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Carnegie Institution of Washington. HARDCOVER. 1927. PASRMW :Barnards 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. From the estate of radio astronomer Arthur Covington (1913-2001), by way of Astronomy contributor Alister Ling's…
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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (Vol. 1 RARE, Vol. 2 reprint)
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A PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF SELECTED REGIONS OF THE MILKY WAY: Part I: Photographs and Descriptions. Part II: Charts and Tables.
by BARNARD, Edward Emerson; edited by FROST, Edwin B.; CALVERT, Mary R.:
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Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1927. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Oblong quarto (Part I: 275mm x 250mm. Part II: 275mm x 275mm). Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, without dustwrapper as issued. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Part I with portrait frontispiece, halftone plate of the Bruce photographic telescope and 51 full-page silver photographic prints mounted on linen. Part II with 50 black and white charts and tables. An excellent better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with light mild bumping to the spine tips, the cloth a little marked and lightly rubbed to the extremities. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front endpaper of each volume, are intermittently spotted mainly to the first and last pages, with some offsetting of the portrait frontispiece onto the previous page and tissue guard. The facing page of plate 48 has a small tear to the bottom edge with associated creasing, which…
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