Hardcover in purple decorative boards with embossed gold gilt titles and illustration, some edge wear and age tone to front boards, inner hinges intact with minor weakness and aquamarine end papers without mark, 455 pages of text with 2 pages book advertisement in rear, 223 illustrations and 13 plates of which frontispiece & 4 plates are chromolithgraph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son of Vanity Fair fame with time exposure photography of total solar eclipses of 1868.

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Title: Spectrum Analysis in its application to Terrestrail Substances, and the Physical Constitution of Heavenly Bodies (1872 publication)
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York
Publication Date: 1872
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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