Der Mond: Ein Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Umfang und Standpunkt unserer Kenntnisse von der Oberflächengestaltung und Physik dieses Weltkörpers.

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8vo (227 x 146 mm). x, [2], 163 [1] pp., 2 chromolithographic plates (the first bound as frontispiece), errata leaf after preliminaries. Contemporary half cloth over blue marbled boards, gilt-ruled and -lettered spine (old remnants of paper label, light rubbing). Text little age-toned, occasional foxing. Provenance: Convent. P. P. Capuciner Confluentiae I. V. (stamp on title). ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall 17; Poggendorf II, 820; DSB XII, p.192. - FIRST EDITION of this fundamental selenographic work by the German astronomer and geophysicist Schmidt (1825-1884). Of special interest are the two plates showing topological details at the lunar terminator. The first plate depicts the crater field around Tycho and the second the Caucasus mountain range, both with long shadow casts of sunset. These two chromolithographs are "among the most vivid of nineteenth-century lunar illustrations" (Ashworth, 17). "Schmidt (1825-1884) reportedly became interested in the moon when, at the age of 14, he came across a copy of Schroter's Selenotopographical Fragments. Schmidt devoted the rest of his life to observing, measuring, and drawing the moon, amassing in the process an incredible amount of selenographic information. He began his career in Germany, spent some time in Moravia, and in 1858 became Director of the Athens Observatory in Greece. His observing was done with a variety of telescopes, most notably a 6-foot refractor by Plossl. Schmidt is best known for his moon map, but this earlier treatise, written just before the move to Athens, is an important contribution in its own right, since it contains the first results of his measurements of the altitudes of the moon's mountains" (Ashworth, 17). - Visit our website to see more images! N° de ref. del artículo 002210

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