What Are Cosmic Rays

Pierre Auger. Translated from the French by Maurice M. Shapiro.

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, United States of America., 1945

About this Item

First Edition, Third Impression, 1945. Hardback. Green cloth. 128 pages. 22 photographic plates to rear. 19.5 x 14 cm. Weighs 249 grams.

Ex Libris of F.W. Pinkard inside front board. Ex Libris shows an 'alchemical laboratory' taken from Elias Ashmole's 'Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum', published London, 1652. Pinkard was a published chemist and Seniour Lecturer in Chemistry at Birmingham University.

Some discolouration and light wear to binding including some fading loss to lettering on spine. Corner crease to first 3 pages. Otherwise clean and complete.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Are Cosmic Rays
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, United States of America.
• Publication Date: 1945
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 14W x 19.5H x 0D millimeters 14 millimeters width by 19.5 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 249 grams