THE RENAISSANCE MAKER OF MODERN MAN by Grosvenor, Melville Bell ; Frederick G. Vosburgh ; Franc Shor (Eds.) - 1970

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Dustjacket very good. Various size closed tears, 1.5" and smaller, and creases to top jacket edge. Mild shelfwear to surfaces. Gilt lettering debossed to black spine, gilt design debossed to front of brick-red, leatherette boards. Glossy paper. With 450 illustrations, 423 in full color, 10 maps. Clean, bright, tight. 402 pp with illustrated index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. A volume in the Story of Man Library. Within these pages are the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Shakespeare. Renaissance men. More than 100,000 words of fact-filled text re-create this important time in history.