SMITHSONIAN SCIENTIFIC SERIES - THE SUN AND THE WELFARE OF MAN
by Abbot, Charles Greeley
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- Hardcover
- first
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Smithsonian Institution Series, 1934. Volume 2 of the Smithsonian Scientific Series. 322 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with nice color plate. Many unopened pages. Illustrated with 81 plates and 52 text figures. Pages v/g condition. Red cloth with gilt and green decoration on upper cover and gilt title on spine. Comes in green slip case that is worn at edges. Book is NF, Case GOOD. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036863
- Title
- SMITHSONIAN SCIENTIFIC SERIES - THE SUN AND THE WELFARE OF MAN
- Author
- Abbot, Charles Greeley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Series
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Sun, Health, Vitamin D
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Gilt
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- Unopened
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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