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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Modern Library #156.2)
by Da VINCI, Leonardo; LINSCOTT, Robert N. (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. [c.1959]. Hardcover. A selection of writings from the voluminous notebooks (5,000 manuscript pages in total) of the great Leonardo Da Vinci. These writings have been translated by Edward McCurdy in this Modern Library reprint edition. Edited, abridged and with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. Volume wrapped in white jacket with image of Leonardo in red and white to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / dark blue cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 385 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1957 date appears in book). ML #156.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with some spotting to topstain. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.65) with spots of soiling (especially to spine), else bright, intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xviii, 455, [6, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88225
- Title
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Modern Library #156.2)
- Author
- Da VINCI, Leonardo; LINSCOTT, Robert N. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1959]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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