Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840 Tapa dura - 1984

MIT Press, 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good.

MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 138x15x176. Hardcover, full beige cloth binding in dust jacket, 11-1/4" tall, 645 pp. Art history professor's notes to rear endpaper and a very few pages of text, but otherwise a nice copy in a lightly rubbed & worn dust jacket. "Reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment--a time when artist-scientists [were] seeking to discover and record the nonhuman likeness of the phenomenal world. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.

MIT Press, 1984. hardcover. Good. 8x0x11. MIT Press, 1984. Hard cover, first edition. Ex-library copy with the usual markings, otherwise Good condition in VG dust jacket.

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. Quarto; G-/Fair+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with black print; DJ has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, creasing, shelfwear; Boards in grey cloth, light wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has book review in pocket affixed to front pastedown, institution stamp and crease to front flyleaf, underlining and marginal notation in pencil; xxii, 645 pages, illustrated (b&w). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. 1363777. FP New Rockville Stock.

MIT Press, May 1984. Hardcover . Very Good/Good. Very Good Hardcover with Good+ Dustjacket. Light to moderate shelfwear to DJ, including rubbing. Light shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Textblock very lightly soiled. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

Cambridge, MA:: MIT Press, 1984., 1984. 4to. xxii, [4], 645, [1] pp. Plates, figs., index. Original beige black-stamped cloth, dust jacket; jacket heavily rubbed, extremity worn in parts. Very good. ISBN: 0262192233 "Voyage into Substance reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment - a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the Polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts "sailed" through the atmosphere's "waves," all seeking to discover and record the non-human likeness of the phenomenal world. / By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives and atlases of the period, the book relates the voyagers' attentive, firsthand mode of seeing and precise copying of the enduring and the ephemeral features of the environment (before the advent of photography) to the major philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic debates of the time. Arguing that these accounts disclose an… Leer más

Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. G+ (Slight wear to edges and surface of dj; edges of book block have faint foxing.). Tan cloth, tan & color illus. dust jacket, 645 pp., 270 BW illus.; weighs 5.5 lbs. "Reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment -- a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts 'sailed' through the atmosphere's 'waves.' all seeking to discover and record the nonhuman likeness of the phenomenal world. ... The book opens new doors to establish the persistence of a 'plain' (that is, nonanthropomorphizing) style of landscape depiction that culminated in nineteenth-century realism." (dj).

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1984. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket. heavy book., only slight signs of use, time to exterior, minor wear to dj at top and bottom edges of spine. no writing or markings. no bumps, tears, chips. strong binding, hinges.; xxiii-645pp., 270 b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

MIT Press, 1984-05-09. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

USA: MIT Press, 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 645 pages. Index. Bibliography. Extensive footnotes. 270 black and white illustrations (with list). "Examines the landscape elements that were featured in European illustrated travel accounts published between 1760 and 1840 - from their heyday to the advent of photography... Differs substantially from those previously published on the topic of the imaginary voyage or the travel lie." - from Preface. Moderate external wear and soiling to beige cloth-covered boards. Rubbing to lettering upon backstrip. Binding intact. Few light pencil marks in footnote section. A quality working copy..