ASTRONOMY TROUVELOT ÉTIENNE LÉOPOLD The Trouvelot Astronomic

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TROUVELOT, ÉTIENNE LÉOPOLD. The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings Manual. xii, 167 pages. 8vo, original blue cloth, spine darkened, with paper shelf label, ends chipped, front cover blistered; contents clean; institutional bookplate. New York, 1882

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first edition of the text volume published to accompany a portfolio of color reproductions of pastel drawings made by Trouvelot using the fifteen-inch refractor at Harvard Observatory. "Except for Rutherfurd's wet-plate photographs of the sun and moon, made in 1865, Trouvelot's drawings were considered the most accurate pictures of celestial objects available until the perfection of dry-plate photography"--DSB XIII, 472. BEA, pages 1149-50.