Description: 1904 First Edition, How to Know the Starry Heavens: An Invitation to the Study of Suns and Worlds, by Edward Irving, with Charts, Coloured Plates, Diagrams, and Many Engravings of Photographs. Frederick A. Stokes Co. Publishers: New York, 313 pp., 8.25” x 6” (8vo). Light blue-green boards with lettering and inked pictorials on cover and spine. Fun collector’s book or great gift for your astronomer. Facsimile copies of this book are available, but we find only 2 other original editions: Compare copy for $99.99 currently on Ebay and another at $85 on AbeBooks (both in equal or lesser condition). (For your botanist, please see our listing for “Wonders of Vegetation” – a decorative and profusely illustrated 1874 1st edition.) Condition is Good+. Corners bumped, with edge wear and light soil on cover (see photo). Gift inscription on front endpaper in neat script (1926) and ownership label pasted inside front cover. Light foxing on tissue guard over frontspiece and scattered light smudges on a few interior pages. Front hinge cracked, but binding is otherwise solid. " Everybody should study astronomy. It is the most delightful of all the sciences. It is the most inspiring of all. all. It lifts and broadens the mind. It rouses the imagination, and the imagination is the most God-like of human faculties, because it is the most creative. Let no one be deterred by the superstition that it is necessary to be a mathematician in order to understand and enjoy astronomy. You can let the mathematics of the subject severely alone and yet find inexhaustible pleasure and advantage in astronomical study. It is because they were compelled to begin at the mathematical end of the subject that hundreds of thousands of graduates from schools and colleges have virtually no knowledge of astronomy. Mathematical gifts are rare, but they are not essential to the enjoyment of astronomy.” (Dedication of the book) We will ship USPS Media Mail. For international shipping, please contact us for a quote. If you have any questions about this or any of our books, feel free to contact us and/or request additional photos. Who are we: This is another listing from "Nana's Top Shelf," a collection of first editions and other fine volumes collected over a lifetime from estate sales and booksellers across the East Coast and Europe. The collection specializes in late 19th and early 20th century illustrated children's books, fairy tales and folklore.
Price: 72 USD
Location: Davis, California
End Time: 2024-10-02T18:46:56.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.13 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Edward Irving
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Topic: Astronomy
Subject: Science & Medicine
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1904
