The Gallery Of Nature: A Pictorial And Descriptive Tour Through Creation,.
Bound in original half green morocco over cloth; spine in compartments with raised bands with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Slight wear to extremities and some light foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplates of John Wilder.
£250.00
Publisher
Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row.,
Place
London
Date
1846
Synopsis
Illustrative of the wonders of astronomy, physical geography, and geology. by the rev. thomas milner, m.a. with four maps of the sideral heavens, showing the positions of the stars throughout the year; eight line engravings, and two hundred and fifty vignettes on wood, exhibiting remarkable natural phenomena; with several hundred diagrams and sections.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. FIRST ISSUE. Large 8vo. 7 x 10 inches. xii + 803 + [1] pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 16 steel engraved plates, including frontispiece, engraved title, 4 double page star maps in blue and black, 3 double page planispheres of the earth and moon( and also includes an additional hand coloured meteorological map of the world, p. 498, not called for in the list of illustrations), by 250 wood engraved vignettes in text and by diagrams and sections. Decorated by initials.
Notes
Copiously illustrated work on astronomy, physical geography and geology by Thomas Milner (d.1882). This is the first issue of the 1846 first edition. COPAC includes an 1846 copy which has a revised text to include the discovery of the planet Neptune in that year.
[Stock No. 24476]
Subjects
19th Century • Astronomy • Geology • Natural History/Science • Science