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Andrew Hunter, ed.
Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in relation to the History of Science; fourth edition.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
ISBN 1859282334.
Hardback, perfect bound.
164x239x27mm.
xii,405pp inc. 8 monochrome illustrations.
English.
Generally very good condition, an unused copy: the book seems to be fine, but the dustjacket is damaged, with some minor crumpling to the edges, and a slash about two-thirds of the way up the front gusset.This item £14.50
[Publisher's price £85.00/$165.00]
779g.
No medieval emphasis. Contents:
Lowood & Rider, The scientific book as a cultural & bibliographical object;
Taub, Ancient science;
Livesey, Scientific writing in the Latin middle ages;
Sesiano, Islamic science;
Kusukawa, Incunables & 16th-c books;
Nummedal & Findlen, Scientific books in the 17th-c.;
Ford, 18th-c. scientific publishing;
James, Books on the natural sciences in the 19th-c.;
Meadows, Science publishing in the 20th-c.;
Brock, Scientific bibliographies & bibliographers, & the history of the history of science;
Mandelbrote, Scientific books & their owners, to c. 1720;
Overmier, Scientific book collectors & collections, public & private, 1720 to date.
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