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Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1975. Quarto, xx, 1034 pages with numerous illustrations. Gilt-decorated cloth lightly bumped on one corner, with the spine a little creased; top and bottom edges slightly shelf-marked; ownership signature on front free endpaper; an excellent copy (without a dustwrapper, as issued). A substantial contribution to the life and work of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), with chapters on astronomy, mathematics, religion, celestial mechanics, optics and numerous other topics.

Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1975. Quarto, xx, 1034 pages with numerous illustrations. Gilt-decorated cloth lightly bumped on one corner, with the spine a little creased; top and bottom edges slightly shelf-marked; ownership signature on front free endpaper; an excellent copy (without a dustwrapper, as issued). A substantial contribution to the life and work of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), with chapters on astronomy, mathematics, religion, celestial mechanics, optics and numerous other topics.

1034 pp. Hardcover, bound in cloth. The corners rubbed, cloth creased along spine; text unmarked.

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Bumping at corners and at spine extremities. Just a bit shaken. Pages clean but for library markings. ; SCH11C; 10 x 7"; 1034 pages; Ex-Library

First Edition. [xx], 1,034 pp; illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Upper corners of covers slightly bumped, else Very Good. Vistas in Astronomy, Volume 18. A scarce and monumental work, whose contributors include Gingerich, I. B. Cohen, Stillman Drake, Eric J. Aiton, Costabel, Robert Westman, Volker Bialas, C. Doris Hellman, Edward Rosen, Dobrzycki, Curtis Wilson, Whiteside, Thoren, Buchdahl, S. Bochner, J. E. Hoffman, Neugebauer, J. A. Lohne, Ronchi, Koestler, et al. Apparently the copy of Kepler historian Walther Gerlach -- another contributor here -- though without any ownership marking. Laid in are letters, etc., from Beer to Gerlach. Gerlach's contribution is "Johannes Kepler -- Life, Man and Work," pp. 73-95.

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Bumping at corners and at spine extremities. Just a bit shaken. Pages clean but for library markings.; SCH11C; 10 x 7"; 1034 pages; Ex-Library.