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1590réf. 38905Antwerp: Philip Galle 1590. Sacrifice of King Asa People of Judah rejoicing. 2 Chronicles xv 10-15. Plate 11. The engraving depicts a biblical scene and incorporates an illustration of trumpets cornets horns timbrels and a flute with reference in Latin text beneath the image to the musical instruments depicted. Ca. 220 x 285 mm with narrow margins. Minor wear; occasional foxing; laid down to mounting paper. In very good condition overall. The Encomium Musices Eulogy of Music is an important set of highly detailed late 16th century engravings published in Antwerp ca. 1590 by Philip Galle 1537-1612 best-known as a publisher of Old Master prints; the engraver of this particular plate Collaert was Galle's son-in-law. The suite of engravings is thought by some to commemorate the rededication of Antwerp's churches to Roman Catholicism following the capture of the city by Alexander Farnese in 1585. Philip Galle unknown books
1590réf. 38907Antwerp: Philip Galle 1590. Inauguration of Jerusalem's Walls by Nehemiah. Nehemiah xii 27-39. Plate 13. The engraving depicts a biblical scene and incorporates an illustration of cymbals harps trumpets and horns with reference in Latin text beneath the image to the musical instruments depicted. Ca. 220 x 285 mm with narrow margins. Minor wear; occasional foxing; laid down to mounting paper. In very good condition overall. The Encomium Musices Eulogy of Music is an important set of highly detailed late 16th century engravings published in Antwerp ca. 1590 by Philip Galle 1537-1612 best-known as a publisher of Old Master prints; the engraver of this particular plate Collaert was Galle's son-in-law. The suite of engravings is thought by some to commemorate the rededication of Antwerp's churches to Roman Catholicism following the capture of the city by Alexander Farnese in 1585. Philip Galle unknown books
1590réf. 38906Antwerp: Philip Galle 1590. Coronation of King Joas. 2 Chronicles xxiii 11. Plate 12. The engraving depicts a biblical scene and incorporates an illustration of trumpets harp horn drums cymbals timbrel and triangle with reference in Latin text beneath the image to the musical instruments depicted. Ca. 220 x 285 mm with narrow margins. Minor wear; occasional foxing; laid down to mounting paper. In very good condition overall. The Encomium Musices Eulogy of Music is an important set of highly detailed late 16th century engravings published in Antwerp ca. 1590 by Philip Galle 1537-1612 best-known as a publisher of Old Master prints; the engraver of this particular plate Collaert was Galle's son-in-law. The suite of engravings is thought by some to commemorate the rededication of Antwerp's churches to Roman Catholicism following the capture of the city by Alexander Farnese in 1585. Philip Galle unknown books
1590réf. 38908Antwerp: Philip Galle 1590. Rededication of the Temple by Simon Maccabaeus. I Maccabaeus Apocrypha xiii 49-51. Plate 15. The engraving depicts a biblical scene and incorporates an illustration of harp timbrels trumpet horn and flute with reference in Latin text beneath the image to the musical instruments depicted. Ca. 220 x 285 mm with narrow margins. Minor wear; occasional foxing; laid down to mounting paper. In very good condition overall. The Encomium Musices Eulogy of Music is an important set of highly detailed late 16th century engravings published in Antwerp ca. 1590 by Philip Galle 1537-1612 best-known as a publisher of Old Master prints; the engraver of this particular plate Collaert was Galle's son-in-law. The suite of engravings is thought by some to commemorate the rededication of Antwerp's churches to Roman Catholicism following the capture of the city by Alexander Farnese in 1585. Philip Galle unknown books
1590réf. 30831Antwerp: Philip Galle 1590. Saul among the Prophets I Samuel x 10-11. Plate 5. The engraving depicts a biblical scene and incorporates an illustration of musical instruments including timbrels harp drums cornet and trumpet with reference in Latin text beneath the image to the musical instruments depicted. Ca. 220 x 285 mm with narrow margins. Minor wear; occasional foxing; laid down to mounting paper. In very good condition overall. Philip Galle unknown books
1986réf. M14105Stuttgart:: Museum for Medical Endoscopy Max Nitze e.V. 1986. 1986. 29 cm. 82 pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers green cloth spine. Fine. Relating to the early history of electrical urologic endoscopes. With preface by Otto Winkelmann and commentary on the monograph by Hans J. and Matthias A. Reuter. Museum for Medical Endoscopy, Max Nitze e.V., [1986]. hardcover books
1582réf. 13078Florence: G Marescotti 1582. First Edition. Modern linen over boards. Good with some erratic spotting and toning; backstrip wanting. Small 4to 53 1 - printer's device & privilege. The book is illustrated throughout. Lupicini was a military engineer who as early as 1552 had been involved in the sieges of Montalcino and Monticchiello. He also worked as a hydraulic engineer for the city of Venice. The book offered here is his explanation of a new astronomical staff devised by him. It could be used for various surveying problems or as a geometrical quadrant and cross-staff. The instrument also included a magnetic compass Breman and the text discusses its application to ballistics and cartography. This is the only printing of the treatise. Adams L-1723; Breman pp. 212 - 213; Riccardi II 59; H-L #2741; Sphaera Mundi #35. G Marescotti hardcover books
