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Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in Smithsonian Collections
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Standard Company Name: Negretti and Zambra
Company Name: Negretti & Zambra
Title: Mathematical & Surveying Instruments, Theodolites, Levels, Circumferenters, Compasses, Etc.
Imprint: England (London: 18--)
Pagination and Size: 35 p.; 25 x 16 cm
Material Type and Language: Trade catalogs; English
Instrument Types: Instruments represented: theodolites, levels and surveying instruments
Notes: Item Number: 51629. Includes index; prices; price flier inserted.
Subject Area: Surveying ; Drawing Instruments
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Standard Company Name: Negretti and Zambra
Company Name: Negretti & Zambra
Title: Supplementary Price List / Negretti & Zambra, Opticians and Scientific Instrument Makers Sir William Thomson's Improved Pattern Tide Gauges
Imprint: England (London: 18--)
Pagination and Size: 8 p.; 28 x 22 cm
Material Type and Language: Trade catalogs; English
Instrument Types: Instruments represented: tide gauges and pyrometers
Notes: Item Number: 51630. Includes prices.
Subject Area: Navigation ; Engineering ; Surveying
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Standard Company Name: Negretti and Zambra
Company Name: Negretti & Zambra
Title: Negretti & Zambra's Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue / of Optical, Mathematical, Philosophical, Photographic and Standard Meteorological Instruments
Imprint: England (London: 187-)
Pagination and Size: 564 p.; 24 x 17 cm
Material Type and Language: Trade catalogs; English
Instrument Types: Instruments represented: thermometers, microscopes and photographic apparatus
Notes: Item Number: 51789. Includes honorary awards; inventions and improvements; contents; preface; description of instruments; prices; index; scientific publications; letter inserted.
Subject Area: Physics ; Photography ; Meteorology
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Standard Company Name: Negretti and Zambra
Company Name: Negretti & Zambra
Title: Treatise on meteorological instruments / Their scientific principles, method of construction, and practical utility
Imprint: England (London: 1864)
Pagination and Size: 160 p.; 24 x 15 cm
Material Type and Language: Trade catalogs; English
Instrument Types: Instruments represented: barometers, thermometers and hygrometers
Notes: Item Number: 52539. Includes preface; table of contents; description of instruments; history, construction and use of instruments; price list.
Subject Area: Meteorology
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Standard Company Name: Negretti and Zambra
Company Name: Negretti & Zambra
Title: Self-Recording Tide Gauges
Imprint: England (London: 18--)
Pagination and Size: 2 p.; 16 x 25 cm
Material Type and Language: Trade catalogs; English
Instrument Types: Instruments represented: tide gauges, water levels, anemometers
Notes: Item Number: 52575. Includes description of instruments; price list.
Subject Area: Navigation ; Meteorology ; Geophysics
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