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Containing exquisite plates with views on the moon and stellar constellations adorned with the zodiacal symbols View picture(s) 1 BRADFORD, Duncan. The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, stars, with descriptions of plantes, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. Boston, American Stationers Co., 1837. Large 4to. Contemp. half green moroco. Engraved frontispiece with Herschel's telescope, engr. title with zodiac, 6 full-page engr. with telescopic views of the moon in different phases and planets, 6 handcoloured folding engr. plates with celestial charts, numerous woodcuts in text of which five full-page. 371 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mechanics  Meteorology  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first illustration of steam power View picture(s) 2 BRANCA, Giovanni. Le machine. Rome, Jacomo Mascardi, for Jacomo Manuci, 1629. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With architectural title-page within engraved allegorical borders and 77 numbered woodcut plates. [3], 40, 14, 23 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Earth Sciences [General]  Engineering  Mechanics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Clear instructions for making clocks View picture(s) 3 STÖCKEL, Johann Matthias. Praktische Lehre oder Anweisung über den Uhrenbau in seinem ganzen Umfange, nach welcher ein jeder Liebhaber die besten und richtigen Uhren aller Art selbst auf eine leichte und faßliche Art verfertigen kann. München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. Orig. boards. With 49 illustrations on 16 folding lithographed plates. XII, II, 199 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Horology  Manuals  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three essays on the infinitesimal in one volume View picture(s) 4 TORELLI, Guiseppe. De nihilo geometrico, libri II. Verona, Augustinus Carattonius, 1758. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with orange title-label, reading "Miscellanea" and a paper label lettered in ink, blue sprinkled edges. With allegorical woodcut vignette on title, and many geometrical woodcuts in text. 117, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French classic on watchmaking updated View picture(s) 5 WOLBRECHT, Georg. Die Uhrmacherkunst vorgetragen in dreissig Vorlesungen, oder vollständiges Handbuch für Uhrmacher und Liebhaber der Kunst. Nach Berthoud, und den Werken von Wuillamy, erstem Uhrmacher des Königs von England, Georg IV. Geordnet und mit den neuesten Verbesserungen vermehrt von einem alten Schüler Breguets. Aus dem Französischen. Leipzig, Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1829. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, with green title-labels, red painted edges. With numerous illustrations and figures on 17 folding engraved plates. XII, 801, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Horology  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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