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[RUSSELL, H.C.]. Description of the Star Camera, at the Sydney Observatory.
Sydney, 1892. slender quarto red cloth, the front titled and blocked in gilt (spine a bit chipped); [2],15pp, one photo plate and 8 plates (4 double page) of measured drawings. The author’s presentation inscription marred by the erasure of the recipient’s name. ¶ Fairly rare. The star camera was the outcome of the 1887 astronomical conference in Paris which won Sydney its place in the great international project of photographically mapping the heavens. The camera, with the exception of the photographic objective and the large tangent screw, was made in Sydney and in 1890 used to make the first photographs of the Milky-Way in southern skies.
Offered for AUD 750.00 = appr. US$ 597.75 by: Richard Neylon, Bookseller - Book number: 7241