Nicolaus Coppernicus aus Thorn Über die Kreisbewegungen der Weltkörper.
by Copernicus, Nicolaus; Dr. C. L. Menzzer; Dr. Moritz Cantor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Thorn: Ernst Lambeck, 1879. German translation of Copernicus' "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres", with commentary. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Worn, torn, frayed; pages tanned, ink name on free endsheet (W. D. Stahlman, University of Wisconsin historian of science and scholar of Copernicus' work), minor pencil underlining & marginalia. XVI, 363, blank, 66 pages; tables, figures.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s0208os
- Title
- Nicolaus Coppernicus aus Thorn Über die Kreisbewegungen der Weltkörper.
- Author
- Copernicus, Nicolaus; Dr. C. L. Menzzer; Dr. Moritz Cantor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Ernst Lambeck
- Place of Publication
- Thorn
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- History of Science, Astronomy, Heliocentrism, Planetary Motion, Cosmology, Copernicus
- Size
- Large Octavo
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marginalia
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...