May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP, editor. Uranometria Argentina. Brightness and Position of Every Fixed Star, down to the Seventh Magnitude, within One Hundred Degrees of the South Pole. Text volume only, without the atlas. Half-title * The Argentine General Catalogue. Mean Positions of Southern Stars determined at the National Observatory. Half-title; errata slip. Together, 2 volumes, each with English and Spanish text in parallel columns. 4to, original 1/4 and 1/2 morocco gilt, extremities quite worn; contents clean. Buenos Aires, 1879; Córdoba, 1886
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first edition of Volumes 1 and 14 of the 15-volume Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino prepared under Gould's supervision. The Uranometria Argentina listed all naked-eye stars visible in the southern sky and confirmed the existence of "Gould's belt" of bright stars tilted at a 20° angle to the plane of the Milky Way; the Argentine General Catalogue recorded the positions of 32,448 stars. Gould was the first director of Argentine National Observatory at Córdoba, which he helped to establish. BEA, pages 433-34; DSB V, 479-80; Palau 106421-106422.