The Moon Hoax Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made By Sir John Herschel Ll D F R S C At The Cape

by Richard Adams Locke

$17,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

N.p., n.d. New York: New York Sun Office, 1835. . Large octavo 235x145 mm , pp. 1 2-28, two large plates 350x410 mm , folded and linen-backed, with lithographed views of Lunar Temples and Lunar Animals and Other Objects, both copyright 1835 by Benjamin H. Day publisher of the SUN , uncut bound with related material in quarter red leather and green pebbled cloth . First edition, first book

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