Item #55611 An account of Donati's Comet of 1858. Extracted from the Mathematical Monthly, with two fine steel plates, 4to size, and twenty-one woodcuts. George Phillips Bond.

An account of Donati's Comet of 1858. Extracted from the Mathematical Monthly, with two fine steel plates, 4to size, and twenty-one woodcuts

Cambridge: published by John Bartlett, 1858. First separate edition, 4to, pp. [2], 33, [1]; self wrappers; ink stain in the bottom margin from p. 16 onwards (not touching any text), some toning; in all, a very good copy. Bond (1825-1865) was director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a pioneer in the photography of stars. Item #55611

Price: $350.00

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