Elements of Descriptive Astronomy, A Text-Book by Herbert A Howe - 1897

London: George Philip and Son Ltd, 1897. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 781 8vo. First publication in Great Britain. Intended "for the use of students who have a fair knowledge of elementary algebra and plane geometry". Ex-school library copy. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to front board and spine, coloured frontispiece ('Spectra of Different Types') and three other colour plates: Solar Prominences (two) and Lunar Eclipse January 28 1888. Many other illustrations, 340 pages, five fold-out star maps bound in at end. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, remnants of library labels to front end papers, foxing to end papers and blank pages before title page, hinge strained across front end papers, some dust soiling to external page edges. Pages clean, bright and unmarked.