Popular Astronomy (2 Volumes).
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Hardcover. First Edition. First English Edition. xlviii, 707, 24 [ads] pp XIX Plates; xxxii, 846, 24 [ads], XX-(XXIV), 8vo. Green cloth boards with blind embossed borders to front and rear boards, gold embossed titling to spine that has darkened slightly from sun and air exposure. Rear hinge cloth of Volume I has split but still tight to boards and a tape repair was made along rear interior hinge, 1" x 1/2" piece missing from head of spine of Volume II, frontispiece illustration of Saturn has ghosted onto title page. Very clean within. Heavily illustrated in text and with folding plates at rear. Good. More