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Norman Atkinson, SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH 'The World's Best Mechanician'. Norman Atkinson, SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH 'The World's Best Mechanician'. Ref: 7213
Puvblished by Sutton Publishing.

The first full length biography of the man whom most consider to be Britiain's best ever mechanical engineer, pioneering a new machine tool era with his designs and giving the western world its first one-inch standard.
"a readable but authoritative biography". Lord Flowers F.R.S. "long overue...a fascinatimg account of a great man".

235 x155 mm. xiv + 338. 28 b&w photographic plates and 10 drawings. pb. 


Price: £35.00

CALVERT'S MECHANICS ALMANACK. CALVERT'S MECHANICS ALMANACK. Ref: 1010
J. Calvert.
Published by John Heywood

Sixth Edition, with Preface to this edition dated August, 1879. Brown cloth. The frontispiece is an actual photograph of Calvert (Warwick Brookes, Photo, Manchester) with his signature printed below. Some fading and rubbing to cloth including to corners of boards and head and foot of spine; generally very good

185 x 135 mm. 16 (preliminaries and Index); 17-344 (the Almanacks); 345-400 (the Treatise); 110 (Catalogue of Books etc); plus Index iv and adverts vi pp. Hardback.

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Price: £30.00

Maya Hambly, DRAWING INSTRUMENTS 1580 - 1980. Maya Hambly, DRAWING INSTRUMENTS 1580 - 1980. Ref: 9030
Published by Philip Wilson.

The authoritative text.

245 x 184 mm. 224 pp. 19 colour and 170 black & white illustrations. hb. Jacketed. 


Price: £70.00

Christopher Knight Sanders, A SERIES OF TABLES IN WHICH THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF FRANCE REDUCED TO THE ENGLISH STANDARD. Christopher Knight Sanders, A SERIES OF TABLES IN WHICH THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF FRANCE REDUCED TO THE ENGLISH STANDARD. Ref: 7304
The author, a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineer Corps, compiled the book in 1825 after having examined the two reports of the Royal Commision on Weights and Measures set up in 1816 to decide on the precise value of the French metre in terms of English inches, together with the report of the French National Assembly in 1791 on coverting their old system of weights and measures into their new system. Sanders produced this book with comments and tables converting every conceivable French measure into its English equivalent: \i From French TOISES into English. FEET and Inches; French METRES into English YARDS.;French KILOGRAMMES into English POUNDS (troy)\i0 ; some 42 tables in all. An important document. There is a stamp on the title page of STANDARDS DEPARTMENT BOARD OF TRADE, a book plate and a signature on the title page with a date of 11 July 1827 donating the book. Some staining on the cover with the corners and edges of boards burred. An extremely rare title.

230 x 145 mm. iv + 108 pp. 42 tables hb.

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Price: £125.00

Samuel Wyld. THE PRACTICAL SURVEYOR. Samuel Wyld. THE PRACTICAL SURVEYOR. Ref: 5202
Printed for TW Johnston in Ludgate Street.

Sixth edition 1769. London, 'Corrected and Enlarged by a Careful Hand And Illustrated with Several Copper Plates,' approx. Rebound in half leather with marbled paper over boards gilt title on red leather fixed to a gilt-banded spine, Fold-out frontispiece showing instruments opposite title page (slight tear), title page gives details of the book's contents, 6 foldout plates detailing 46 figures. Condition very good considering the age

200 x 125 mm. viii + 192 pp. 7 foldout plates detailing 47 figures. Hardback.

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Price: £185.00