Author: Cottler, Joseph.
Title: Man with Wings: The Story of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Description: London George G. Harrap, 1946. Reprint ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white drawings, faint foxing edges, boards lightly marked, corners bumped, small edge pieces missing jacket (edge tears, flap price-clipped, small ink stain bottom edge), tiny ink mark front flyleaf, sticker, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 174 pp. This biography is mainly about the inventor rather than the painter. Leonardo da Vinci was more interested in inventing than painting. This book will interest younger readers as well as adults because it gives a simple and direct picture of a man whose laboratory was the world around him.

Keywords: biography, technology, inventors, engineers, architects, art, artists, europe, italy, collectible, collectable


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