Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800

First Edition, First Printing. Addresses the central issue of humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period. Fine in original maroon cloth and just about fine pictorial dust jacket, with a very tiny closed tear near the head of the spine. Octavo. 16 x 23.5 cm. 330 pp. A lovely copy.