Language: English
Published by D.Appleton and Company, New York, NY, 1872
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Translated from the Second enlarged and revised German Edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell. Edited , with notes by William Huggins. With numerous woodcuts, colored plates, and portraits; also Angstroms and Kirchhoff's maps. Presumed First American. Preface to the Second Edition.Editor's Preface from December 1871. Green cloth covered boards with gilt device/ black design to front , gilt lettering /design to spine.This copy is VERY GOOD. Exterior is modestly rubbed to boards. More so to spine ends and tips. Gilt bright. Inside has neat PO signature to top front paste down. Tape repair to front hinge and to preface page. Illustrated. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 2 pp. ads to rear. Text is unmarked, firmly bound with modest toning.
Published by Braunschweig, George Westermann, ., 1871
Seller: Antiquariat Lycaste, Dietzenbach, Germany
2. durchaus umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Auflage. XVI + 619 Seiten mit 223 Figuren in Holzschnitt, 2 farbigen Spectraltafeln, 2 farbigen Protuberanztafeln, 4 Tafeln des Sonnenspectrums und der Sonnenfinsternisse und 5 Portraits. Ca. 21,5 cm x ca. 15 cm. Dunkler Farbschnitt. Original Halbledereinband. Berieben und bestoßen. Reste eines Papier-Rückenschildes. Titel mit Stempel und Eintrag, sost keine Einträge. Papier nahezu nicht gebräunt, gering altersfleckig. Bindung sehr gut und fest. Zustand gut. Auf Wunsch senden wir gerne Fotos des Werkes.
Published by Dumont-Schauberg'schen Buchh., Koln, 1879
Seller: M.POLLAK ANTIQUARIAT Est.1899, ABA, ILAB, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Contemp. Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. X+333pp. Some outside wear to spine and corners. Library stamps on title, verso of title and verso of upper plate. Very minimal foxing on irst and last pages. Otherwise a very good copy. SHIPPING WORLDWIDE INCLUDED.
Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1872
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Lake Katrine, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Hardcover in purple decorative boards with embossed gold gilt titles and illustration, some edge wear and age tone to front boards, inner hinges intact with minor weakness and aquamarine end papers without mark, 455 pages of text with 2 pages book advertisement in rear, 223 illustrations and 13 plates of which frontispiece & 4 plates are chromolithgraph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son of Vanity Fair fame with time exposure photography of total solar eclipses of 1868.
Language: German
Published by Köln: Verlag der M. Dumont-Schaubergschen Buchhandlung, 1879
Seller: Altstadt Antiquariat Goslar, Goslar, Germany
First Edition
1. Aufl. 93 Textabbildungen, X/333 S. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Gr.-8°, OHalbledereinband, goldgeprägter Titel auf goldbraunem Lederrückenschild, Einband berieben, Lederrückenschild fast vollständig entfernt, Kapitale bestossen, Titel mit 1 größeren ädigung.Randfehlstelle, aber ohne Text- oder Bildbeschädigung, ansonsten gut.