first edition
1991 · New York
by Roberts, Verne L. & Ivy Trent
New York: Jonathan A. Hill, 1991. xiv, 391p., frontis portrait of Isaac Newton and other period images, hardbound, one of one thousand handsome clothbound specimens in a run of eleven hundred with leather additional; text records an immense number of personal holdings in the field of mechanics, its development in Europe, with professionally researched annotations, item gotten-up in fine-press mode by Austin TX bookmen: figured paper over 11.5x8.5 inch clothbacked boards, as-new shape in a worn, slightly soiled & toned shipping jacket (blank white). Very strong in English-language treatments.
(Inventory #: 262940)