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FEYNMAN, RICHARD Phillips. 1918-1988. The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley for California Institute of Technology, 1975-76.
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FEYNMAN, RICHARD Phillips. 1918-1988.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley for California Institute of Technology, 1975-76.
3 volumes, 4to. Original red printed wrappers, custom red cloth clamshell box. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in top margin of Feynman's preface, next to a portrait of him playing a conga drum, "May 5, 1982, To my friend, Al Seckel." Some light wear, especially to the lower outside corners, staining to wrappers.
A rare inscribed copy of The Lectures, to Feynman's friend, Al Seckel (see following lot). Feynman presented these lectures at Caltech between 1961 and 1963, first published in 1963-65. The work is co-authored by Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands, both formidable physicists in their own right, and is probably the most popular work on physics ever written, with millions of copies sold in multiple languages. Inscribed copies of Feynman's scientific works are especially rare, and this is only one of a handful of inscribed copies of Lectures known to exist.
3 volumes, 4to. Original red printed wrappers, custom red cloth clamshell box. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in top margin of Feynman's preface, next to a portrait of him playing a conga drum, "May 5, 1982, To my friend, Al Seckel." Some light wear, especially to the lower outside corners, staining to wrappers.
A rare inscribed copy of The Lectures, to Feynman's friend, Al Seckel (see following lot). Feynman presented these lectures at Caltech between 1961 and 1963, first published in 1963-65. The work is co-authored by Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands, both formidable physicists in their own right, and is probably the most popular work on physics ever written, with millions of copies sold in multiple languages. Inscribed copies of Feynman's scientific works are especially rare, and this is only one of a handful of inscribed copies of Lectures known to exist.



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