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  • Symbiosis and style : the production, sale and purchase of instruments in the luxury markets of eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker
  • Selling by the book : British scientific trade literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub
  • The gentle art of persuasion : advertising instruments during Britain's industrial revolution / Alison D. Morrison-Low
  • Some considerations about the prices of physics instruments in the nineteenth century / Paolo Brenni
  • Mathematical instruments changing hands at world's fairs, 1851-1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
  • Connections between the instrument-making trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American continent / Gloria Clifton
  • European pocket sundials for colonial use in American territories / Sara J. Schechner
  • Selling mathematical instruments in America before the printed trade catalogue / Richard L. Kremer
  • Trade in medical instruments and colonialist policies between Mexico and Europe in the nineteenth century / Laura Chazaro.