A Library of Curiosities - Part II
Sat, Nov 8, 2025 10:00AM EST
Lot 29
GLAISHER, James, 1809-1903. Travels in the Air.
Estimate: $100 - $200
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GLAISHER, James, 1809-1903. Travels in the Air by James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. De Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier; with one hundred and twenty-five illustrations.
2nd ed.
Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1871.
xxix, 398 pages : color frontis with guard sheet, illustrated, including six color chromolithograph plates.
Bound in pictorial cloth; with new endpapers, half-title partially detached.
H: 10 1/2 W: 7 1/2 in.
Condition
Very Good. Covers slightly soiled.
With two bookplates, “Henry A. Rowland,” on front pastedown endpapers. With “Henry A. Rowland” signature on front free endpaper. Henry Augustus Rowland (November 27, 1848 – April 16, 1901) was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum.
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