Needham, Joseph

SCIENCE & CIVILISATION IN CHINA [NINE VOLUMES ONLY]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954-1980. Nine volumes. Octavos. Volume 1: Introductory Orientations (xxxviii, 318 pages + 2 folding maps); Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought (xxii, [2], 696 pages); Volume 3: mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth (xlvii, 877 pages); Volume 4, Part I: Physics and Physical Technology: Physics (xxxiv, 434 pages); Volume 4, Part II: Physics and Physical Technology: Mechanical Engineering (lv, 759 pages); Volume 4, Part III: Physics and Physical Technology: Civil Engineering and Nautics (lvii, 931 pages + 3 folding maps); Volume 5, Part II: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality (xxxii, 510 pages); Volume 5, Part III: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin (xxxv, 481 pages); Volume 5, Part IV: Chemistry and Chemical Technology: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts (xlviii, 772 pages). Very good/Good to Very good-. All volumes in matching dust jackets with off-white spines and black lettering. Dust jackets in varying condition, good to very good-; All shelf-worn, lightly marked, and lightly age-toned with prices clipped; several with tears to edges. Bindings lightly shelf-worn; Text blocks lightly age-toned. Please see photographs for further details of condition. SH consignment.

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Price: $1,000

NOTES

Please note that Volume V: Part I is not included in this listing.