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8vo., 451 pp., 20 mounted albumen stereographs with tissue guards, engraved map, approx. 45 pp. advertisements, including the catalogue of one hundred stereoscopic views of Egypt and Nubia, published by Negretti & Zambra. Gilt-decorated textured cloth, t.e.g.; spine crown repaired with tissue; light wear, foxing to several tissue guards; blank corner of one advert lacking. A very good copy. This is the first book to contain original mounted stereographs; the exposures were made by Smyth on Teneriffe in the mid 1850s, and serves as an important astronomical report. The publisher's adverts are dated January 1858. TRUTHFUL LENS No.152. Gernsheim - INCUNABULA No. 79. Roosens and Salu No. 9814. Seller Inventory # 25970
Bibliographic Details
Title: TENERIFFE, AN ASTRONOMER'S EXPERIMENT OR, ...
Publisher: Lovell Reeve, London
Publication Date: 1858
Edition: First edition.
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