine in sl rubbed/soiled dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Cloth. Condition: VG-. Pierre Devinoy (photographs) (illustrator). First UK Edition. Lavishly-illustrated study of the progress in measuring time and space over 500 years. Originally published in French. Fawn covers with black lettering, 289pp inc index, with more than 420 illustrations, inc 20 colour plates. Covers have modest wear, but top of lower board is stained through damp and stain has affected top of rear endpapers. Page edges dusty and foxed. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown, otherwise internally clean and tight. Unclipped DJ is stained and curled at top edges, yellowed, with moderate wear and rubbing, several tears and a couple of losses. Heavy book may require extra postage. Ref:103995.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy in a very good plus, price clipped, mylar protected DJ; 1st American edition with no additional printings listed. Light wear and some wrinkling to DJ spine area. Black dot to bottom edge of page block, otherwise, a nice, tight copy with no names or inscriptions; A larger book requiring additional postage for priority and international orders. 4to., 278 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$28.50] IN VERY GOOD TO NEAR FINE CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large hardback in very good condition with very good condition dust jacket. Some yellowing from age.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: FR/G. Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator). New York, NY: Praeger. FR/G. (1971). . Cloth w/DJ. 4to., 291 pp., DJ Price-clipped, yellowed, front hinge broken .

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition thus. This is the first US edition. Dust Jacket w/ minor tear. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's name ink-stamped on t.e. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22478. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Color and black and white photographs by Pierre Devinoy throughout. Translated from the French by Diana Dolan. First American edition. Very good in a very good (age toning, four tape marks on verso from an old dust jacket protector) dust jacket.

Oblong 4to. 289 pp. Profusely illus. (20 color tipped-in plates), index. Black-stamped linen cloth, dust-jacket; jacket tail frayed. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Deals with clocks, measuring instruments, terrestrial and celestial globes, armillary spheres and planetarium, astrolabes, sundials, clepsydras, hour-glasses, and topographical instruments.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Slightly oblong quarto. 289, [2]pp. About fine in modestly age-toned near fine dustwrapper.

Oblong quarto, 292pp, richly illustrated in b&w and colour, original boards in dustwrapper, near fine. First UK edition. Mostly devoted to clocks, but also globes, sundials, measuring instruments, hour glasses, astrolabes and topographical instruments.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/VG. Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator). New York, NY: Praeger. G/VG. (1971). . Cloth w/DJ. 4to., 291 pp., DJ Price-clipped, yellowed, ffe folded .

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy quarto 289pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., index, Covers monumental Clocks; The Gothic Clock; The Renaissance etc., Ancient Measuring Instruments; Clepsydras & Hour Glasses; Topographical Instruments.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). The first English language edition of this intriguing book on instruments used to measure time throughout history. The first English language edition of Time & Space Measuring Instruments from the 15th to the 19th Century by Samuel Guye and Henri Michel in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper.This interesting study looks into the history of technology, the history of our understanding of time and how we as a society used tools to aid this understanding.With lovely monochrome and colour illustrations throughout the text. In the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some slight wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper. To the binding, there is some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. A most excellent illustrated history of the amazing and often lavish devices for measuring time and distance over five centuries. Photographs by Pierre Devinoy. Oblong 4to 10 1/4" X 10". Tan coarse cloth stamped in brown on spine. 420 excellent illustrations including 295 numbered B&W plate illustrations with descriptions. 20 terrific tipped in color plates. 289 text pages plus the plates. Dust jacket. Fine/near Fine.

First American Obl. 4to, cloth. 289 pp, 420 illustrations (20 tipped-in color), index. Very good in dj; endpaper stains.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 289. 20 tipped-in colour illus., 295 b/w illus. from photos + numerous line illus. index. cloth. dw. First Edition of the English Translation.