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WARD, JOHN. The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College; to which is prefixed, The Life of the Founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. 5 engraved plates, including 2 folding views. [4], xxiv, 338; [2], 156 pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary calf, lettering piece off, spine ends chipped, front cover and free endpaper detached; offsetting from plates onto facing pages, mostly minor foxing, scattered marginalia. London: John Moore for the Author, W. Innys, et al., 1740
first edition of a collection of brief biographies organized by subjects taught, with an appendix reprinting related documents. The professors include Isaac Barrow, John Greaves, Robert Hooke, and Sir Christopher Wren.
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