Hawks, Ellison.

Stars Shown to the Children. Illustrated.

London & Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack, no year (c.1910) 12 cm x 16.5 cm. Frontispiece, XIIi, 119 pages. Numerous monochrome photographs and colour illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Gilt pictoral and letter on front board. Bound silken blue bookmarker. Gilt top edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded and sunned. Crack to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still strong and firm. Browning to endpapers. Interior bright and clean. [ Shown to the Children Series, No. 9]

Includes, for example, the following: The Sun’s Family of Planets / The Moon / Halley’s Comets / Shooting Stars / The Green Flash of the Northen Lights / The Stars Themselves / The Great Bear / The Constellation of Orion / The Nebule / The Milky Way / Photographing the Stars / Astronomers and Their Work / The Telescope etc.

• Keywords: Astronomers · Astronomy · Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Comets · Illustrated Books · Illustrated Children’s Books · Jupiter · Mars · Mercury · Moon · Neptune · Observatories · Planets · Saturn · Shown to the Children Series · Space · Stars · Sun · Telescope(s) · The Milky Way · Uranus · Venus
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120251AB

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