Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
BECKMANN, JOHANN. A History of Inventions and Discoveries.<> 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary straight-grain navy morocco, spines attractively gilt, bindings scuffed, slight discoloration on a few covers, Volume 1 front joint starting, Volume 4 spine chipped at top; Volume 3 opening leaves foxed. London, 1814

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Second edition in English of Beckmann's 1786-1805 Beyträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen, "an admirable collection of historical descriptions of individual inventions"--DSB I, 555.<