Scientific Trade Cards in the Science Museum Collection.

8vo. 55, [3] pp. Frontispiece, 61 illustrations. Olive-green and black printed wrappers; rubbed, some fading. Very good. A well-illustrated brief history of British trade cards relating to scientific advertising, especially of products and instruments included. / Henry Calvert was one of the earliest to join the British Society for the History of Science, having become a member within eight weeks of the Society's foundation in May 1947. He worked as a museum curator. See: John A. Chaldecott, Henry Reginald Calvert (1904 92), The British Journal for the History of Science, 1993, v. 26, pp. 347-9. [obituary].

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Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1971.

Year: 1971

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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