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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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9,000 USD
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(Science Reference - History of Science)
A collection of 20th century books about the history of science, comprising 87 volumes, including:
Cohen, I. Bernard, Introduction to Newton's 'Principia,' Cambridge, MA, 1971, 4to, hardcover in dustjacket
Koyre, Alexandre, I. Bernard Cohen, et. al., Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica... Cambridge, MA, 1972, 2 vols., 4to, hardcover in dustjacket
Thorndike, Lynn, A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era, New York, 1943, 3rd printing, 8 vols., 8vo, hardcover (volume VIII retaining the dustjacket)
Horblitt, Harrison D., One Hundred Books Famous in Science, New York, 1964, one of 1000 copies printed for the Grolier Club, 4to, hardcover in slipcase
Stahl, William H., Roman Science: Origins, Development, and Influence to the Later Middle Ages, Madison, WI, 1962, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
Drake, Stillman, and I.E. Drabkin, Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy..., Madison, WI, 1969, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
Rhys, Hedley Howell (editor), Stephen Toulmin, et al., Seventeenth Century Science and the Arts, Princeton, NJ, 1961, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
Clagett, Marshall (editor), et al., Critical Problems in the History of Science, Madison, WI, 1959, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
Nicholson, Marjorie Hope, Pepys' Diary and the New Science, Charlottesville, VA, 1965, Madison, WI, 1962, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
Bernal, J. D., The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before the Quantum, Cambridge, MA, 1972, Madison, WI, 1962, 8vo, hardcover in dustjacket
A full list of books in this lot is available on request.
Sold as a group, not subject to return
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