SCARCE 100+ YEAR OLD GERMAN AMATEUR ASTRONOMY

MAGAZINE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 

A BOUND YEAR OF SIRIUS MAGAZINE

1913

Includes 13 Plates and 2 Barnard photos, 

one of several exposures of Saturn in 1911

and one of the double cluster in Perseus 

plus articles on Mars, telescopes, observatories, , etc.

 Near fine condition.

Description: Dr. Hans Hermann J. Klein, editor: SIRIUS: Zeitschrift für Populäre Astronomie, V 46, 12 monthly issues, Leipzig: Eduard Heinrich Meyer. 1913; 6.5 x 9 in ;  Pages numbered from 1-288. 14 full page plates, and several photos anddiagrams in text. 

Condition: Hardbound in new red heavy buckram with gilt title on spine. Inside and out the bound issues are clean, crisp, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Overall near fine condition.

Information: An informative and unusual old compilation of popular astronomy articles from Germany, in German, with some seldom-seen illustrations.  Includes reproductions of two photographs by the great comet hunter and astrophotographer E.E. Barnard, one showing several exposures of Saturn taken from Mt. Wilson in 1911, and another of the double cluster in Perseus taken at Yerkes Observatory in 1904. There are also photos of comet Brooks in 1911, drawings of Mars made in Stockholm in 1911, and articles about planets, star clusters, variable stars, astronomical instruments, meteors, cosmology, comets, et. 

A nice addition to any library on astronomy, stars, galaxies, astrophotography, amateur astronomy, history of astronomy, planets, astronomical instruments, telescopes, etc. etc. I have other volumes of this magazine available—please inquire if interested.

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