May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SMYTH, CHARLES PIAZZI. Madeira Spectroscopic being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the Solar Visible Spectrum. 19 lithographed plates, the last in color; mounted Woodburytype on title after drawing of Funchal Bay by the author. first edition * Micrometrical Measures of Gaseous Spectra Under High Dispersion. 29 double-page plates; 2 folding plates (the first torn and loose). first separate edition, reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, original cloth, both bindings somewhat soiled, first spine darkened; contents of the first volume foxed, second clean. Edinburgh, 1882; 1886

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"Smyth . . . charted the spectra of the sun, aurora, zodiacal light, the atmosphere under different meteorological conditions, and--in the laboratory--of various luminous gases"--DSB XII, 499. BEA, page 1068.