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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCIENCE: A SOURCE BOOK, VOLUME ONE: KNOWLEDGE AND ORDER [Volume One, Tome Two Only]
by Clagett, Marshall
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0871691841
- ISBN 13
- 9780871691842
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1989. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 407-863 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine tan with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket protected in a mylar covering. Minor rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket with light tearing to bottom edge on rear cover. Age toning and foxing to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing to edges of textblock. Light age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Egyptology. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378930. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1378930
- Title
- ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCIENCE: A SOURCE BOOK, VOLUME ONE: KNOWLEDGE AND ORDER [Volume One, Tome Two Only]
- Author
- Clagett, Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0871691841
- ISBN 13
- 9780871691842
- Publisher
- The American Philosophical Society
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1989
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