Gerard van Swieten and His World 1700-1772
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #4438
ISBN: 9024750091
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Crisp copy.; Biographical study of Leiden-born Dutch doctor who became chief physician at the Court of Vienna, director of the Imperial Library, head of both the Vienna Medical Faculty and the Censorship Commission, and trusted councillor to Empress Maria Theresa. "He was the outsider who could provide what seemed to be scarce in the Imperial City: science and scholarship. He would, in sum, cautiously yet insistently introduce the western Enlightenment into this central European realm."; International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; Ex-Library; Vol. 36; 179 pages.
Price: $39.95