A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865; Compared with that of the Ordnance Survey Establishment, Subsidized by London Wealth, and under the Orders of Col. Sir Henry James (.) at the Same Place Four Years Afterwards: A Discourse Delivered before the Edinburgh Photographic Society on December 1st, 1869.

London, Henry Greenwood, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. 39, (ii), 23, (4) Publisher's ads. With 3 text figures. Includes an extended Appendices section. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's pebbled cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, blind decoration to back cover, brown chalked endpapers; upper board reattached, slight effect on first inner hinge. In a very good condition, fine and bright interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Beinlich-Seeber 18879, quoting the book unseen. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900). His remarkable essay in the original state. He was astronomer-royal for Scotland, professor of practical astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. He was heavily influenced by pyramid theorist John Taylor who theorized that the Great Pyramid was planned and the building supervised by the biblical Noah. Refused a grant by the Royal Society, Smyth went on an expedition to Egypt in order to accurately measure every surface, dimension, and aspect of the Great Pyramid. He subsequently published his book "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid" (1864). He claimed that the measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, a God-given measure handed down through the centuries from the time of Israel. His conclusion was that the architects of the pyramid could only have been directed by the hand of God. [NOTE: We offer also the first edition, in original binding, of Smyth' "New Measures of the Great Pyramid, by a New Measurer"]. M-2 .