The Moon And The Condition And Configurations Of It's Surface. Illustrated By Maps And Plates
by Nevill, Edmund Neville (edmund Neison) (1849-1940)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London:: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Cloth. Line ; Thick 8vo; 8o (226 x 160mm). Half-title, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 4 tinted lithographed plates, 24 (of 26) maps. (Light spotting, lacking: Key Map, Map I, a few short marginal tears. ) Publisher's marron cloth, stamped in black, smooth spine gilt-lettered (stitching weak, spine faded, extremities a little worn) ; glassine. Provenance: Edward H. McLachlin (signature, 10 May 1894). FIRST EDITION of Neisen's work, a translation and expansion of Johann Heinrich von Mädlers work. Neison was frequently published in the Selenographical Journal and co-founded the Selenographical Society with amateur astronomer William Radcliffe Birt. The present work is still prized by Selenographers and spurred interest in selenography, the study of the topography of the Moon. Cloth bound volume, a little pushing at top and heel of spine. Otherwise near Fine. Small bit of tissue pulled from the front tissue guard. .
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- Title
- The Moon And The Condition And Configurations Of It's Surface. Illustrated By Maps And Plates
- Author
- Nevill, Edmund Neville (“edmund Neison”) (1849-1940)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1876
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