(Science Reference - Bibliography) | A collection of 38 volumes

(Science Reference - Bibliography)

A collection of scientific bibliography, general bibliography, institutional history, bibliophile biography, and a facsimile, comprising 38 volumes, including:

Salusbury, Thomas, Stillman Drake (intro.), Mathematical Collections and Translations in Two Tomes... in Facsimile, Los Angeles, 1967, limited edition, copy no. 29 of 200, 2 vols., Fol., full brown morocco with gilt spine labels, with a 1-page typed letter signed by Stillman Drake to Robert S. Dunham dated 1966 and two photographic prints of a Galileo exhibition at Westport Public Library dated 1964 laid in

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton... New York, 1950, with A Supplement to the Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection..., Babson Park, MA, 1955, both 4to, hardcover

Dibner, Bern, Heralds of Science, Norwalk, CT, 1955, 4to, hardcover, with related cuttings, pamphlets, and other materials laid in, binding defective

Carter, John, Percy H. Muir, et al., Printing and the Mind of Man..., New York, 1967, First edition, fol., hardcover in dustjacket

Blumenthal, Joseph (intro.), Art of the Printed Book, 1455-1955: Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1973, fol., hardcover in dustjacket, related newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, and an offprint laid in

Weaver, William, Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals, in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, 1909, 2 vols, 8vo, hardcover in defective slipcase

Chappell, Warren, A Short History of the Printed Word, New York, 1970, 8vo, hardcover in jacket

Rostenberg, Leona, and Madeleine B. Stern, Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business, New York, 1974, together with, Between Boards: New Thoughts on Old Books, New York, 1977, 8vo, hardcovers in dustjackets

Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing, 1450-1550: An Annotated Checklist... New York, 1970, 4to, hardcover

Fitzgerald, Percy, The Book Fancier, or the Romance of Book Collecting, New York, 1887, second edition, revised, 8vo, hardcover

A full list of books in this lot is available on request.

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