The Selenographical Journal, Selenographical Society. Complete Run with Early Lunar Photographs.
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description: The Selenographical Journal First and only edition of the first journal devoted exclusively to lunar science, complete as a consecutive text run in five volumes. Published from 1878 to 1882, The Selenographical Journal records an extraordinary period in the history of astronomy, when the possibility of observable changes to the lunar surface remained a subject of serious scientific debate. As the Linda Hall Library succinctly notes, “The moon acquired its own journal in 1878.” Established under William Radcliffe Birt and edited by Edmund Neison (later Edmund Neville Nevill), the journal sought to coordinate lunar observers, regularize nomenclature and observational methods, and circulate new maps, drawings, and photographic evidence. One of its most prominent controversies concerned Hermann Klein’s supposed discovery of a new crater near Hyginus, represented here by a diagram printed in blue. The set is illustrated throughout with numerous separately inserted lunar maps, observational drawings, diagrams, and mounted photographic plates, including a carbon-process photograph of the Moon from a negative by A. Ainslie Common, together with other mounted lunar photographs. London: Warren Hall & James J. Lovitt, 1879–1883 [individual issues dated April 2, 1878–December 1882]. Five journal volumes bound in four physical volumes, with Volumes I and II bound together. Vol. I: nos. 1–10; pp. 12 “Memoranda”; iv, 40, Vol. II: nos. 11–22; pp. iv, 96. Vol. III: nos. 23–35; pp. iv, [2 Members’ List], 104. Vol. IV: nos. 36–47; pp. iv, 96. Vol. V: nos. 48–59; pp. iv, 96. A complete consecutive text run of 59 numbered issues, including no. 43, dated August 24, 1881. The textual run has been collated issue by issue and is complete. Illustrated throughout with numerous separately inserted lunar maps, observational drawings, diagrams, and mounted photographic plates; no definitive plate census has been located. Bound in dark blue half leather over marbled boards, the spines with raised…
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