Description: |
Photographically illustrated book, entitled The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (New York: Scribner & Welford, 1885), containing twenty-four woodburytypes and one photolithograph by James Nasmyth (1808-1890). Titles follow.
958:0260:0001 -- Gassendi;
958:0260:0002 -- Crater of Vesuvius;
958:0260:0003 -- Back of Hand to Illustrate the Origin of Certain Mountain Ranges Resulting from Shrinkage of ther Interior;
958:0260:0004 -- Shrivelled Apple;
958:0260:0005 -- Full Moon;
958:0260:0006 -- Picture Map of the Moon;
958:0260:0007 -- Portion of the Moons Surface;
958:0260:0008 -- Vesuvius;
958:0260:0009 -- Copernicus;
958:0260:0010 -- The Lunar Apennines, Archimedes, &c, &c,;
958:0260:0011 -- Aristotle & Euxodus;
958:0260:0012 -- Triesnecker;
958:0260:0013 -- Theophilus, Cyrillus, & Catharina;
958:0260:0014 -- Ptolemy, Alphons, Arzachael;
958:0260:0015 -- Plato, The Valley of the Alps, Pico, &c;
958:0260:0016 -- Mercator & Campanus;
958:0260:0017 -- Tycho and its Surroundings;
958:0260:0018 -- An Ideal Sketch of “Pico” an Isolated Lunar Mountain 8000 feet high;
958:0260:0019 -- Glass Globe;
958:0260:0020 -- Wargentin;
958:0260:0021 -- Aristarchus & Herodotus;
958:0260:0022 -- Overlapping Crates;
958:0260:0023 -- Normal Lunar Crater;
958:0260:0024 -- Aspect of an Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, as it Would appear as Seen From the Moon;
958:0260:0025 -- Group of Lunar Mountains. |
