London, Constable, 1921. xii, 335 pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm.). Original cloth (slightly dust soiled and rubbed). With a frontispiece and 157 plates.
The rare original edition of a valuable work, illustrating 313 kinds of scientific instruments. This book is not only a means of information and reference respecting scientific instruments of every description, but also exhibits the great variety of such instruments that were produced in Great Britain during the first decades of the 20th century. --(Last 30 leaves have some fainnt damp staining in the upper marging).