An exhibition guide and catalogue that includes 16 b&w plates.  Paperback.  50 pages.  Slight spine stain, otherwise in good condition.  Cat No 5080

Paperback.  32 pages.  Interesting bookplate.  In good clean condition.  Cat No 5051

An exhibition catalogue of ceramic spittoons first introduced around 1800 and in common use until the eraly years of the C20th.  The development, purpose and decline of this specifically designed receptacle are followed by colour photographs of 62 examples.  Paperback.  38 pages.

Examines the mechanisms of time measuring devices that regulate by the consistent flow of water in or out of the device, a technique employed from the most ancient Egyptian and Babylonian times but reaching its apogee during the Medieval Islamic period where the principles of Archimedes instructi

A complete history, from the 1890's onwards, of the evolution of coin-operated entertainment slot-machines - bagatelle, pinball, 'what-the-butler-saw' and one-armed bandits - illustrated throughout in colour.  Includes a bibliography.  Large paperback.  28 pages.

A fantastically detailed survey of barrel-organs and their whereabouts commencing with the history of church barrel-organs and their mechanisms.  A long list follows of the many tunes (both religious and secular) they played.

A representative selection of old musical instruments from the collection of Hungary's National Museum dating from the C17th and C18th - virginals, clavichords, a giraffe piano, a chitarbone, lutes, a mandola, a viola da gamba, a pochette d'amour, oboes, a serpent, flutes and trombones.

An attractive colour guide to the collections of National Museum Boerhaave that reflect five centuries of the history of science in the Netherlands such as the microscopes of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens, the oldest heliocentric planetarium in the world,

An extraordinarily comprehensive survey of the history of lamps and lighting appliances, from the very earliest rushlights and candlesticks via chapters on: Greek lamps; Roman lamps; Hanukkah lamps; Indian lamps; medieval lamps; and culminating with sections on lighthouses and early street lighti

A short history of pharmacy and the role tin-glazed apothecary jars played as storage vessels for medicaments in shops and monastic dispensaries.  A lengthy catalogue of the museums's collection follows divided by country of origin - Italy, Flanders, France and England - dated from the mid-C