STAR-LAND: Being Talks with Young People...Wonders of the Heavens

by Ball, Sir Robert S

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London:: Cassell,, 1889. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips repaired; spine & cover gilt bright; contents clean, tight; otherwise good.. index. With b&w drawings. Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Cambridge Lecturer on Astronomy; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; knighted 1886 `for services to science & education'; in popular demand as speaker on science & astronomy; gave over 700 such lectures. ||| `Star-Land' was based on his Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures for juveniles, first published 1889 in a small prtg. It was so well received that it was reprinted & revised in increasing numbers until WW-1. ||| The 1889 issue in respectable condition is not common.