Description

DESCRIPTION: Includes ten chapters, lists of atlases and charts, index and bibliography.

PUBLICATION DETAILS: 200 pages including 19 plates. Hardcover, original faux parchment covered boards with gilt embossed titles. Publisher:‎ Dawsons of Pall Mall, London.  This offering is the January 1968 reprint of the original publication by Search Publishing Company, London in1932.

BROWN: Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called “one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time”. Brown observed the final stages of the transit of Mercury early in the morning of 7 May 1924 with a 2” (50mm) aperture telescope. In the same year he published articles on astronomical mapping and cataloguing in The English Mechanic and World of Science magazine. Also in 1932 Brown’s Astronomical Atlases, Maps and Charts: An Historical and General Guide appeared in print which he had been working on since 1928. Brown also observed meteors, the aurora and the zodiacal light for the British Astronomical Association.  Astronomical Atlases was sufficiently popular to be reprinted in 1968, with his publisher describing it as “filling an inexplicable gap in the literature”(Wikipedia).

BOOKPLATE: Bookplate of John Howell, the founder of John Howell—Books, a San Francisco institution from 1912 until its demise in 1985. This was his personal copy.

CONDITION: Bookplate of John Howell. Like new.
 
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