FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. three-quarter lea. iv, (viii)-xviii, 455 pp. Thirteen chromolithographed and lithographed plates, some folding + 5 woodcut portrait plates + very numerous woodcuts in the text mostly of apparatus. Tear to an index leaf with old repair (no losses), joints rubbed; otherwise, a very good, crisp copy. A useful and attractively illustrated work on nineteenth century spectroscopy with considerable emphasis on instrumentation. The first edition was published at Brunswick in 1870; the first English edition, edited and with notes by William Huggins, appeared in 1872, the same year as this American edition. Roller & Goodman II.404.

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Title: Spectrum analysis in its applications to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly Bodies
Publisher: New York: D. Appleton, 1872
Publication Date: 1872
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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