Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3 Mathematics and the Science of the Heavens and the Earth

by Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, research assistance

$150 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

London: The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo 25cm ; black cloth spine over pictorial grey cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xlviii , 1 ,2-874, 6 pp; black-and-white illustrations, including fold-out illustrations. Pencilled price to front endpaper. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with light rubbing to lower board edges;

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