The Experimenters: A Study of the Accademia del Cimento
by Middleton, W.E. Knowles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 080181250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780801812507
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. History of this seventeenth century Florence scientific society, a project of Leopoldo de Medici; brought to the author's attention while he was researching his books on barometers and thermometers. Hardcover, full brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration; green end sheets. Light wear, minor shelfwear, small scratches to front cover. Text clean; xv, blank, 415 pages with appendices, bibliography and index; figures, mostly from period books. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 6¼" by 9¼".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 997647
- Title
- The Experimenters: A Study of the Accademia del Cimento
- Author
- Middleton, W.E. Knowles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 080181250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780801812507
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- History of Science, Italy, Florence
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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