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Cloud Crystals; A Snow-Flake Album. Collected and Edited by a Lady
Author: [Chickering, Frances E.] Publisher: New York D. Appleton & Company 1865 tall octavo, Full leather, Lithographs by J. F. Richardson, [iv], 158 pages. Condition: Near Fine. An interesting blend of scientific observation, literary expression, and graphic illustration on the topic of snowflakes and winter. Mrs. Chickering painstakingly copied these 200 snowflake forms from actual observation over several years and they are reproduced herein as white silhouettes on a dark brown printed background. The book opens with a scientific paper by Charles Smallwood on the subject of the relation of atmospheric electricity to the formation of snow crystals. Literary contributors include James Russell Lowell, Robert Burns, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Increase Mather, Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant, Milton, Tennyson, Gail Hamilton, and many others. Bound in leather over boards with all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, spine and both boards stamped in gilt and blind, raised bands on spine, and inside dentelles in gilt. Minor rubs to extremities and along joints, slight oxidation to a few plates, otherwise clean and tight. Americana Quantity available: 1. Price: US$300.00 |
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