The Wonders of the Heavens, Being a Popular View of Astronomy, Including a Full Illustration of the Mechanism of the Heavens; Embracing the Sun, Moon, and Stars, with Descriptions of the Planets, Comets, Fixed Stars, Double Stars, the Constellations, the Galaxy, or Milky-Way, the Zodiacal Light, Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, Meteors, Clouds, Falling Stars, Aerolites, &c. Illustrated by Numerous Maps and Engravings.
Boston: American Stationers Company, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, [9]-371pp. Modern black half cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold and blind. Text in two columns. Frontispiece, engraved title, seven inserted plates (five of which are of telescopic views of the moon), six foldout plates with hand-colored..... More