Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960
Seller: Maxwell's House of Books, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A lovely, tight, unmarked hardcover in very good condition; heavy foxing to textblock, else near fine. Dust jacket in very good condition with faint stain on front, now in protective mylar cover. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press [1960], Philadelphia, 1960
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [7], viii-xxv, [6], 6-380, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and a gold border on the spine. Translated by Stillman Drake and C.D. O'Malley. With one full-page and a few in-text illustrations, done in black and white. Introduction by Stillman Drake. This volume chronicles a debate on comets in the year 1618, with writings from some of the Scientific Revolution's most renowned physicists. Jacket with light edge wear.