Astronomy etc:   Rosse (Lord) Rosse Scientific Papers A uniq...

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Astronomy etc:   Rosse (Lord) Rosse Scientific Papers A unique collection of approx. 42 original articles, pamphlets, offprints etc., c. 1840 – 1908.

Many were first published by Royal Dublin Society, the Royal Society of London, Royal Astronomical Society, Philosophical Transactions, Symons Meteorological Magazine etc. The collection also includes a few lots by Otto Boeddicker, G. Johnstone Stoney and John L.E. Dreyer. Several are illustrated with plts. Fold. tables & original photographs.

Works include, Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars made with the Six-foot and Three-foot Reflectors at Birr Castle, from the Year 1848 up to the Year 1878. Lg. 4to D. (R.D.S.) 1880, 6 plates; Notes on the Physical Appearance of the Planet Jupiter during the Season 1880-1. Accompanied by Sketches Made at … Birr Castle, by Otto Boeddicker, with plate, Observations of the Planet Jupiter, Made with the Reflector of Three-feet Aperture, at Birr Castle.. by Otto Boeddicker, PhD, Dublin 1889; Notes to Chromolithographs from Drawings of the Planet Jupiter made with the Six-foot Reflector at Parsonstown in the Years 1872 and 1873, 8vo Lond. 1874 16illus; Notes to Accompany Photographs of Drawings of the Planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn made at Parsonstown during the Years 1856 to 1868, 8vo Lond. 1873., 45 orig. sm. Photos; On The Construction of Specula of Six-feet Aperture and a Selection from the Observations of Nebulae made with them, 4to Lond. (Phil. Transactions) 1862; An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope, by the Rt. Hon. Lord Oxmanton, 4to Lond. 1840; etc. etc.

Also includes some newscuttings etc. The entire bound in one 8vo and two large 4to volumes, full cont. crushed uniform mor. in the style of Riviere, raised bands, gilt spines in panels. V. good. As a coll. of Papers, w.a.f. (3)

Provenance:  Birr Castle Estate.

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Some offprints including "On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes's, or Polarization Stress in Gases" by G. Johnstone Stoney 1878.

Some diagrams and pages loose.
Some foxing through out.

Please see extra images attached.