Item #25970 TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT:. C. Piazzi Smyth, Charles.
TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT:
TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT:
TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT:

TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT: OR, SPECIALITIES OF A RESIDENCE ABOVE THE CLOUDS.

London: Lovell Reeve, 1858. First edition. 8vo., 451 pp., 20 mounted albumen stereographs with tissue guards, engraved map, approx. 45 pp. advertisements, including the catalogue of one hundred stereoscopic views of Egypt and Nubia, published by Negretti & Zambra. Gilt-decorated textured cloth, t.e.g.; spine crown repaired with tissue; light wear, foxing to several tissue guards; blank corner of one advert lacking. A very good copy. Item #25970

This is the first book to contain original mounted stereographs; the exposures were made by Smyth on Teneriffe in the mid 1850s, and serves as an important astronomical report. The publisher's adverts are dated January 1858.

TRUTHFUL LENS No.152. Gernsheim - INCUNABULA No. 79. Roosens and Salu No. 9814.

Price: $1,150.00