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(Science Reference - History of Science) | A collection of 87 volumes

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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