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Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Book shows considerable wear to covers in heavy red cloth with black print. Binding is solid and square, worn corners. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 524 pages of devices with fine line, b&w illustrations , fine print and prices. A trade catalog from L.E. Knott Apparatus Company of Boston presenting scientific instruments and laboratory equipment for physics, chemistry, and school science, illustrated with descriptions and prices of glassware, optical instruments, electrical apparatus, measuring devices, Geissler tube rotators, Unequally evacuated geissler tubes, Oersted's law apparatus, Paramagnetic and diamagnetic study apparatus, One hundred volt lifting magnet, Dynamos and motors, Artificial telephone lives, Selenium cells, etc. Keywords: L E Knott Boston, Laboratory Equipment, Physics Apparatus, Chemistry Equipment, Early 20th Century, Scientific Glassware, Optical Instruments, Measuring Devices, Trade Catalog, School Science, Electrical Apparatus, Laboratory Supply 2.

4to. [8], 507, [1] pp. Four pp. frontisp. insert announcing new building in Cambridge, with over 1000 text illustrations, diagrams, woodcut engravings. Brick-red publisher's cloth, black lettering & company logo on front cover (minor bumping to corners, minor sunning to spine, edgewear, some minor soiling, toning to endpapers), still VG copy, w/ publisher's notice mounted front pastedown. First edition of this uncommon, and one of the most expansive scientific instrument catalogues ever issued by the famed New England company. The Knott company organized under this name in 1895, targeted universities, high schools, laboratories, manufacturers and inventors across the World. Along with surveying, navigation, and mathematical instruments, they also sold water turbines, Bell glasses, demonstration jars, orreries, lantern slides, solar calculators, 3-dimensional geography models, and electrical equipment. Functioning and sectional model steam engines were available, colour apparatus, dynamos, and so much more could all be ordered. Worldcat locates 5 copies (Temple, Getty, U of Cincinnati, U of N. TX, Am. Inst. Physics).