La Terre et le Ciel.
by GUILLEMIN, Amedee (1826-1893)
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- Hardcover
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Montreux, Switzerland
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About This Item
Paris:: Librairie Hachette, 1897., 1897. Sm. 8vo. 320 pp. 128 engravings. Original black- and gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth, all edges gilt; corners slightly bumped. Fine. Third edition. A fantastically illustrated text on geology and astronomy, in which Guillemin spends considerable time comparing the topography of earth with that of Mars and the moon. He also spends a couple chapters on Saturn and the sun, as well as the history of astronomy and "La Dynastie des Herschel".
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RW1113
- Title
- La Terre et le Ciel.
- Author
- GUILLEMIN, Amedee (1826-1893)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Librairie Hachette, 1897.
- Place of Publication
- Paris:
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Astronomy
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