The Romance Of Scientific Discovery: A Popular and Non-technical Account of Some of the Most Important Discoveries in Science From the Earliest Historical Times to the Present Day.

New and Revised Edition. 8vo., dark blue pictorial clothbound hardback, in dust jacket with pictorial spine and b/w plate laid on to front cover; 318pp, indexed + 2pp publisher's list, with b/w frontis + 15 other b/w illustrations and 6 diagrams. Previous owner's modern bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to edges, endpapers plus some occasionally throughout, dust jacket a little sunned and edgeworn with neat internal tape repairs, front cover plate a little rubbed, price-clipped. A Good copy in clean and bright boards, with a Good dust jacket.