Title:Marconi; Giorgi, Degna Marconi, Pession, Hancock, Biagi -- (the Navigators Series)
Author:Bucciante, Giuseppe -- Editor
Price:AUD$72.00 (about USD$46.20)
Item ID:SB00-0232550
Quantity:1
Publisher:Dedalo Editore; Printed on Behalf of Lloyd Triestin, Rome, 1963
Edition:Limited/Numbered
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
1.3 kg; 434 pp., introduction by editor. Illustrated endpapers, showing a two masted yacht "The Elettra". The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, line drawings and facsimiles of documents, there are also 5 foldouts, 1: showing the ship "N. G. Marconi", 2: showing a photograph of Marconi and his wife aboard the "Elettra", 3: a photograph of early experiments of wireless at La Spezia, 4: Marconi and Pope Pius the XI on the inauguration of Papal Wireless Station, 5: the model of the "Elettra", on show in the route devoted to Marconi in the museum of science and technology in Milan. Pale grey boards with brown facsimile signature on the bottom of the front panel and brown writing on the spine. The spine section of the binding has become Browning with age/exposure to light. Otherwise there's no damage to describe. An anthology on Marconi -- inventor of the wireless and a "navigator" of the march forward of science, printed on behalf of Lloyd Triestino and is number 167/500 in the navigators series. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 0232550.