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A catalogue for a book exhibition to celebrate the dedication of the Samuel I and Cecile M. Barchas Room in the History of Science at the Cecil Green Library and, with it, the transfer of the Barchas Collection to Stanford University. At the center of the collection are more than one hundred seminal works, including first editions of Galileo's Dialogo, Newton's Principia, and Harmonices mundi, by Kepler. Illustrated. Article about the dedication ceremony from the Stanford University Campus Report loosely inserted. viii , 118, 2 pages. cloth. 8vo..
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- PublisherStanford Univ Libraries
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0911221034
- ISBN 13 9780911221039
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages118
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The Barchas Collection : the making of modern science, an exhibition of books, January 27 through March 6, 1985, Cecil H. Green Library / prepared by Henry E. Lowood
ISBN 10: 0911221034
ISBN 13: 9780911221039
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First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages; 118 p. : illus., facsims., frontis. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Barchas, Samuel I. -- Barchas, Cecile M. -- Library -- Exhibitions. Science -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 219080
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The Barchas Collection : the making of modern science, an exhibition of books, January 27 through March 6, 1985, Cecil H. Green Library / prepared by Henry E. Lowood
ISBN 10: 0911221034
ISBN 13: 9780911221039
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First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages; 118 p. : illus., facsims., frontis. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Barchas, Samuel I. -- Barchas, Cecile M. -- Library -- Exhibitions. Science -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Exhibitions. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 219080
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