PRESENTATION COPY
[Drop-head title:] On the progress and prospects of science in scotland at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth centuries, as compared with the same at cambridge a century later...
[Edinburgh].
[s.n.], [1856].
42pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To the Lord Napier / from his affectionate cousin / the Author'.
An address delivered before the Historical Archaeological Institute in Edinburgh demonstrating the 'remarkable coincidences between the genius, the studies, and the discoveries of Napier of Merchiston, and Sir Isaac Newton'. The present copy was inscribed by the author to Francis Napier, tenth Lord Napier of Merchistoun and first Baron Ettrick (1819-1898), diplomatist and administrator in India.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 23492
