Feb 10, 2003 - Sale 1959

Sale 1959 - Lot 38

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
(ASTRONOMY) barnard, edward emerson
A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Parts I & II. Together, 2 volumes. By Edward Emerson Barnard. Part I is illustrated with 51 tipped in silver photographs of constellations. Square 4to, cloth, lightly worn and soiled; offsetting of the frontispiece on the title page; ex-library bookplates on the front pastedown and hand stamps throughout (not affecting the images). one of 700 copies. Carnegie Institue of Washington, D. C., 1927
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The first photographic atlas of the northern Milky Way to illustrate dark nebulae.