Lot 201
Astronomy - Brewster, David
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
Ferguson's lectures on the select subjects. Edinburgh, 1806. Second edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, 50 engraved plates, contemporary half calf gilt, worn, ex-library stamps of the Astronomical Society; Roscoe, Sir Henry E. Spectrum analysis. London, 1885. 8vo, double page frontispiece, two folding plates, original decorative cloth gilt, ex-library copy; Walker, Edward Terrestrial and cosmical magnetism. Cambridge, 1866. 8vo, 10 folding plates, original cloth gilt, rubbed, head of backstrip chipped; Proctor, Richard Half-hours with the telescope. London, [no date]. 8vo, folding frontispiece, plates, original cloth gilt, foxing, ex-library; Ball, Sir Robert In the high heavens. London, 1907. Cheap edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Ellery, Robert Results of astronomical observations made at the Melbourne Observatory... Melbourne, 1884. 8vo, original cloth, ex-library; Herschel, Sir John Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews... London, 1857. 8vo, original cloth gilt, worn, ex-library; and 46 others on astronomy (55)
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow.