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Sale 2582 - Lot 153
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Keeler, James Edward (1857-1900)
Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume VIII.
Sacramento: University of California Publications, 1908.
Folio, illustrated with seventy-one photogravure images of space numbered 1 through 70, (two plates numbered 30A and 30B; plate ten bound as frontispiece), each image thrown out on a guard and protected with a tissue guard, bound in full publisher's pebbled cloth, somewhat shaken and abraded, contents good, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.
At the Lick Observatory, Keeler used the Crossley telescope to photograph distant nebulae. After a stroke claimed his life at the age of 43, Keeler's colleagues at the Observatory gathered his images and work in the present publication.
Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume VIII.
Sacramento: University of California Publications, 1908.
Folio, illustrated with seventy-one photogravure images of space numbered 1 through 70, (two plates numbered 30A and 30B; plate ten bound as frontispiece), each image thrown out on a guard and protected with a tissue guard, bound in full publisher's pebbled cloth, somewhat shaken and abraded, contents good, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.
At the Lick Observatory, Keeler used the Crossley telescope to photograph distant nebulae. After a stroke claimed his life at the age of 43, Keeler's colleagues at the Observatory gathered his images and work in the present publication.