Shapero Rare Books have a strong client-base for books on science and medicine, and have over the years enjoyed buying & selling some of the most significant printed works on physics, engineering, chemistry, evolution, mathematics, anatomy and medicine recorded, including works by such luminaries as Euclid, Galileo, Newton, William Harvey, Darwin, Einstein and Bertrand Russell.
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Science & Medicine
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First edition, second issue (without the errata to verso of title of vol. II and errors in vol. I corrected). 8vo., viii, 423; ix, 47 5pp., ads to verso of title, 16 pages ads dated January 1871 at end of both volumes, illustrations in text, publisher's green cloth, rules in blind to boards, titles to spines gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription to each front free endpaper, minor rubbing to extremities, hinges repaired, trivial spotting early and late. An excellent set.
£3,500
