Author: BALL, ROBERT STAWELL, SIR (1840-1913)
Title: Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens
Description: London. Paris [etc.] : Cassell and Company 1908. Revised Edition. 4th printing. Very good copy bound in contemporary gilt-blocked. full aniline calf. Raised band and elaborately gilt-tooled compartments to spine. Gilt filigree borders to front and back panel. Copy from Bridlington Grammar School with their gilt-tooled coat-of-arms to the front panel. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 388 pages; Description: vii. 388p. : frontis. (t.g). illus. ; 19.5cm. Subjects: Astronomy -- guidebooks -- juvenile audience. 'With 92 illustrations and a Rembrandt frontispiece. thirty-fifth thousand' --title page. First published in 1889. Based on a series of lectures given at the Royal Instituion of Great Britain in 1881 and 1887 'specially addressed to a juvenile audience' --preface to first edition.Weight in Kg appr.:

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