Item #13121 An Eclipse Party in Africa, Chasing Summer Across the Equator in the U.S.S. Pensacola. Eben J. Loomis.

An Eclipse Party in Africa, Chasing Summer Across the Equator in the U.S.S. Pensacola

Roberts Brothers: Boston, 1896.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 218 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. Green and silver pictorial binding. Extremities rubbed, slight dust soil, bookplate of John R. Zimmerman on front pastedown. Account of the United States Scientific Expedition, which sailed on the U.S.S. Pensacola to observe a total eclipse of the sun on December 22, 1889. Loomis, a professional astronomer, provides well-illustrated and interesting description of the places visited, including St. Helena, Cape Town, the Karroo, and Kimberley. Mendelssohn I, 925.

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