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Observations of the August Meteors in 1871. - [OFFPRINT ISSUE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
[No place], 1871. 8vo. In the original blue wrappers with author's inscription, ""From the author"", to front wrapper. Offprint from ""The Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society"", november 15, 1871. Wrappers with soiling, otherwise fine. Pp. 33-37 + large folded plate.
Scarce offprint issue inscribed by the author of this short memoire of his observations of the meteors in August 1871.Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836 - 1907), son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel, did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. Herschel was the first to observe a meteor spectrum.
Path of the Large Fireball of November 6, 1869.
[No place], 1870. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""The Proceedings of the Meteorological Society"", June 15, 1870. No backstrip, light miscolouring to front wrapper. Fine and clean. Pp. 140-50.
First printing.
