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BARNARD, EDWARD EMERSON. Photographs of the Milky Way and of Cometsmade with the Six-Inch Willard Lens and Crocker Telescope during the Years 1892 to 1895. 129 gravure plates reproducing photographs by Barnard. Errata slip. 4to, original cloth with shelf label on spine, binding cocked, front hinge cracked; embossed stamp on title, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; institutional bookplate and release stamps. Sacramento, 1913
first edition. Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume 11. "Barnard was the foremost observational astronomer of his time . . . Of great importance was the beginning Barnard made in photographing the Milky Way"--DSB I, 463-67.
