ID 370034
Lot 45 | Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982
Valeur estimée
£ 500 – 800
Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982. The papers are by 29 different authors (one by Hawking), discussing the nature of the beginning of the universe, with a particular emphasis on the concept of an inflationary universe.
Octavo (228 x 150mm). Publisher's black cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Stephen Hawking (ownership inscription in another hand on front free endpaper) – Royal Institution (manuscript note from the RI Librarian loosely inserted thanking Hawking for the loan of the book).
[Sold with:] F.G. Friedlander. The Wave Equation on a Curved Space-time. Cambridge: University Press, 1975. Octavo, original cloth and dustjacket. Provenance: authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper, to: – Stephen Hawking. [And:] S.K. Bose. An Introduction to General Relativity. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1980. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers (faint top corner crease to rear wrapper, extending into text block).
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