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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.
Published Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
ISBN 1859282334.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Size: 164×239×27mm.
Page count: xii,405pp inc. 8 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy is unused but warehouse-damaged: the dustjacket is damaged, with some crumpling on its edges, and a slash about two-thirds of the way up its front gusset; the book itself looks in good order.

This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £85.00/$165.00]
Weight without packaging: 779g.

How to order this book

No overall 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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