John Tebbutt Preface (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. 211 (4)pp., plus heavy-boards portfolio with poster. Original tan paper-covered boards with illustrated color plate laid to cover, white spines with gray lettering; in heavy, additional portfolio in same manner with color photo laid to cover; housed in yellow plastic slipcase with clear lettering. Gray endpapers. Illustrated half-title and color frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated in color photography, several foldouts. The additional portfolio contains a folded poster featuring a color photograph of an Indonesian girl with a photographic 'story board' retracing the encounter with this Indonesian girl by Alec Soth. "I have much pleasure in commending this little work on the "Southern Stars" to the general public, and particularly to the readers in the Southern Hemisphere. The whole of my spare time being absorbed in astronomical work of a technical character, I have not had an opportunity for going into a detailed examination of the contents, but I believe we may safely trust the accuracy of the enterprising author. The work is pleasantly photographed, and is calculated to supply a popular need, and more particularly in New Zealand. I trust its publication may create in this hemisphere a taste for Uranography, and thus lead to a wider knowledge of the principle constellations and their lucidae." (Tebutt).…