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Francis Crick – The Astonishing Hypothesis – The Scientific Search For The Soul – First US Edition 1991 – Inscribed by Francis Crick
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A first edition, first printing published by Scribner in 1991. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some wear to the board edges. No inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some light creasing and a couple of nicks to the bottom of the rear panel. A little rubbing to the corners. Inscribed on the title page by the Author – “For Lisa/with love from/Francis”.
Lisa Anne Jardine CBE HonFRS FRHistS was a British historian of the early modern period.
From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary University of London. From 2008 to January 2014 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)Jardine was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, until 2009. On 1 September 2012, she relocated with her research centre and staff to University College London (UCL) to become founding director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.
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A first edition, first printing published by Scribner in 1991. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some wear to the board edges. No inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some light creasing and a couple of nicks to the bottom of the rear panel. A little rubbing to the corners. Inscribed on the title page by the Author – “For Lisa/with love from/Francis”.
Lisa Anne Jardine CBE HonFRS FRHistS was a British historian of the early modern period.
From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary University of London. From 2008 to January 2014 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)Jardine was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, until 2009. On 1 September 2012, she relocated with her research centre and staff to University College London (UCL) to become founding director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.
