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KEELER, JAMES EDWARD. Photographs of Nebulae and Clusters, made with the Crossley Reflector. 70 gravure plates after photographs by Keeler, with publisher's slip regarding plates 10 and 12 bound before frontispiece. 46 pages. 4to, 292x232 mm, original cloth, minor wear, gilt spine lettering slightly dulled; crisp, clean copy, but with central portion of plate 47 excised. Stamp of the astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See (1866-1962) on title. Sacramento: W. W. Shannon, 1908
first edition. Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume 8. One of the leading American astrophysicists of his time, Keeler (1857-1900) was known for his spectroscopic studies of the rings of Saturn and observations of nebulae using the 36-inch Crossley reflector at the Lick Observatory. "With that telescope, Keeler obtained the finest photographs to date of the spiral nebulae, which we know today as distant galaxies"--BEA, page 618. DSB VII, 270-71.
