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- Used
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 225.00
Quantity: 1 available
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A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Richard Helsham, Published by Bryan Robinson, printed for J. Nourse, London, 1767, 404 pages plus publisher’s list, with eight fold-out plates, leather, 8vo. In fair condition. Boards are afflicted with past water damage that permeates and effects end pages. Corners show signs of being swollen with water and have loss. Hinges are cracking, but intact. Nice spine with raised bands and gilt work. Previous owner’s name on front paste down with old hand marginalia. Torn front end page. Sporadic thumb marks throughout. Plates fold out with ease. Light foxing throughout. Binding intact. Please see photos. Richard Helsham was an 18th-century Dublin Medical doctor, a well-known public figure, and a personal physician to Johnathan Swift, author or “Gulliver’s Travels”. Following his death, in 1739, his pupil Bryan Robinson, another doctor, published this book. Robinson added a preface, quoting Newton on methodology in physics. This went through eight editions, this is the fourth. It became a very popular university physics textbook for almost a century. COLN1767BHIA.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy
- Author
- Richard Helsham
- Publisher
- J. Nourse
- Publication year
- 1767
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Collectibles Room
ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.
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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Inc. (Rare Books Division)
3401 North Sixth Street
Harrisburg, PA U.S.A. 17110
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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.
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