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Burndy Library and Smithsonian Institute, Norwalk and Washington, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. 750 g.; (6), VII-XIII, (1), 96, (2) pages, introduction by Robert R. Multhauf, Senior Historian, Smithsonian Institution, preface to the 1980 edition by Bern Dibner, preface to the 1955 edition by Bern Dibner and index. Copper coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous illustrations from within the pamphlets/books cited. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed illustration to the front panel and copper titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the book corners and backstrip corners. A few marks to the book panels and a faint blue mark to the front fore text edge. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page. " The books described here were selected by Bern Dibner, large collection of scientific and technical works assemble biking over a period of nearly fifty years, as representative of landmark…
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Heralds of Science; As Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution
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Heralds of Science: As Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution ; 25th Anniversary Edition [Second edition revised and enlarged]
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Norwalk, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.: Published on behalf of Burndy Library and Smithsonian Institution by N. Watson Academic Publications, 1980. First Printing. Boards. Fine. First Printing. xiii,[1-blank],96 pages. Publisher's original blue boards with blind stamped decoration on front panel and copper colored title lettering on the spine. No dj as issued. Boards. Also published as a cream colored softcover edition, this is the HARDCOVER edition of the second revised and enlarged edition, published on the 25th anniversary of the 1955 original. 'The books described here were selected by Bern Dibner from a large collection of scientific and technical works assembled by him over a period of nearly fifty years, as representative of landmarks in the history of science and technology. They are part of about 10,000 books which he presented in 1976 to the Smithsonian Institition, with a few to the establishment of a national center for research in these fields.' (from the original introduction) Here…
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Heralds of science: as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution / pref. and notes by Bern Dibner; introd. by Robert P. Multhauf
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New York N.Y. : Published on behalf of Burndy Library and Smithsonian Institution by N. Watson Academic Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 96 pages: illustrations; 27 cm. Subjects: Dibner Library; Catalogs. Burndy Libraries Catalogs. Science History Sources; Bibliography.Science Early works to 1800; Bibliography.
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