Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 376pp. With pubs. cat. With eleven full page plates, some in colour and numerous illustrations in text. In very good condition. Spine rubbed at ends with small tear at top. Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. An interesting look at the Sun, from a late 19thC viewpoint. The author looks at the Sun and the Solar System, the Mass of the Sun, Sun-spots, Mechanical Theory of Heat, Importance of Carbon in the Sun, Seasons, Sun as a Star.

ASTRONOMY SIR ROBERT BALL, Story of the Sun, 19thC, Sun and the Solar System, the Mass of the Sun, Sun-spots, Mechanical Theory of Heat, Carbon, Sun, Seasons, Star