Land of Nicholas Copernicus
by Rusinek, Michal
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (+)/Very Good (+)
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Twayne Publishers Inc, 1973. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs. . Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+). Illus. by Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka (photographs). 10.75 x 8.75 inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006657
- Title
- Land of Nicholas Copernicus
- Author
- Rusinek, Michal
- Illustrator
- Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka (photographs)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (+)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (+)
- Publisher
- Twayne Publishers Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Poland, Astronomy, History, Fifteenth Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - Engineering / Science;
- Size
- 10.75 x 8.75 inches
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