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THB[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [ASTRONOMY]. BARNARD, Edward Emerson (1857-1923). A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Washington: Carnegie Insti
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[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [ASTRONOMY]. BARNARD, Edward Emerson (1857-1923). A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927. Large oblong 4tos. Volume I illustrated with 51 mounted photographs (mounted on cloth) of regions of space and several intertextual illustrations; volume II illustrated with 50 charts. 32; unpaginated pp. Publisher's full brown cloth, spines ruled and lettered in gilt.
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Bindings worn, soiled, endleaves and text toned, several gutters cracking. Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME AND MONUMENTAL WORK WITH ORIGINAL MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MILKY WAY. With the ownership signature of physicist Carl Dolnick. A scarce collection of original photographs and charts of regions of the Milky Way, by one of the most important astronomers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Volume I is Photographs and Descriptions, volume II is Charts and Tables.
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