[Science - Photography - Astronomy] Nasmyth and Carpenter's Famous Photographic Study of the Moon - Complete with 24 Illustrated Plates Including 12 Woodburytype Photos of Lunar Models and a Striking Chromolithograph of A Solar Eclipse

Nasmyth, James and Carpenter, James. THE MOON: CONSIDERED AS A PLANET, A WORLD, AND A SATELLITE. London: J. Murray, 1874. 2nd Edition. 4to in original blue cloth with gilt and black pictorial upper cover (volcanic eruption) and gilt titling to the spine. Illustrated with 24 plates of the lunar surface and other phenomena, including a total of 23 (on 20 plates) woodburytypes, among other illustrations. From OCLC: "Nasmyths wonderfully evocative representations of the lunar surface are the most realistic ever produced by earthbound observers. James Nasmyth was not only the inventor of the steam hammer, that great symbol of victorian engineering, but was also an enthusiastic astronomer. He built a series of increasingly powerful telescopes and won a prize medal at the Great Exhibition for his drawings of the lunar surface (he had inherited a talent for drawing from his father, the painter Alexander Nasmyth...."

With soiling and rubbing to the cloth covers, including head and tail of spine and corners; binding has loosened but contents clean and complete.

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