THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS by Robert Stawell Ball 1893 FINE SOTHERN CALF BINDING
POB#57884
TITLE: The Story of the Heavens: with eighteen coloured plates and numerous illustrations
AUTHOR: Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913)
PUBLISHER: London; Paris; Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited
DATE: 1893
EDITION: New and Revised Edition
DESCRIPTION: xix, 556 pages : illustrations, 18 plates (some color) diagrams ; 23 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Solid page and cover attachment. Pages free of marks, creases, or tears. Some dryness to joints, but no frank splitting. Light foxing on first blank fly page and half title only. No trouble in the hinges, beyond a bit of a wide gutter behind the added marbled fly page. Full caps. Small gouges to back cover, none exposing board. Corners rubbed.
BINDING: Full polished tan calf by Sotheran & Co. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Dentelles.
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A finely bound example of a state of the art astronomy classic, updated for 1893. Binders possibly removed [18] pages of adverts at back. Full index is present. Remarkable for it's beautifully printed plates, exquisite in this printing. Discussion of Orion Nebula, accompanied by a new detailed engraving, sets the table well for debates on the origins of stars and the relative distance of various nebulae (i.e. spiral vs. amorphous) resolved by Hubble.
