Celestial Objects For Common Telescopes Volume 1

The first edition of Webb's "Celestial Objects" was published in 1859 with this new impression being a reprint of the greatly enlarged and revised fifth edition of 1893 by T E Espin. Webb had died in 1885. The intent of the book (this being vol 1 only of two volumes) was to encourage the owners of "ordinary telecopes" to examine more closely the celestial bodies most suited for this purpose. 235 pages including two appendices, fold out map of the Moon (this has a tear at the gutter end confined to the margin; map paper very delicate requiring cautions handling, tissue protected full page Mars chart with chart key on facing page, tissue protected frontis photo of Webb has watermark on verso, less apparant to frontis with little intrusion to portrait, foxing to this page mainly confined to portrait margins, small sketches, diagrams, tables etc intext. Dark red hard covers VG with few tiny marks both boards, light wear spine hinges and extremities, gilt spine titles and rules, small vertical mark centre spine, black e/papers, light browning to half title, foxing to frontis verso, text block otherwise excellent and tight in the covers, no inscriptions.…