time space measuring instruments von guye samuel (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

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.

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.

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

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

in-4to, 289p., richly ill., with publisher?s pencil emendations, clothbound with orig. ill. jacket slightly damaged. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

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.