The Moon in Modern Astronomy, Philip Fauth. First English Edition.
The Moon in Modern Astronomy, Philip Fauth
First English edition of Fauth's account of twenty years observing and mapping the Moon, examining its craters, mountains and rills, and contemporary debates over changes to the lunar surface. Translated by Joseph McCabe, with an introduction by J. Ellard Gore. Illustrated with a striking blue lunar frontispiece and 66 illustrations in the text.
London: A. Owen & Co., [1907]. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and front board; pp. 160 plus two leaves of telescope advertisements and a 12-page publisher's catalogue at the rear. A very good copy, with light shelfwear, rubbing and a small bump to the upper edge of the rear board near the spine. Foxing and offsetting to the endpapers; text otherwise clean. Binding firm, though a little over-opened at the centre. Armorial bookplate of A. M. Shand and a G. E. Stechert & Co. bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
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