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Edité par New York, J. Winchester, 1843., 1843
Vendeur : C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Allemagne
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31 (1) pages, with a total of 9 woodblocks - from few-lines- to over halfpage size depicting comets 'in flight' or graphic calculations of their tracks. - Stringbound newspaper with editor's illustrated headpiece on page 1, no binding; folio.(ca. 28 x 20 cm). *** [Endgültig ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF / Ultimately fading SPRING-SALE: um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 06.05.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of almost 50% until Monday, May 6th 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 165,-] --- FIRST EDITION OF THE RARE MAGAZINE-ISSUE, ORIGINAL MARCH-1843 ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER; CONTAINING THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF AROGO'S TEXT, in which the not-named translator states in his/her 'Preface' that ''Having . . . possessed the French Annuaire for 1832, and being much gratified by Mons. Arago's 'Notice on the subject of Comets' . . . [he] has looked . . . for any announcement of the work in English. . . This hope having been disappointed, . . ., he has, though late, ventured to attempt the delicate, and in some sense difficult, task of expressing a work of science in another language with correctness. . .''. - Paper-'spine' partly rubbed of at first layer and with shallow humiditystain throughout, sharp-corner of last sheet with short - apparently modern - tape-repair; OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE PUBLICATION.