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Reference: Scientific Instruments

Ditisheim, Paul. Bibliographie générale de la mesure du temps, suivie d'un essai de classification technique et géographique. Paris: Tardy, 1947. First Edition. Bound in red cloth, gilt spine. 352 pp. + [1, Addenda]. Pencil owner's name on flyleaf, Very Good. $125.

Extensive bibliography of clocks, watches, chronometers, horology. Scarce in this edition. Preface dated 1943, but all sources give the edition date as 1947; was publication delayed by the war?

Multhauf, Robert P. & Davies, David. A Catalogue of Instruments and Models in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1961. xi + 80 pp., plates. Blue cloth, a near Fine copy in a chipped dust jacket. $30.

A range of instruments and makers are covered: a clock by Rittenhouse, a refractive sundial by Christopher Schissler, apparatus used by Benjamin Franklin, and so on.

Stevenson, Edward Luther. Terrestrial and Celestial Globes: Their History and Construction ... Mansfield Centre, CN: Martino Fine Books, 1998, 2 volumes bound as one. ½" x 6". frontis. + xxvi + 218 pp., illus. + frontis. + xi + 291 pp., illus. Fine copy. $100.

Originally published in 1921, this work is a valuable history, covering antiquity to the 18th century. The reprint edition (limited to 300 copies only) includes both volumes of the original work in one volume.

Warner, Deborah Jean. Alvan Clark & Sons; Artists in Optics. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1968 ("U.S. National Museum Bulletin 274"). First Edition. Blue cloth (gilt telescope on front), 120 pp., photo illustrations. Fine copy. $50.

Scholarly account of the premier American telescope makers. Includes a list of all known surviving instruments as of the date of publication.

Wynter, Harriet & Turner, Anthony. Scientific Instruments. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First American Edition. Quarto, frontis. + 239 pp., illustrated, color and black & white plates. Tan cloth (small tear in front hinge), pictorial dust jacket (price clipped) and endpapers, a Very Good copy. $95.

Covers astronomy, navigation, sundials, surveying, and optics (mostly microscopes).