The Baroque Cycle 3-Volume Hardcover Set: Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World

Complete in three hardcover volumes. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. "The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by American writer Neal Stephenson. It was published in three volumes containing 8 books in 2003 and 2004.The story follows the adventures of a sizeable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe. Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, due to the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology. The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series." - Wikipedia