ISBN: 9780752859965 - the voynich manuscript: the unsolved riddle of an extraordinary book which has defied interpretation for centuries (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Illustrated with colour plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; "In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian book dealer, stumbled upon a strange volume, its vellum pages covered in a beautiful but unrecognisable script accompanied by equally mystifying pictures. The codex has remained undeciphered from that day to this. Voynich believed the codex to be the work of medieval philosopher Roger Bacon, others that of the Elizabethan mathematician and occultist John Dee. Whoever created the book which now resides at Yale University, it remains to this day a singular enigma which continues to defy the best efforts of linguists, cryptologists, and scholars. With the benefit of the authors' exhaustive research, readers can hazard their own guesses as to the meaning and provenance of this most beguiling of mysteries.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book has a single page that was untrimmed by the binder--visible in photo. Jacket has light abrasion along jacket fold edges, and a 1/8 inch spot of abrasion on bottom of spine--visible in photos. All else is fine.

hardcover. Zustand: new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp: 276. The story of the efforts to solve the riddle of the Voynich Manuscript. This is a near fine copy of the first edition in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: New.

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