Longitude, An Appeal to the Public: stating Mr. Thomas Earnshaw's Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements in his Timekeepers .
by Thomas Earnshaw
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0950962120
- ISBN 13
- 9780950962122
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Newark, England: British Horological Institute, 1986. Numbered 107 out of an edition of 350 copies. Quarter leather binding. Brown morocco spine with gilt lettering, marbled papered boards.xxii, 280 pages plus 35 pages of appendices, frontispiece portrait of Thomas Earnshaw plus six further plates. This is a facsimile reprint of Earnshaw's appeal to the Board of Longitude for a reward for his inventions, first published in 1808, with a new introduction by John Griffiths. Very good copy in glassine wrapper.. Limited Edition, First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008407
- Title
- Longitude, An Appeal to the Public: stating Mr. Thomas Earnshaw's Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements in his Timekeepers .
- Author
- Thomas Earnshaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0950962120
- ISBN 13
- 9780950962122
- Publisher
- British Horological Institute
- Place of Publication
- Newark, England
- Date Published
- 1986
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Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
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