Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Libros antiguos y modernos

Brewington, M. V.

The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on their Makers

1963

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

Habla con el librero

Formas de Pago

Detalles

Año de publicación
1963
Lugar de impresión
Salem, Staten Island. Peabody Museum; Maurizio Martino Publishers
Autor
Brewington, M. V.
Edición
reprint of the first edition, limited to 300 copies [first
Materia
Travel - General Science & Technology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [27 x 18 cm]; xii, 154, [i] pp, 57 plates with frontis, from photos, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean, not issued with a dust jacket. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The work, which has become a standard reference work on the subject, describes 413 instruments and 150 instrument makers. Includes quadrants, astrolabes, sextants, circles, artificial horizons, lodestones, compasses, ring dials, nocturnals, sand glasses, chronometers, clocks, dead reckoning recorders, graphic tools, sounders, telescopes, tide calculators, computers, barometers, orreries, planispheres, etc.
Logo Maremagnum es