Nourse Professor (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 14pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 14 characteristic Harper's engraving, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIX, No. 292, September, 1874. Includes the observatories at Cambridge, Dartmouth College, Dudley, Litchfield, Michigan University, Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and the Academic Department of Yale College. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 14pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 14 characteristic Harper's engraving, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIX, No. 290, July, 1874. Includes the observatories at Cambridge, Dartmouth College, Dudley, Litchfield, Michigan University, Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and the Academic Department of Yale College. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG for Age. 1st Ed, 'Prepared at the U.S.Naval Observatory by order of Rear Admiral B.F. Sands U.S.N Superintendent U.S.Naval Observatory'. f/piece (phot of 'The Great Telescope Made by Alvan Clark & Sons A.D.1873' (this is printed using the new Albertype process)+52 (this inc. all leaves), marbled endpapers; the main internal fault is a 2 cm wide strip of paper along the t.p.gutter which continues on previous gutter along recto f/piece, this has some brown marks, also affecting top inner corner of f/piece and a few other flecks (though not the image), this all seems to be about securing the f/piece - whether after original textblock had been bound or to rectify a disbinding is unclear, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are half black leather with dark boards, generally clean but much rubbed, especially leather corners and spine ends, with a small 75mm hole in spine affecting gilt lettering, a small gilt telescope image top front beside spine. Apparently extremely scarce.