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Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
by Atkins, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0198606648
- ISBN 13
- 9780198606642
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover, royal octavo in black cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 380 pages. Further Reading, Index. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, unread and like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017654
- Title
- Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
- Author
- Atkins, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198606648
- ISBN 13
- 9780198606642
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Intellectual History, Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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