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The Smoake of London - Fumifugium. Now reissued as an old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean Museum, which, like ' Fumifugium,' was dedicated to King Charles II, founder of the Royal Society - Fumifugium: Or, The Incovenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed [...] To His Sacred Majestie, and To the Parliament now Assembled.
by Evelyn, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford: Old Ashmolean Reprints 1930. 8vo. [iii], viii, 50 pp. Green cloth in a pictorial jacket. Chipping to jacket extremities. Boards clean, light spotting to fore-edge and prelims but otherwise internally clean. A facsimile of a work originally published in 1661 about the air pollution in London, still considered a milestone in the science. . Very Good. Cloth. 1930.
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- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Smoake of London - Fumifugium. Now reissued as an old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean Museum, which, like ' Fumifugium,' was dedicated to King Charles II, founder of the Royal Society - Fumifugium: Or, The Incovenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed [...] To His Sacred Majestie, and To the Parliament now Assembled.
- Author
- Evelyn, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Old Ashmolean Reprints 1930
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Air pollution
- Bookseller catalogs
- London; Science and Medicine;
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- Facsimile
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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