BRADFORD, Duncan. Wonders of the Heavens. First Edition.

Boston: American Stationers Company. John B. Russell., 1837.

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, aërolites, &c.: Illustrated by numerous maps and engravings.
viii, [1], 10-371, [1] p., [15] leaves of plates (some folded and some color), illustrated throughout. Printed in two columns with borders.

Bound in ¾ leather with marbled boards, gilt bands at spine, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. With decorative paper title label on cover.



H: 13 W: 11 in.

With label at front pastedown, Huntington & Mac Intire / Booksellers / Columbus, Ohio.

Some slight foxing throughout, slight water damage at head or text p. 317-371, increased foxing p.317 -371. Front spine and hinge cracked, tail of spine pulled, edges rubbed, corners bumped, binding soiled; frontis detached. Plates iii and iv partially detached.