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The Gallery Offers an exclusive list of books on historic scientific instruments, some out of print (marked with an asterisk) and therefore difficult to obtain, others hot off the press. Below is a selection of the titles available.

 

A Measure of Time                  by Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd                        £25.00
Barographs
by Philip R Collins 
£10.00

Charts of War

by  John Blake
£30.00
The Clockwork of the Heavens
by Asprey and Company 
£50.00
Dial in Your Poke                               by Mike Cowham                       £100.00
Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers
by Gloria Clifton
£65.00
Elizabethan Instrument Makers
by Gerard L E Turner 
£80.00
European Clocks and Watchers in the Near East
by O Kurz 
£40.00
The  Geometry of War    by Jim Bennett & Stepehen Johnston                        £40.00
Globes at Greenwich                                   by Elly Dekker                       £450.00
Globi Neerlandici
Peter van der Krogt
£550.00
Italian Renaissance Scientific Instruments
by Collezione Koelliker 
£60.00
Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg
by Peneleope Gouk
£50.00
Marine and Pocket Chronometers
         by H. Von Bertele    
£100.00
Nautical Antiques
by Robert W.D. Ball
£35.00
Of Heaven and Earth
by A. Morton & J. Wess*
£125.00
POW books: A two book cased volume cased set, The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoner of War 1756-1816 and A History of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756-1816                                by Clive L Lloyd                        £80.00
Quest for Longitude
by William Andrewes
£50.00
The Sea Chart
by John Blake 
£30.00
Sea Chart of the British Isles                                    by John Blake                        £20.00
Sextants at Greenwich                               by Morzer Bruyns                       £140.00
Scientific Instruments 1500-1900
by Professor G. L¹E Turner
£25.00
Sphaerae Mundi              by Edward H Dahl & J F Gavin                        £50.00
Sundials at Greenwich
by Hester Higton 
£300.00
Watches                            by David Thompson                        £40.00
Western Astrolabes (Adler Planetarium, Chicago)
by R.& M. Webster
£65.00
 



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