BALL, Sir Robert Stawell.
Star-Land.
Star-Land.
Being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. With 94 illustrations and a Rembrandt frontispiece. Thirty-fifth thousand.
Stock Code 120945
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1908.
lovely binding
A handsomely bound copy of this classic of popular astronomy, awarded as a prize for mathematics by the Ruthin Grammar School in 1909. Star-Land, originally published in 1889 and comprehensively illustrated, is based on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures that Ball presented in 1881 and 1887. The chapters cover the sun, moon, inner planets, gas giants, comets and shooting stars, and stars.Robert Stanwell Ball (1840-1913) was Royal Astronomer of Ireland, a 'first-class popular lecturer', and 'widely known author of popular science books on astronomy' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). 'His most popular books went through many editions; in particular, The Story of the Heavens (1885) had a new edition as late as 1950 and continued to provide inspiration to keen enquirers into astronomy' (ODNB).
Thirty-fifth thousand; 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm), frontispiece from photograph, illustrations throughout the text, contents fresh; contemporary blue calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, double gilt fillets and crest of the Ruthin Grammar School in gilt to the boards, marbled endpapers and edges, calf just a little rubbed at the extremities, an excellent copy; 388pp.
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