Item #181578 Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. Robert Stawell Ball, Sir.

Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens

1908, Revised Edition, 4th printing. London, Paris [etc.] : Cassell and Company. Very good copy bound in contemporary gilt-blocked, full aniline calf. Raised band and elaborately gilt-tooled compartments to spine. Gilt filigree borders to front and back panel. Copy from Bridlington Grammar School with their gilt-tooled coat-of-arms to the front panel. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages; Description: vii, 388p. : frontis. (t.g)., illus. ; 19.5cm. Subjects: Astronomy -- guidebooks -- juvenile audience. "With 92 illustrations and a Rembrandt frontispiece ... thirty-fifth thousand" --title page. First published in 1889. Based on a series of lectures given at the Royal Instituion of Great Britain in 1881 and 1887 "specially addressed to a juvenile audience" --preface to first edition. Item #181578

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