An account of Donati's Comet of 1858. Extracted from the Mathematical Monthly, with two fine steel plates, 4to size, and twenty-one woodcuts

by George Phillips Bond

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Cambridge: published by John Bartlett, 1858. First separate edition, 4to, pp. 2 , 33, 1 ; self wrappers; ink stain in the bottom margin from p. 16 onwards not touching any text , some toning; in all, a very good copy. Bond 1825-1865 was director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a pioneer in the photography of stars. Item #55611

• Binding: Wrappers

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