The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

by William Stanley Jevons

$2,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition. Two volumes, octavo. Original brown pebble-grain cloth, spines lettered in gilt, housed in a custom black cloth box. Frontispiece of the reasoning machine with tissue-guard to volume one, armorial bookplates of Vincent Henry Stanton to front pastedowns. Upper hinges cracked but holding firm, foxing to preliminary and rear leaves, some pencilled marginalia,

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