BARNARD, Edward Emerson (1857-1923). A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1927. 2 volumes, oblong 4° (249 x 266mm). Half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, plate of the Bruce Photographic Telescope, 51 mounted silver prints, 50 charts and tables. (Occasional very light marginal spotting and soiling, portrait lightly offset onto title of vol. I.) Original brown cloth (extremities rubbed, hinges to vol. I sometime repaired with tape perished, corners to vol. II bumped). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (stamps).

BARNARD, Edward Emerson (1857-1923). A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1927. 2 volumes, oblong 4° (249 x 266mm). Half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, plate of the Bruce Photographic Telescope, 51 mounted silver prints, 50 charts and tables. (Occasional very light marginal spotting and soiling, portrait lightly offset onto title of vol. I.) Original brown cloth (extremities rubbed, hinges to vol. I sometime repaired with tape perished, corners to vol. II bumped). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (stamps).

A LANDMARK OF ASTRONOMY. One of the first extensive star atlases with original photographs. These were taken using the Bruce photographic refractors at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and at Mount Wilson, California. ONE OF ONLY 700 COPIES PUBLISHED. RARE: ABPC records only two copies (one incomplete) selling at auction in over 30 years. (2)