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A Rum Affair: How Botany's 'Piltdown Man' was Unmasked
by Sabbagh, Karl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0713992778
- ISBN 13
- 9780713992779
- Seller
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Rippleside, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Allen Lane, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title to spine, 224 pages including black and white photographic plates, appendix, notes, index. Sabbah uses the episode of fake reports of rare plants on the the Hebridian Isle of Rum in the 1940's as a starting point for a more general exploration of scientific fraud. A lovely copy - fine in all respects.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sad Paradise Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1707474
- Title
- A Rum Affair: How Botany's 'Piltdown Man' was Unmasked
- Author
- Sabbagh, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0713992778
- ISBN 13
- 9780713992779
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BOTANISTS FRAUD IN SCIENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Man & Society;
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Sad Paradise Books
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Rippleside, Victoria
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