Time space measuring instruments von guye samuel (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ex-library with stamps and marking coinciding with library. In mylar protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pp. [4] 5-289. More than 420 illustrations, 20 tipped-in color plates. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light handling on the boards and spine, a patch of discoloring on the fore edge of the back panel. Text and images unmarked. Some foxing on the top edge; lighter on the fore and bottom edges. The dust jacket shows some edgewear and small tears, tanning, a chip out along the fore edge of the back panel (see photo), unclipped, in a mylar cover. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First US Edition. An apparently unused copy. Fine in sl rubbed/soiled dw.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Cloth. Zustand: VG-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. First UK Edition. Lavishly-illustrated study of the progress in measuring time and space over 500 years. Originally published in French. Fawn covers with black lettering, 289pp inc index, with more than 420 illustrations, inc 20 colour plates. Covers have modest wear, but top of lower board is stained through damp and stain has affected top of rear endpapers. Page edges dusty and foxed. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown, otherwise internally clean and tight. Unclipped DJ is stained and curled at top edges, yellowed, with moderate wear and rubbing, several tears and a couple of losses. Heavy book may require extra postage. Ref:103995. Pierre Devinoy (photographs) (illustrator).…

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy in a very good plus, price clipped, mylar protected DJ; 1st American edition with no additional printings listed. Light wear and some wrinkling to DJ spine area. Black dot to bottom edge of page block, otherwise, a nice, tight copy with no names or inscriptions; A larger book requiring additional postage for priority and international orders. 4to., 278 pages. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$28.50] IN VERY GOOD TO NEAR FINE CONDITION.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Large hardback in very good condition with very good condition dust jacket. Some yellowing from age.

Cloth w/DJ. Zustand: FR/G. New York, NY: Praeger. FR/G. (1971). . Cloth w/DJ. 4to., 291 pp., DJ Price-clipped, yellowed, front hinge broken . Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover w/DJ. Zustand: Good +/Good. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers. Good +/Good. 1970. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 289 pp., dust jacket light shelf wear, wear to edges and corners, sunned and rubbed at spine and edges, otherwise good; cover corners and spine tips bumped, some rubbing to edges, otherwise quite good; Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown (measures approx. 3x5in.), edges of text block soiled, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Tipped-in Color Plates, B&W Plates, B&W Illus. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Color and black and white photographs by Pierre Devinoy throughout. Translated from the French by Diana Dolan. First American edition. Very good in a very good (age toning, four tape marks on verso from an old dust jacket protector) dust jacket.…

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

Cloth w/DJ. Zustand: G/VG. New York, NY: Praeger. G/VG. (1971). . Cloth w/DJ. 4to., 291 pp., DJ Price-clipped, yellowed, ffe folded . Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator).

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy quarto 289pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., index, Covers monumental Clocks; The Gothic Clock; The Renaissance etc., Ancient Measuring Instruments; Clepsydras & Hour Glasses; Topographical Instruments.

First edition. A most excellent illustrated history of the amazing and often lavish devices for measuring time and distance over five centuries. Photographs by Pierre Devinoy. Oblong 4to 10 1/4" X 10". Tan coarse cloth stamped in brown on spine. 420 excellent illustrations including 295 numbered B&W plate illustrations with descriptions. 20 terrific tipped in color plates. 289 text pages plus the plates. Dust jacket. Fine/near Fine.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 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. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First English language edition. First US edition 1971, first printing, translated from the German. Published by Praeger , printed in Switzerland. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition as new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no names no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ very good, no tears, slightly sunned and chipped at one spot at upper edge, price not clipped. Square 4to, 292 pages, illustrated with photographs, technical drawings and historic images. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. ASIN: B00116B9GG. Pierre Devinoy, Photographs (illustrator).…

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.