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THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS AND THE INVENTION OF AVIATION 1783-1784
by Charles Coulston Gillispie
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0691083215
- ISBN 13
- 9780691083216
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9 x 11 in. Pale blue boards with gilt spine titles on black. B&W illus. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight, text unmarked. Previous owners name, Peter L. Oppenheimer, on upper front pastedown. Peter L. Oppenheimer was a philosophy professor and the son of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic physicist. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped, mild edge wear, very clean, two closed tears at lower front. Hist. Stax.
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- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Title
- THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS AND THE INVENTION OF AVIATION 1783-1784
- Author
- Charles Coulston Gillispie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691083215
- ISBN 13
- 9780691083216
- Publisher
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1983
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