Robert James Mann M R C S E (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Second edition. xvii, 361, [1] adverts. With the vignette of Lunar Mountains and Plains to the title page, and many illustrations in the text. The frontis plate of Lunar Shadows is supplied by a copy (thanks, Sally!), and the front free endpaper is a matching replacement. Much enlarged from the 1852 first edition, published only 6 months earlier. The title page is soiled, and the front pastedown bears an early ownership name: the rear free endpaper appears to have been stuck down. The text is generally clean, with a small brown mark to the top edges in the latter half of the book, and some soiling or tanning to pp250-266. c.14.5 x 9.5cms, in the original binding of brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, with a new matching cloth spine titled in gilt. Mann later became president of the Royal Meteorological Society, and was a noted scientific populariser. After the introductory chapter written for this edition, the text takes the form, often adopted for 'educational' books at the time, of short questions and pithy answers, but here interspersed with detailed explanations in smaller print for the grown-ups. At the back are notes, and an index. A very nice copy.