Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
NASMYTH, JAMES; and CARPENTER, JAMES. The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. 25 plates, comprising 24 mounted Woodburytypes and one chromolithograph; 46 text illustrations. Half-title. 8vo, original silver-pictorial cloth with depiction of lunar craters on front cover, spine darkened, ends rubbed; plate mounts slightly warped, with varying foxing. London: John Murray, 1885

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Third edition, in which almost all the plates are mounted photographs.