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Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures
by Aveni, Anthony F
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+ /VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1860646026
- ISBN 13
- 9781860646027
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Taurus Parke Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Photo-illustrated stiff card covers, no bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. Very slight distortion to fore edges. VG+* Illustrations: B/w illustrations within text throughout, photographs, line drawings, maps and facsimiles.* Pages: 340 pp. text. xxxiv pp. epilogue. notes, index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Humanity has always felt a powerful need to impose scale and order on that most elusive and transient of elements: time. But what ends do our clocks and calendars really serve? You are as likely to discover an answer to this question in this detailed and readable book as you are anywhere else.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st thus with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG+*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4930
- Title
- Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures
- Author
- Aveni, Anthony F
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ /VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1860646026
- ISBN 13
- 9781860646027
- Publisher
- Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- London UK 384
- Date Published
- 2000-04-18
- Size
- 12.6 x 19.6 cm
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About Cocksparrow Books
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