Science and Civilisation in China. Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 (Parts I, II, and III), 5 (Part II), and 6 (Part II)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1959 to 1984 (six first editions, one second impression, and one third impression).
Small quarto, with numerous illustrations plus plates throughout.
Quarter cloth and contrasting pictorial cloth; a near-fine set with the excellent dustwrappers (mild signs of age and use, including light sunning, some price-clipped flaps, occasional short tears or small chips, with some long tears - now stabilised - to the one on Volume 3).
Joseph Needham and Wang Ling are the joint-authors unless otherwise noted. Volume 1: Introductory Orientations (1965, third impression/ 1954). Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought (1962/ second impression/ 1956). Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth (1959, first edition). Volume 4, Part I: Physics and Physical Technology ('with the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson'; 1962, first edition). Volume 4, Part II: Physics and Physical Technology. Mechanical Engineering (1965, first edition). Volume 4, Part III: Physics and Physical Technology. Civil Engineering and Nautics (with Lu Gwei-Djen; 1971, first edition). Volume 5, Part II: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention. Magisteries of Gold and Immortality (by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen; 1974, first edition). Volume 6, Part II: Biology and Biological Technology (by Francesca Bray; 1984, first edition). [8 items].
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