Tall 4to. (viii), 325, [ads 1] pp. 30 plates. Black cloth, dust-jacket; corners bumped, jacket sunned and chipped. Ownership signature. Very good. Reprint of the Second and best English Edition. Translated from the French by Edmund Stone. The superb plates illustrate many fine instruments, including the telescope, quadrant, sun dial, compass, the pendulum clock, various astronomical instruments, and much more. See: DSB, II, pp. 132-133.

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Title

The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments. . . .

Publisher

Holland Press, (1972)., London:

Publication Date

1972

Binding

Hardcover

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Dust Jacket Included

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Mathematics

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Jeff Weber Rare Books, established in 1986, relocated from California to Montreux, Switzerland in 2020. I specialize in the history of science, history of medicine, early printed books, fine printing, bibliography, Persia, fore-edge painting, scholarly books. I buy collections and do regular appraisal work.

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