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Sale 453: Rare Books & Manuscripts with Science & Medicine (#453) 05/05/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #48 A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy

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Title:

A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy

Author:

Chambers, George

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

John Murray

Date Published:

1861

Description:

xlvi, 514, [2] pp. 116 full-page plates, many with coloring. (8vo) original blue cloth, telescope in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Chambers provides a sketch of the history of astronomy and of the solar system, eclipses and tides, astronomical phenomena, comets, astronomical instruments, meteoric astronomy, etc.

Condition:

Light wear to cloth, front hinge cracked; small square clipped from front free endpaper, lacking front flyleaf, occasional pencil markings; very good.

Item#:

212982

Headline:

A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy
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