Reports Observations Total Eclipse Sun by Schaeberle (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards show only a touch of shelfwear plus a bit of wear to spine head; gilt spine text is clear. Binding tight; pages clean; inside cover shows p/o signature dated 1892 and, below, a different owner's bookplate. The book's first half features a series of reports by astronomers and others, about the December 1889 solar eclipse and the July 1888 total lunar eclipse. Three silver prints of the solar eclipse from unretouched negatives plus sketches and diagrams. The book's second half consists of "a catalogue of the library published by the Lick Observatory." A startlingly uncommon title. 242 pages total + plates. U.S. buyers, contact me for a possible discount!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A.J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento, 1891, 121 pages + 121 pages. Includes A Catalogue of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California prepared by Edward S. Holden which accounts for the second 121 pages. Illustrated with 3 mounted original silver print photographs, 5 collotype plates and 2 woodcut plates along with a couple of additional in-text illustrations. Original black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition: Very Good-, First Edition. Wear to top and bottom of spine, bottom edges and all four corners. One corner severely bumped. One eight inch spot on title page. Tight and clean copy. I will be adding new books to my Antiquarian list weekly.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December, 1889), 10 further plates (including 2 additional mounted original silver prints), and illustrations and charts in the text. Bound with Catalog of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. Part I - To July 1, 1890. Prepared by Edward S. Holden (separate title page and pagination). Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind. Stamp of Imperial College Physics Library to title page. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Margolis & Moss. In 1888, Schaeberle became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory. He led expeditions to witness the solar eclipses at Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1889; to Chile, in 1893, and to Japan, in 1896, having designed the "Schaeberle Camera" to photograph the sun and its corona during the eclipses. The earliest scientifically useful photographs of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851 and by Warren De La Rue, on July 18, 1860. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).