1970 A History of Magic and Experimental Science

Description

Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

A complete eight volume set of this work. First published between 1923 and 1958, this so-called 'reprint edition' was published in 1970, as identified by the presence of ISBNs to the title page versos of volumes 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8.

Volumes I and II are eighth printings of this edition, vols. III, IV, V and VI are seventh printings, and volumes VII and VIII are sixth printings.

Volumes IV-VIII retain the very scarce original glassine.

Lynn Thorndike was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy, who authored many works on magic and science.

Each volume is dedicated to magic and experimental science in different periods:

Vol. I: The First Thirteen Centuries: The Roman Empire; Early Christian Thought; The Early Middle Ages

Vol. II: The First Thirteen Centuries: The Twelfth Century; The Thirteenth Century

Vols. III and IV: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Vols. V and VI: The Sixteenth Century

Vols. VII and VIII: The Seventeenth Century

This work is scarce in a complete eight volume set of any edition.