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Teneriffe, An Astronomer’s Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds

Name: Teneriffe, An Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds
SKU: 0036436

C. Piazzi Smyth

London: Lovell Reeve, 1858.
First Edition.

19cm x 13cm. xvi, 452, 24, 16, [2], [1] pages, 20 stereoscopic photographs, 1 map. Rebacked original brown cloth.

Account of the voyage of British astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) to the island of Tenerife to undertake astronomical observations. The first book to be illustrated with original mounted stereographs. Includes Negretti & Zambra’s Descriptive Catalogue of One Hundred Stereoscopic Views of the Pyramids, the Nile, Karnak, Thebes, Aboo-Simbel, and all the most interesting objects of Egypt and Nubia.

Ex-Queensland Museum, stamps rebacked preserving the original boards, the original spine with some loss. Some foxing. Good Condition (ex-library).

AU$600.00

1 in stock

SKU: 0036436 Categories: Africa, Astronomy & Space, Canary Islands, Countries, Photographs, Travel & Places