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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. Ingalls's Annotated Association Copy.

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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard

First edition of Barnard's monumental photographic atlas, one of only 700 copies printed and complete with 51 original gelatin silver photographs mounted on linen, together with 50 corresponding charts and tables. Barnard's wide-field photographs, made principally with the 10-inch Bruce photographic telescope, revealed the structure of the Milky Way with unprecedented clarity and supplied decisive visual evidence that many of its dark regions were not empty "holes" in the heavens, but clouds of obscuring interstellar matter. Barnard personally inspected the 35,700 individual prints required for the edition, rejecting any that failed to meet his standard. The atlas was published posthumously under the editorship of Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert, Barnard's longtime assistant.

This is the working copy of Albert G. Ingalls (1888-1958), the influential Scientific American editor whose articles, columns, and three-volume Amateur Telescope Making helped establish amateur telescope making as a serious movement in the United States. Ingalls has signed the first free endpaper in pencil, and numerous leaves and charts bear his penciled notes, additions, identifications, circles, and hatching. These are substantive working annotations rather than casual ownership marks: Ingalls repeatedly engages with Barnard's mapped dark nebulae and adds observational or interpretive information to the printed charts.

An extraordinary group of associated material remains with the set. The front endpaper bears Ingalls's late penciled note to his wife, Frances ("Frannie"), suggesting that the two volumes be offered to the noted amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Henry E. Paul (1908-1976), of Norwich, New York, for "maybe $20." Paul was a correspondent and a likely a friend of Ingalls, although there is no evidence that the set ever passed to him. Also laid in is a vintage portrait photograph of Barnard from the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Division of Publications, with publication stamp, crop marks, measurements, and editorial notations on the verso. Two clipped extracts from George Ellery Hale's illustrated article "Barnard's Dark Nebulae" are also present, with Ingalls's penciled scientific annotations and questions. The article appeared in Scribner's Magazine, volume 75, January 1924, pages 81-95.

Chicago and Washington, D.C.: The University of Chicago Press for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927. Two volumes, oblong quarto. Part I: Photographs and Descriptions, pp. vi, 32, [102], with portrait frontispiece and original tissue guard, full-page halftone of the Bruce photographic telescope, and 51 gelatin silver photographs mounted on linen. Part II: Charts and Tables, pp. [vi], [200], comprising 50 charts and 50 accompanying tables. Publisher's original tan-brown cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt.

A very good copy. Bindings remain sound, with general shelfwear, rubbing and scattered scuffs to the cloth, and light wear to corners and spine ends. Text leaves show mild age toning; the portrait has left the usual offset on the facing title page. The mounted photographs remain strong and well preserved. Ingalls's pencil annotations appear throughout both volumes. The laid-in photograph and article extracts show expected handling wear, toning, edge wear, and the publication markings described above. Complete, uncommon, and greatly distinguished by its direct association with one of the central figures in twentieth-century amateur astronomy.

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