Theories For Everything

National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. First Edition of the very scarce Deluxe Edition of Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science: From the Invention of Numbers to String Theory. This is not the standard hardcover issue, but the fine grain synthetic leather-bound, lightly padded Deluxe Edition (see scans). Quarto, black fine grain synthetic leather lightly padded boards, gilt imprinting on front cover and spine, All Edges Gilt, gold satin page-marker ribbon, gold endpapers; 407 pp. + copyright page at end. New; pristine and immaculate in every way; removed from original packaging only for scanning and description. The scarcest edition of the luxuriantly illustrated history of science from Langone, Stutz and Gianopoulos. A collector piece, wall-to-wall. LG8.