Stettin, Th. von der Nahmer, 1871. Contemp. full cloth. Title in gilt on frontcover. VIII,268 pp. and 4 folded lithographed plates. Some faint pencil notes in margins.
First edition in which Schiaparelli’s expounds his hypothesis on the origin of meteors, elaborated in depth and with elegance, a theory which has been fully confirmed later.
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