1912réf. 5142Munich: Deutschen Museums 1912. First Edition. Contemporary cloth. A fine copy. Folio. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Reichenbach was known as an inventor and designer of astronomical instruments and an engineer. He spent some time in England in the early 1790s where he met Boulton Watt and Ramsden. He returned to Germany and was commissioned an officer in the Bavarian army engineering corps. By 1805 he was engaged in the construction of high quality instruments at his own works in Munich where he employed Fraunhofer. This was the beginning of the modern era in German instrument making that resulted in devices of unprecedented power and precision. His workshops became national training centers. German technical excellence in the 19th century is a direct result of Reichenbach's intiative. The book offered here is a scientific biography that covers the development of his instrument designs and engineering projects e.g. his cast iron tube construction of bridges. A superb reference. DSB XI 354 - 355. Deutschen Museums hardcover books
1850réf. 1310Vienna: unk. 1850. First Edition. Later stiff boards. Fine. 8vo. There are 9 large fldg. litho. plates illus. details of the instruments. A very interesting pamphlet on the techniques of constructing self recording instruments. Jelinek was known for his work on the derivation and equations for the measurment of relative humidity see Napier-Shaw. Jelinek was convinced of the importance of consistent observations over long periods of time and felt that mechanical recording devices were the only way to obtain such information. The pamphlet offered here addresses these issues and suggests various ways in which it could be accomplished. unk., hardcover books
1977réf. 38021Edinburgh: Lyndesay G. Langwill 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Full dark red cloth with titling gilt to spine. xvi 307 pp. With occasional illustrations. Binding slightly bumped; dustjacket worn. Lyndesay G. Langwill hardcover books
1970réf. 41219NY:: Something Else Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0871100371 . First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Something Else Press, hardcover books
1747réf. 24065London: T Heath Mathematical Instrument-maker . 1747. First Edition. Full contemporary half leather. Very good; binding rubbed; some rumpling to the extreme fore-edge of the folded plates. 8vo xxiii 1 - errata 1 - 107 1 - blank pp. 6 plates and a folding frontispiece illustrating the contents of the case of instruments. An early book explaining the use of the cased instruments. The author also provides a notable if truncated history of mathematical instruments of all sorts and a handlist of published works on the subject from the 16th century. Uncommon. See Clifton p. 131 for Thomas Heath. T Heath, Mathematical Instrument-maker .... hardcover books
1827réf. 23078London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood . 1827. First Edition. Contemporary three-quarter leather over binder's cloth. Very good; binding somewhat dry; two spots on the front cover. 8vo xvi 1 - 146 2 - adverts pp. 12 lithographic plates. A renown work for its introduction of new orthopedic devices for simple and complex cases. The book is an outline of the application of Amesbury's inventions and transcriptions of individual procedures from his case book. He also notes in the introduction that the various apparatus he refers to may be obtained at the shop of Mr Grafton in King Street Clifton Directory . p. 117 citing later dates and different addresses. Despite the evident hucksterism the treatise is of value for its awareness and treatment of orthopedic problems and collateral issues e.g. soft tissue trauma accompanying broken bones. In all an informed and remarkably adept treatise. Hirsch I p. 113. Printed for Thomas and George Underwood .... hardcover books
1881réf. 4809West Troy: A & A F Spitzli Publishers 1881. First Edition. Original publisher's decorated cloth. Near Fine. 8vo I - 182 2 1 - 70 2 - contents pp.; II - Frontispiece 3 - 5 6 - 118 12 - adverts pp. The text is illus. throughout. Two books bound as one but clearly meant to be issued together. The first book is an extremely useful encyclopaedia of all terms used in or related to the textile trade in the 19th century. There are detailed explanations of manufacturing terms types of cloth and material weaving design etc. Accompanying this is a separately paginated trade catalogue of instruments related to the sciences technical drawing instruments microscopy and items generally used in the design and manufacture of fabrics. It is a very unusual combination of goods. Absent from Romaine. A & A F Spitzli Publishers hardcover books
1828réf. 1018London: R Taylor 1828. OFFPRINT. Original plain blue wrappers. Very good. 4to 2 - title page 257 - 289 paginated 1 - blank pp. 2 steel engraved plates. This a separately issued offprint retaining the original pagination. Kater was a member of the Royal Engineers. He devised and built a number of geodetic instruments for the accurate determination of the longitude and acceleration of gravity see Turner. But his most important contribution to scientific instrumentation is the device described in this offprint. The collimator permitted the alignment of a telescope attached to a circle in any position of the instrument with negligible error. See Lenzen & Multhauf on Kater's instruments. R Taylor unknown books
1816réf. 5914Washington DC: William Davis 1816. First Edition. Contemporary half leather. Very good; backstrip powdering; overall toning. Chancery folio I - 8 pp. 2 folding charts; II Indians - 2 3 - 128 pp. 5 folding charts; III Hassler - 4 5 - 10 2 pp. 3 folding charts. The original report by Hassler of his 'buying' trip to Europe in 1811. Hassler was commissioned by Jefferson to undertake the first coast survey. To this end Congress appropriated $50000 for the purchase of instruments. Hassler travelled to Europe but arrived during the wars and was delayed for years. Upon his return this report was issued by the Treasury Dept. that detailed his expenditures for scientific instruments and books as well as chronometers. All the devices makers cost specifications etc. are listed in the report offered here. Hassler's account is bound up with two other Treasury Dept. reports of the same year - separately issued - that provide information on the expenses of the Indian Department and general and particular information on trade with the Indian nations. DSB VI 165-166; DAB VIII 385-386; Poggendorff I 1031. William Davis hardcover books