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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (Vol. 1 RARE, Vol. 2 reprint)
by Barnard, Edward Emerson
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Carnegie Institution of Washington. HARDCOVER. 1927. PASRMW :Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Carnegie Institution of Washington. HARDCOVER. 1927.- RARE Vol. 1 original with a contemporary reprint of Vol. 2 included.
By Edward Emerson Barnard; Edwin B. Frost (ed.); Mary R. Calvert (ed. - Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927. Publication No. 247. Composed and Printed by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
This mixed set includes a scarce vintage copy of the lavish first volume containing 51 glossy, original photographic prints mounted on linen backing. It is in a sturdy binding of brown cloth, showing scuffs and lightly worn extremities. Scant pencil notations neatly throughout. (Very Good). Volume Two (a Near Fine leatherbound reprint**) features charts and tables. Part 1 from the estate of radio astronomer Arthur Covington (1913-2001), by way of Astronomy contributor Alister Ling's collection.
51 plates, 50 charts, and tables. Vol. I: 10 x 11 inches; Vol. II: somewhat smaller. The first volume (Part 1) is bound in slightly scuffed brown cloth. bright gilt lettering on the spine. No jacket as issued. The front paste-down has Covington's bookplate affixed. Ink marks on the plate and pencil marks on the endpaper reference the print on which an asteroid named for Covington is captured. Ghosts of the frontispiece portrait appear burned onto the preceding endpaper as well as the following tissue guard and title page. Behind several of the plates, the backing has frayed slightly, showing a few stray threads. Page edges are toned and thumbed. See photos. Additional images are available upon request.
"Edward Emerson Barnard was an amateur astronomer who turned his love of astronomy and comet hunting into a career as a professional astronomer and astrophotographer.
His atlas was a historic work. The images were taken circa 1905 with the Bruce Telescope [at the Yerkes Observatory], a photographic instrument specially constructed for the task. It was a composite of three separate telescopes: a 10-inch aperture f/5 refractor, a 6.5-inch aperture f/5.4 refractor, and a 3-inch guidescope.
Only about 700 copies of the Atlas are thought to exist. The amazing thing about it is that each plate is an actual photographic print made from the original negative. Barnard, a perfectionist, personally inspected each of the 35,000 prints. However, the work was not completed at the time of his death in 1923. It was finally finished by Edwin B. Frost, then director of the Yerkes Observatory, and by Barnard's niece Mary R. Calvert and published in 1927."
-- Jerry Lodriguss on Astropix
Volume One from this listing is part of the original series of 700 copies, making it a scarce collector's item. Media Mail not available for this item. The charge for insurance and special handling is not included.
Subject: Science | Space Science | Astronomy | Astrophotography -
. Very Good. 1st. . Very Good. 1st.
Extended Description and Notes
THIS beautiful atlas contains fifty photographs of Milky Way regions taken by Prof. E. E. Barnard with the Bruce telescope of the Yerkes Observatory about twenty years ago. A grant for its publication was made by the Carnegie Institution of Washington so long ago as 1907, and the delay in its appearance is due to Barnard being for some years after that date engaged on the reproduction of his earlier photographs of the Milky Way and of Comets, which form Vol. 11 of the Publications of the Lick Observatory; and to the fact that with such a devoted and assiduous observer the making of observations always had prior claim to the publication of results. That such was so is indeed fortunate for astronomy, as there have been very few observers so skilful as he, and what little has been lost owing to lateness in publication is a small price to pay for the continuation of his observational work. Thus the great observer died five years before the publication of this atlas, and it appears ably edited by Prof. Edwin B. Frost and Miss R. Calvert, the latter of whom assisted Prof. Barnard with it during his lifetime. Most of the details of the form of publication had been settled, and the descriptions of the fields written, by Barnard himself.
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- City Lights Bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PASRMW-01
- Title
- A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (Vol. 1 RARE, Vol. 2 reprint)
- Author
- Barnard, Edward Emerson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- astronomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare; Astronomy and Outer Space;
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