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Last updated 28 August 2011
Banfield (E.): Antique Barometers: An Illustrated Survey NEW. 149 pages, illustrated, 2nd edition, 2008. A new enlarged edition which is a comprehensive introduction to the English domestic barometer. Card covers. (Ref: N19) More information…..Price: £9.95
Banfield (E.): Barometer Makers and Retailers 1660 - 1900 NEW. 246 pages, a few illustrations, 2000. A very useful listing of barometer makers and reailers. Also useful for dating Victorian clocks and scientific instruments sold by the same retailers after 1850. Soft covers. (Ref: N20) More information…..Price: £9.95
Banfield (E.): Barometers - Aneroid and Barographs NEW. 151 pages, 130 illus., reprinted 1996. The history of domestic, marine and mountain barometers, barographs, storm glasses, and weather houses. With dust jacket. (Ref: N21) More information…..Price: £11.95
Banfield (E.): Barometers - Stick or Cistern Tube NEW. 246 pages, 296 illus. First published 1985, reprinted 1996. The history and development of the stick barometer including domestic marine, station, Fitzroy and angle barometers. With dust jacket. (Ref: N22) More information…..Price: £14.95
Banfield (E.): Barometers - Wheel or Banjo NEW. 150 pages, 165 illustrations, 1985 reprinted 1999. The history and development of wheel barometers from 1663 to about 1900. With dust jacket. (Ref: N23) More information…..Price: £11.95
Banfield (E.): The Banfield Family Collection of Barometers NEW. 9 pages of text, 313 photographs, 14 pages of descriptions. A well illustrated survey of a large collection of barometers and barographs of all types. Each item is described and an estimate of date given. Card covers. (Ref: N426) More information…..Price: £6.95
Banfield (E.): The Italian Influence on English Barometers from 1780 NEW. 160 pages, 193 illustrations, 1993. A detailed investigation on the origins and background of the early Italian migrant barometer makers, with chapters on important makers including Negretti & Zambra. Soft covers. (Ref: N427) More information…..Price: £7.95
Bell (G.H.) & Bell (E.F.): Old English Barometers O/P. 42 pages, 40 plates, 1st and only edition, 1952. The first good book on barometers, still respected and now hard to find. A very good copy with very good dust jacket. (Ref: K734)Price: £120.00
Bolle (B.): Barometers O/P. 255 pages, 290 figs., first English edition, 1982. A good general guide to mercury and aneroid barometers, barographs and sympiesometers. A very good copy with good dust jacket (faded to spine). (Ref: K1097)Price: £20.00
Collins (P.R.): Aneroid Barometers and Their Restoration NEW. 212 pages, illus., 1998. A very comprehensive book on pocket and wall mounted aneroid barometers from their beginnings in 1844 to the late 20th century. The book includes information on the Bourdon and Vidi designs as well as altimeter and surveying variants. With dust jacket. (Ref: N79) More information…..Price: £18.95
Collins (P.R.): Barographs NEW. 146 pages, well illustrated in b&w, 2002. An excellent book illustrating the development of mercury and aneroid barographs from their origins until today. The book is very useful for dating barographs and also has a chapter on their maintenance. Card covers. (Ref: N428) More information…..Price: £9.95
Collins (P.R.): Bizarre Barometers and Other Unusual Weather Forecasters NEW. 103 pages, illustrated, 2004. A fascinating collection of strange weather instruments including the weather glass, the shark oil barometer, the weather house, the Tempest Prognosticator, the use of frogs, and many, many more!! Card covers. (Ref: N429) More information…..Price: £7.95
Collins (P.R.): Care and Restoration of Barometers NEW. 116 pages, illustrated, first published 1990, reprinted 1999. A useful book on the repair and restoration of wheel or banjo barometers from dismantling, through to the refilling of the tube with mercury. The book also gives advice on the handling and maintenance of barometers. Written by an experienced restorer. Card covers. (Ref: N430) More information…..Price: £6.95
Collins (P.R.): FitzRoy and his Barometers NEW. 144 pages, illustrated, 2007. An interesting book about Robert FitzRoy, Captain of HMS Beagle during the famous voyage with Charles Darwin, and in later life a passionate advocate of the use of the barometer to reduce fatalities at sea. The book concentrates on FitzRoy's contribution to meteorology and the barometer which bears his name. Card covers. (Ref: N1497) More information…..Price: £9.95
Goodison (N.): English Barometers 1680 - 1860 O/P. 388 pages, 194 plates, 2nd edition, 1977. An excellent history of domestic barometers with a listing of their makers; this is the best book on the subject. A good copy with good dust jacket. (Ref: K1028)Price: £55.00
Goodison (N.): English Barometers 1680 - 1860 O/P. 388 pages, 194 plates, 2nd edition, reprinted 1992. An excellent history of domestic barometers with a listing of their makers; this is the best book on the subject. A fine copy with fine dust jacket. (Ref: K757)Price: £60.00
Lester (E.R.): John Kalabergo of Banbury O/P. 99 pages + 32 page facsimile Banbury directory for 1851, 1975. John Kalabergo was born in Italy and settled in Banbury making and selling barometers and repairing and selling clocks. In 1851 Kalabergo's nephew, William Kalabergo, arrived from Italy to work for him, but within 3 months John was dead - murdered by his nephew. William Kalabergo was the last person to be publicly hanged at Oxford. A very good copy of the hardback edition. (Ref: K2309)Price: £18.00
Lester (E.R.): John Kalabergo of Banbury O/P. 99 pages + 32 page facsimile Banbury directory for 1851, 1975. John Kalabergo was born in Italy and settled in Banbury making and selling barometers and repairing and selling clocks. In 1851 Kalabergo's nephew, William Kalabergo, arrived from Italy to work for him, but within 3 months John was dead - murdered by his nephew. William Kalabergo was the last person to be publicly hanged at Oxford. A very good copy, card covers a little creased. (Ref: K2206)Price: £15.00
Middleton (W.E. K.): The History of the Barometer NEW. 489 pages, lots of figures, the 1994 reprint of a book first published in 1964. This is an excellent detailed account of the barometer from its invention by Torricelli in the 1640's and all the improvements made up to about 1950. Mercury barometers and barographs are studied in detail, as is the development of aneroid mechanisms. The appendix describes the more important barometers studied by the author in museums and institutions around the world. With dust jacket. (Ref: N435) More information…..Price: £24.95
Negretti & Zambra: A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments NEW. 176 pages, reprint of a book first published in 1864. A detailed work describing the principles and construction of barometers, hygrometers, rain guages, anemometers, ozonometers and other meteorological instruments. Paperback. (Ref: N224) More information…..Price: £7.95
