Translated Annotated Dava Sobel (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good Condition hard cover 375 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover; remainder mark on lower edge; minor shelfwear; o/w in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. The book is like new. The dust jacket has a 4mm closed tear to the top edge of the front cover and minor rubbing wear to the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiv, 377 pages; 24 cm. Ribbon bookmark. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "When she was 13, Virginia Galilei, eldest daughter of the great scientist Galileo, was placed by her father in a convent near him in Florence and took the name Suor Maria Celeste. Unable to see him except on his occasional visits, she wrote him continually, as her 124 surviving letters (which Galileo kept) attest. Now, for the first time, all of these letters are reproduced in English, translated by Dava Sobel, and in their original Italian, and Ms. Sobel has also written an introduction and annotations placing the letters in historical context. The 124 letters span only a decade of Maria Celeste's 33 years. In that dramatic period, a pope came to power who battled the Protestant Reformation; the Thirty Years' War embroiled all of Europe; the bubonic plague erupted across Italy; and a new philosophy of science, promulgated most forcefully by Galileo himself, threatened to overturn the order of the universe. Maria Celeste's evocative, beautifully written letters touch on all of these situations, but they dwell in the small details of everyday life; and though Galileo's letters to her have not survived, it is clear from hers that he answered every one. Especially for those who have read Ms. Sobel's Galileo's Daughter, but even for those who haven't, Maria Celeste's letters provide an indelible chronicle of convent life in the early 17th century, a memorable portrait of deep affection between a famous father and his daughter, and fascinating insight into Galileo himself." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2001 1st ed. 381pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Fine dj [text is age browned with some top edge foxing; last two pp. are nicked @ the fore edge; else a clean, complete & tight copy] 124 surviving letters from Galileo's daughter in a wonderful, annotated edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First published in the United States of America in 2001 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., stated; first printing, full number line. Bound in blue cloth-covered boards with red-foil lettering on the spine; red ribbon bookmark; a three-page press release laid in. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $40.00). Brodart protected.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Dark blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny orange foil lettering on the spine. Book has light bumping at the head of the spine and a fair amount of bumping at the tail. Some light accompanying rubbing at the tail of the spine. Very very light sky blue endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 377 pages. Red silk ribbon bookmark fastened at the head of the spine. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head of the spine. Light rubbing at the tail and at the extreme tips of the two upper outside corners - jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Sobel also the author of her own book on Galileo, Galileo's Daughter, as well as Longitude, The Glass Universe, and a number of others.

Hard Cover with Jacket. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Jacket Condition). First Edition. As new. Excellent copy in fine condition. Text clean and binding solid. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Hard Cover with Jacket. Condition: Fine (Book Condition). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Jacket Condition). First Edition. As new. Excellent copy in fine condition. Text clean and binding solid. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.