Daumas, Maurice

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES AND THEIR MAKERS.

Translated and edited by Dr. Mary Holbrook. Pp. [vi]+362(last blank), 64 plates, text figures, appendix, references, libraries, archives and collections, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly scuffed; top edges green; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly marked, edges a trifle rubbed; tiny inked cross near top edge p. 237; B. T. Batsford Limited, London, 1972. First U.K. edition. *Originally published in French in 1953. Item #184147

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