The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919.

Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1971. Hardcover. Foreword by Donald H. Menzel. Small 4to. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 495pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Item #39243
ISBN: 0674374606

An exceptionally tight 'n' bright, all-around superb first edition of this thick history of this pioneering astronomical institution.

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