Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1981-12-24
ISBN-13:9780674794382ISBN:0674794389
Description: Very Good. Dust jacket with tape-repaired tear at back bottom edge near spine and sun-fading along top edge. Inside pages clean without inscriptions or markings of any kind. Spine is sound. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambirdge, MA
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780674794382ISBN:0674794389
Description: Fine/Very Good. 0674794389 131pgs. Red Cloth, gilt lettering on spine. illustrated throughout. unmarked, clean copy. Unmarked jacket has closed tears along upper extremities. in fresh mylar sleeve. Author examines the Taoist Alchemy that led to the invention of gunpowder and through macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry. read more
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