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A History of Magic and Experimental Science.


Book Description
Later reprints of first edition. 8 vols., 8vo., pp. xl, 835; vi, 1036; xxvi, 827; xxviii, 767; xxii, 695; xviii, 766; x, 695; viii, 808. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, blind stamp of Columbia University insignia to upper board of all except Vol. III. Issued without dust-jackets, but 6 volumes retaining publisher’s protective tissue covers. Minor signs of shelf-wear in all volumes but not readership in most, a little scattered foxing to edges of a couple of volumes; overall, a very good set.
Dealer Notes
[Vols. I & II] During the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era; [Vols. III & IV] Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; [Vols. V & VI] The Sixteenth Century; [Vol. VII & VIII] The Seventeenth Century.
Although dated as first published, all these volumes are numbered as later impressions (I & II seventh; III - VI sixth; VII & VIII fifth), and all have 10-digit ISBNs, and so were printed sometime between 1970 and 2007. For a work commenced by the author in 1902, this continuity in print is testament indeed to the durability of scholarship and application.
Although dated as first published, all these volumes are numbered as later impressions (I & II seventh; III - VI sixth; VII & VIII fifth), and all have 10-digit ISBNs, and so were printed sometime between 1970 and 2007. For a work commenced by the author in 1902, this continuity in print is testament indeed to the durability of scholarship and application.
Author
Thorndike, Lynn:
Date
1923; 1934; 1941; 1958.
Publisher
New York: Columbia University Press,
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