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2 volumes, 4to (28.5 cm), frontispiece, LXXX, 511 pp, 17 plates; XVI, pp. 513-1007 pp, 15 plates. Publisher's black and red cloth (edges slightly foxed, minor wear to extremities). Limited to 500 copies. The catalogue of the collection formed by a psychiatrist Haskell F. Norman from San Francisco, encompassing descriptions of 2,595 medical, mathematical, and scientific works collected over four decades. "This catalogue is intended both as a record of the library and as detailed bibliographical guide to many first editions of classic of science and medicine for collectors, librarians and booksellers. While numerous individual authors and scientific and medical subjects represented in this catalogue have previously received detailed bibliographical treatment, this is the first catalogue to provide complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, for a very wide range of the classics in the history of science and medicine." (from the preface by Jeremy Norman). Included two insightful essays: "My education as a bibliophile" by Haskell Norman and "This catalogue and its predecessors" by Jeremy Norman. Seller Inventory # 008729
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & ...
Publisher: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc, San Francisco
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
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