ASTRONOMY HERSCHEL JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM Sir Results of Ast

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HERSCHEL, JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sir. Results of Astronomical Observations made during the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; being, The Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens. Lithographed frontispiece and 17 folding engraved or lithographed plates. Lithographed presentation leaf from Algernon, Duke of Northumberland. 4to, original cloth, crudely rebacked with cloth tape, white ink lettering and shelf number on spine; title and plates foxed, blank lower inner corner off frontispiece. London, 1847

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first edition of Herschel's monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere. "By 1838 he had swept the whole of the southern sky, catalogued 1,707 nebulae and clusters, and listed 2,102 pairs of binary stars. He carried out star counts, on William Herschel's plan, of 68,948 stars in 3,000 sky areas"--DSB VI, 326. BEA, pages 493-94; Norman 1056.