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One Hundred Books Famous in Science Based on an Exhibition Held at The Grolier Club (no dj, ex-lib ) Limited Edition of 1000 Copies
Horblit, Harrison D. · New York
- Author
- Horblit, Harrison D.
- Date
- 1964
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- The Grolier Club
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to.(8" x 11") 449 pp. lacking dust jacket.. Hardback in medium blue and gray buckram, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, medium blue endpapers. Minor edgewear, remanants of sticker to rear cover, small lightre spots to fore-edges of boards, white library manuscript to spine. Fargo Public Library stamps to bottom edge of textblock, first and last free endpaper, reverse of title page. Beautiful illustrations of Title Pages, Frontispieces, and select plates of 100 of the greatest books of early scientific discoveries. A rather scarce title.
- Format
- Limitation page states: The Committee on Publications of The Grolier Club certifies that this copy of One Hundred Books Famous in Science is one of one thousand copies printed during the year nineteen hundred and sixty-four. Books featured include those authored by: Agricola, Ampere, Apollonius, Archimedes, Aristotle, Bacon, Baer, Bernard, Borelli, Camerarius, Copernicus, Cuvier, Darwin, Descartes, De Vries, Diderot, Einstein, Euclid, Faraday, Fermat, Franklin, Freud, Galen, Galilie, Galvani, Gauss, Gesner, Guericke, Harvey, Humboldt, Jenner, Kelpler, Koch, Laplace, Lavoisser, Liebig, Linnaeus, Maxwell, Mendel, Muller, Napier, Newton, Ohm, Pasteur, Pavlov, Planck, Playfair, Pliny, Priestley, Ptolemy, Rontgen, Rutherford, Schwann, Steno, Vesalius, Volta and many more...
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.9359
One Hundred Books Famous in Science Based on an Exhibition Held at The Grolier Club (no dj, ex-lib ) Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. 4to.(8" x 11") 449 pp. lacking dust jacket. Hardback in medium blue and gray buckram, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, medium blue endpapers. Minor edgewear, remnants of sticker to rear cover, small lighter spots to fore-edges of boards, white library manuscript to spine, ink stamp and small lettering to first free endpaper. Fargo Public Library stamps to bottom edge of textblock, first and last free endpaper, reverse of title page. Beautiful illustrations of Title Pages, Frontispieces, and select plates of 100 of the greatest books of early scientific discoveries. A rather scarce title. Books featured include those authored by: Agricola, Ampere, Apollonius, Archimedes, Aristotle, Bacon, Baer, Bernard, Borelli, Camerarius, Copernicus, Cuvier, Darwin, Descartes, De Vries, Diderot, Einstein, Euclid, Faraday, Fermat, Franklin, Freud, Galen, Galilie, Galvani, Gauss, Gesner, Guericke, Harvey, Humboldt, Jenner, Kelpler, Koch, Laplace, Lavoisser, Liebig, Linnaeus, Maxwell, Mendel, Muller, Napier, Newton, Ohm, Pasteur, Pavlov, Planck, Playfair, Pliny, Priestley, Ptolemy, Rontgen, Rutherford, Schwann, Steno, Vesalius, Volta and many more...
Condition
Good
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