moon considered planet world satellite von nasmyth james carpenter james (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 11.60x8.20x0.60 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illus.; photos, 8.5 x 6", gilt-pict blue cloth, 315pp, covers quite rubbed, extremities rather badly bumped and worn, endpapers quite browned, former owner's ink name on front fly, inner hinges cracking, pp toned with some finger soiling. Fourth Edition (the first was in 1874!).

Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. Third Edition. Book measures 23x17.cm. Collation, xv,[1],213pp, 24 plates, lacking plate 24 '' Aspect of an Eclipse of the Sun as it would appear as seen from the Moon '', text illustrations. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with image on top board. Cloth heavily worn, spine heavily faded. Internally, school library bookplate, stamp on title page, contents, becoming loose but holding, some pages slightly grubby, or have short tears. Generally a better than working copy. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. pp.xvi, 213 pages, a good hardback, publisher's navy blue cloth binding. Solid binding although the spine has torn off parts at the top and base. Including half-title, Woodburytype frontispiece, 46 text illustrations, and 23 mounted Woodburytypes (1 has fallen out) and one chromolithograph. From a university & the frontispiece has been tipped in. Please contact us if you would like photos or more information. The book is now on ebay so photos can be found there.

First edition; 4to; halftone frontispiece, 23 plates of which 11 are mounted Woodburytypes, 4 are heliotypes, and 1 is a tinted lithograph, illustrations within the text, single leaf of publisher's ads dated December, 1873, a few small spots but overall contents clean; original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, illustration blocked in gilt and black to the upper board, brown coated endpapers, top edge gilt, cloth a little rubbed and marked, two tiny wormholes in the lower joint, an excellent copy; 189pp. First edition and an unusually nice copy of this remarkable astronomical work by the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890), one of the first books illustrated with photomechanical processes and famed for its rich Woodburytype depictions of the lunar surface. Nasmyth made his fortune by perfecting the steam hammer used for manufacturing iron, then retired to Kent and indulged his interest in photography and astronomy. 'He was a very accomplished amateur astronomer, designing and building his own telescopes and using them for systematic observations of the moon and the sun' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Photography was not yet capable of capturing details of the Moon's surface, so Nasmyth made plaster casts based on his observations of lunar features and then photographed them under electric light to achieve crisp shadows. The resulting images were published in The Moon as Woodburytypes, a new photographic reproduction process that had been patented in 1864. 'The Woodburytype process was one of the first successful photomechanical processes fully able to reproduce the delicate halftones of photographs. It was often considered the most perfect, most beautiful photomechanical process and inspired a number of books, magazines, and special edition printings between 1864 and 1910' (Stulik & Kaplan, Woodburytype, p. 4). Nasmyth's co-author, astronomer James Carpenter (1840-1899), worked at the Royal Observatory where he made significant observations of stellar spectra and the underside of the rings of Saturn.

Third edition; 8vo; frontispiece and 24 mounted Woodburytypes and 1 chromolithograph, illustrations within the text, bookplate, ownership signature on the half title, contents unevenly spotted, a few gatherings in the second half unopened; original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, lunar crater image to upper board in silver and black, black coated endpapers, corners and ends of spine worn, partial tanning of the cloth, very good condition. Third edition, originally published in 1874, of this remarkable astronomical work by the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890), one of the first books illustrated with photomechanical processes and famed for its rich Woodburytype depictions of the lunar surface. Nasmyth made his fortune by perfecting the steam hammer used for manufacturing iron, then retired to Kent and indulged his interest in photography and astronomy. 'He was a very accomplished amateur astronomer, designing and building his own telescopes and using them for systematic observations of the moon and the sun' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Photography was not yet capable of capturing details of the Moon's surface, so Nasmyth made plaster casts based on his observations of lunar features and then photographed them under electric light to achieve crisp shadows. The resulting images were published in The Moon as Woodburytypes, a new photographic reproduction process that had been patented in 1864. 'The Woodburytype process was one of the first successful photomechanical processes fully able to reproduce the delicate halftones of photographs. It was often considered the most perfect, most beautiful photomechanical process and inspired a number of books, magazines, and special edition printings between 1864 and 1910' (Stulik & Kaplan, Woodburytype, p. 4). Nasmyth's co-author, astronomer James Carpenter (1840-1899), worked at the Royal Observatory where he made significant observations of stellar spectra and the underside of the rings of Saturn.