ASTRONOMY. – J.J. AUBERTIN. By Order of the Sun to Chile to See His

ASTRONOMY. – J.J. AUBERTIN. By Order of the Sun to Chile to See His Total Eclipse April 16, 1893. London: Kegan Paul, Trench et al., 1894. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (192 x 126mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of Professor J.M. Schaeberle, 4 photographic plates. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, pictorial silver and gilt (mark to spine). Provenance: Margaret Lambert (inscribed to from the author on half-title); Francis D. Cooper (mounted card to front pastedown). – And a further twenty-eight volumes related to astronomy (including J.P. Nichol’s ‘Thoughts on Some Important Points Relating to the System of the World’, 1846, 8vo, and Michael Faraday’s ‘On the Various Forces of Nature and Their Relations to Each Other’, [1874], 8vo, and David Brewster’s ‘The Kaleidoscope’, second edition, 1858, 8vo) (29).

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