Drabkin Translated (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Selections on physical science, illustrative of the transition from medieval to modern scientific thought. Number 13 in the publisher's Publications in Medieval Science series. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear, corner bumped; price-clipped jacket shows minor scuffs, insect nibbling on spine. Text clean; xii, 428 pages + 2-page list of publications in the series; index, bibliography, figures. Size: Octavo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped (£2.60), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age, publisher's compliment slip tipped in so this may be a review copy. 210pp. Efraim Sevela (1928-2010), was a Russian writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, USA and Russia and fought in the Yom Kippur War where he was wounded. This book centres around one of the great tragedies of our time, the murder of millions of European Jews during WWII. The author heads back to a tiny barber shop after the war and finds the few remaining Jews in Vilnius reunited to tell their stories. He takes tales of woe and makes you laugh through the tears and disbelief. Jacket by Timothy Jacques (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii + 428 + (2, series list), numerous marginal, and occasional text, figs; internally pristine bar two tiny brown flecks to lower half-title. would have rated As New otherwise.Jacket fault free but price clipped to top front wraparound, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 16 cm x 24 cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. XII, 428, [2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Physical science in the 16th century marked the transition from medieval to modern scientific thought; thus its study is crucial to an understanding of intellectual history. This remarkable anthology of treatises on mechanics illuminates some important conceptual developments during that period. Wrappers, binding and interior in overall very good condition.…