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The Sun's Place in Nature
by Lockyer, Sir Norman
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1897. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. vii, 360pp. Octavo. Bound in original brown cloth with gold gilt lettering to spine. Colored endpapers. Illustrated throughout with 82 black-and-white figures. Period bookplate to front pastedown. Minor rubbing to extremities, bumping to head and base of spine; overall a tight and attractive copy. very good This volume grew out of Lockyer's notes for his "Lectures to Working Men" at the Royal School of Mines. Lockyer co-discovered helium and is considered one of the founders of astrophysics and the father of archeoastronomy, the attempt to interpret ancient civilizations via their understanding of solar alignments and seasonal rhythms. 1897
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140781
- Title
- The Sun's Place in Nature
- Author
- Lockyer, Sir Norman
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Astronomy|Science|Astrophysics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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