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ROBERTS, ISAAC. A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters, and Nebulae,together with Information concerning the Instruments and the Methods employed in the Pursuit of Celestial Photography. 53 collotype plates. Folio, original cloth, binding cocked, minor spotting on covers, front hinge cracked; title with blank upper margin excised and heavily abraded stamp, contents otherwise clean. London, (1893)
first edition of the first of 2 collections of photographs taken at the author's private observatory in Crowborough, Sussex. "Roberts, a pioneer astrophotographer, demonstrated that long exposures in large, well-mounted reflecting telescopes could record details of nebulae not visible to the naked eye. His photographs of the Andromeda, Orion, and many other nebulae surpassed all prior efforts"--BEA, page 976.
