Reports Observations Total Eclipse Sun by Schaeberle (2 results)
More imagesPublished by A.J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento 1891
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A.J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento, 1891, 121 pages + 121 pages. Includes A Catalogue of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California prepared by Edward S. Holden which accounts for the second 121 pages. Illustrated with 3 mounted original silver p…rint photographs, 5 collotype plates and 2 woodcut plates along with a couple of additional in-text illustrations. Original black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition: Very Good-, First Edition. Wear to top and bottom of spine, bottom edges and all four corners. One corner severely bumped. One eight inch spot on title page. Tight and clean copy. I will be adding new books to my Antiquarian list weekly.
More images[Photobook] [Eclipse] Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, December 21-22, 1889, and of the Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22, 1888, to which is added A Catalogue of the Library (Contributions from the Lick Observatory No. 2)
SCHAEBERLE, J. M. (John Martin, 1853-1924); S. W. Burnham; Edward Singleton Holden
Published by State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento 1891
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December, 1889), 10 further plates (including 2 addit…ional mounted original silver prints), and illustrations and charts in the text. Bound with Catalog of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. Part I - To July 1, 1890. Prepared by Edward S. Holden (separate title page and pagination). Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind. Stamp of Imperial College Physics Library to title page. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Margolis & Moss. In 1888, Schaeberle became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory. He led expeditions to witness the solar eclipses at Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1889; to Chile, in 1893, and to Japan, in 1896, having designed the "Schaeberle Camera" to photograph the sun and its corona during the eclipses. The earliest scientifically useful photographs of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851 and by Warren De La Rue, on July 18, 1860. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
