Price: £1,200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1875-81
Stock Number: 51773
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: 5 vols., slightly browned in places, a little foxing towards the ends of most vols., pp. [iv], III, 464; [iv], 416; [iv], 476; [iv], 501; [iv], 398, 8vo, uniform blue hard-grained cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct at the head of the spines and with a gilt fleuron at the centre, head of spine of vol. i with a small snag, bookplate in each vol. of Stephanos Carathéodory, very good
Publication Details: Paris: Didier et Cie., 1875-81
Notes: Stephanos Carathéodory, an Ottoman Greek diplomat, was the father of the mathematician Constantin. De Lesseps himself had a diplomatic career before embarking on the canal business.
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