Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo size, 509 pp. The first complete history of the barometer as a scientific instrument. "Even long before the barometer came into common use, its invention contributed powerfully to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century by making obsolete the..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 1993. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 728 pp. A history of clocks and watches from a scholar's viewpoint with Appendices, glossary, bibliography and index. As stated on the title-page: "with a list of 25,000 makers, revised and extended to 1875, 388 illustrations including 40 in colour". Truly..... More
San Francisco: Braun-Knecht-Heimann-Co. 1929. Hardcover. Quarto size, 552 pp. Issued by the Braun-Knecht-Heimann-Co. of San Francisco, and The Braun Corporation of Los Angeles, this 1929 catalog offers "supplies as are generally used in school laboratories" as well as "a limited line of agricultural equipment", along with "all instruments and equipment"..... More
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY [and] Dracut, MA: Tesseract [and] The Antiquarian Scientist, 1986-2002. Wraps. Volumes I through 16 (published in fifty-six issues); November, 1986 (Vol. I, Issue 1) – December, 2002 (Vol. 16, Issue 56). Octavo size, approx. 4350 pp. total. A continuous run of the first sixteen volumes (published in fifty-six..... More
Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, Inc., in association with National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, (1996). Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 304 pp. We cannot state this subject of this work any better than did the authors in the Introduction: "Alvan Clark and his two sons, George Bassett and Alvan Graham..... More
London: The Royal Microscopical Society, 1928. Hardcover. Octavo size, 316 pp. An important book in the history of microscopy; the first part provides an "Historical Introduction" from the "Earliest Times" through 1673, and the second provides descriptive "Catalogues of Instruments and Accessories". Replete with illustrations, with thirty-two in Part I...... More
Chicago: E.H. Sargent & Company, c. 1914. Limp cloth. Quarto size, 382 pp. A catalogue offering for sale "scientific laboratory apparatus" which, we are assured, will either be in stock or "we will import or make to order promptly at a reasonable price" (n.b., from the "Announcement" - i.e., Introduction)..... More
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1993. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 773 pp. The firm of Benjamin Pike (1777-1863) was founded in 1806 and operated in New York for 110 years "under various ownerships and names". They were known as a "pre-eminent makers" of eyeglasses and, when early microscopes came into..... More