Hvezdny Atlas : Astronomie pro kazdeho se 41 obrazem a nekolika illustracemi v textu (Star Atlas: Astronomy for everyone with 41 images and several illustrations in the text)

Weisse, E., Dra. ; Dr. Jaroslav Jenista

Verlag: Jindrich Lorenz, Trebic, Czech Republic, 1903

Beschreibung

Scarce Czech astronomical atlas, complete with 41 plates, including the first photographed comet. World Cat locates one copy, at the National Library of the Czech Republic. The plates to this atlas are remarkable, in both their detail and color. They include lunar eclipses, sun flares, Mars, Jupiter, and the Donati comet, the most brilliant spectacle of 1852 which Abraham Lincoln watched from his porch in Illinois in the middle of the Lincoln Douglas debates. Donati is considered to be one of the earliest modern comets, the first to be photographed and its behavior carefully recorded by observers. Comets, even as late as the 1850s, were viewed with fear and awe; the brilliant Great Comet of 1811 was thought by some to be an omen of the beginning of the War of 1812. Tall 4to, 60pp, 41 plates. Quarter brown boards with a wonderful color pictorial illustration of an observatory on the front board. Covers rubbed and cover at rear board mostly lacking; red cloth spine with black title and decoration rubbed at tips and and split somewhat on back hinge. Internally, last 10pp with residue of old damp, with very little marks on the plates; plates XX & XXI with closed tears in margin, loosely inserted. Period owner signature at title page, "Karel A. Svestka, studijici gymnasia, "BeneÅ¡ov u Prahy" (Benesov by Prague). There is a Czech author Karel Svestka (1926-2012), whose adoptive father was also Karel Svestka. OCLC: 85667226 (1 copy) at the National Library of the Czech Republic. Despite its faults, the plates are in nice condition and are startlingly beautiful. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24183

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Hvezdny Atlas : Astronomie pro kazdeho se 41...

Verlag: Jindrich Lorenz, Trebic, Czech Republic

Erscheinungsdatum: 1903

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good condition