$7,638
Barnard, Edward Emerson, A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way , Parts I & II, Carnegie Institute of Washington: 1927, 247 of 700, 4to; Vol. 1, Photographs and Descriptions, comprising 51 large tipped-in silver prints of the constellations, linen-backed, listing title, ascension and declination, an illustration of the Bruce Photographic Telescope at Yerkes University, and Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky; Vol. 2, the corresponding Charts and Tables; fabric covers (overall fine condition, offsetting of the frontispiece on title page of vol. 1). Provenance: Formerly in the personal collection of Lee Price. Literature: Sky and Telescope , Dec. 2005. The first photographic atlas of the northern Milky Way to illustrate dark nebulae. Please leave short space.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-07-29