Author: ALDER, KEN
Title: The Measure of All Things. The Seven-Year Odyssey that Transformed the World
Description: London, Little Brown. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316859893). Cloth, 8vo. Hardback, 140mm x 225mm tall (5.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xiv, 466, with 2 frontispiece plates, some further illustrations and a map. Very good, in the original blue cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title, and with the very good, unclipped, illustrated dust-wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.

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