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SIR JONAS MOORE Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science
by WILLMOTH, Frances
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0851153216
- ISBN 13
- 9780851153216
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Dark maroon cloth with gilt sp. lettering, pristine. Endpapers illustrated with 2 early maps of the Fens before and after drainage + f/piece portrait +xi + 244, 15 further full p. ills inc. in pagination; easily erasable pencil sig. of Derek Gibson above date 18.10.97 verso fr. end-paper, this being Derek Gair Gibson 1935-2021 eminent British pioneering cardiologist, so probably best retained, otherwise pristine. Unclipped illustrated jacket clean and unworn but fading to spine and strip across top back. SirJonas Moore (1617-79) was a mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, member of the Royal Society and courtier. 16 cm x 24 cm
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013015
- Title
- SIR JONAS MOORE Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science
- Author
- WILLMOTH, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0851153216
- ISBN 13
- 9780851153216
- Publisher
- The Boydell Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- history of science history of mathematics cartography surveying 17th century history Restoration
- X weight
- 0 kg
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