Spectrum analysis in its applications to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly Bodies. This item is unavailable.Spectrum analysis in its applications to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly Bodies

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. three-quarter lea. iv, (viii)-xviii, 455 pp. Thirteen chromolithographed and lithographed plates, some folding + 5 woodcut portrait plates + very numerous woodcuts in the text mostly of apparatus. Tear to an index leaf with old repair (no losses), joints rubbed; otherwise, a very good, crisp copy. A useful and attractively illustrated work on nineteenth century spectroscopy with considerable emphasis on instrumentation. The first edition was published at Brunswick in 1870; the first English edition, edited and with notes by William Huggins, appeared in 1872, the same year as this American edition. Roller & Goodman II.404.