Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840
by Stafford, Barbara Maria
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0262192233
- ISBN 13
- 9780262192231
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 138x15x176. Hardcover, full beige cloth binding in dust jacket, 11-1/4" tall, 645 pp. Art history professor's notes to rear endpaper and a very few pages of text, but otherwise a nice copy in a lightly rubbed & worn dust jacket. "Reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment--a time when artist-scientists [were] seeking to discover and record the nonhuman likeness of the phenomenal world. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002115
- Title
- Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840
- Author
- Stafford, Barbara Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0262192233
- ISBN 13
- 9780262192231
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 138x15x176
- Keywords
- art painting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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