Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871)
Results of Astronomical Observations made during 1834-1838 at the Cape of Good Hope.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847.

First edition, large quarto, presentation copy, with engraved leaf presenting this copy from Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, to Edward Everett with the best respects of the author, illustrated with lithographic frontispiece and seventeen folding engraved or lithographic plates; bound in publisher's full blind-stamped cloth, with gilt-lettered spine, neatly rebacked, Everett's bookplate inside front board, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.

First edition of Herschel's exhaustive survey of the night sky of the southern hemisphere.

DSB VI, 326. BEA, pages 493-94; Norman 1056.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.