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Brewington, M. V.

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

1963

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1963
Lieu d'édition
Salem, Staten Island. Peabody Museum; Maurizio Martino Publishers
Auteur
Brewington, M. V.
Edition
reprint of the first edition, limited to 300 copies [first
Thème
Travel - General Science & Technology
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

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.
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