Sotheran's Price Current of Literature, Números 770-771Henry Sotheran & Company, 1918 |
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... interesting illustrations , titlepages and important textual passages from rare or historically important works , and a very copious analytical Subject - Index . The subscription price of the Illustrated Edition , bound in cloth and ...
... interesting illustrations , titlepages and important textual passages from rare or historically important works , and a very copious analytical Subject - Index . The subscription price of the Illustrated Edition , bound in cloth and ...
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... interesting feature is the full and intimate biographies of deceased members of the Institution . TRANSACTIONS of the , with fine portrait of Telford , and 69 fine plates ( mostly folding , and one of autographs of Engineers ) ...
... interesting feature is the full and intimate biographies of deceased members of the Institution . TRANSACTIONS of the , with fine portrait of Telford , and 69 fine plates ( mostly folding , and one of autographs of Engineers ) ...
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... interesting publication , meant also to show ' to what other useful purposes inventions may be directed and discoveries extended , beyond the original views of their authors . ' 183 ROYAL INSTITUTION , PROCEEDINGS OF THE , with ...
... interesting publication , meant also to show ' to what other useful purposes inventions may be directed and discoveries extended , beyond the original views of their authors . ' 183 ROYAL INSTITUTION , PROCEEDINGS OF THE , with ...
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... interesting for having belonged to RICHARD WATSON , the learned but absentee Bp . of Llandaff , F.R.S. , and sometime professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University ( 1737-1816 ) , who has added his autograph on the titles of vols . I ...
... interesting for having belonged to RICHARD WATSON , the learned but absentee Bp . of Llandaff , F.R.S. , and sometime professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University ( 1737-1816 ) , who has added his autograph on the titles of vols . I ...
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... interesting correspondence of scientists of the period not elsewhere to be found , and one of the only two publications issued by the short - lived ' Historical Society of Science , ' which Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps founded .. RARA ...
... interesting correspondence of scientists of the period not elsewhere to be found , and one of the only two publications issued by the short - lived ' Historical Society of Science , ' which Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps founded .. RARA ...
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