Editore: Offprint from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. 4to, 1889
Da: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, Regno Unito
EUR 59,67
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Aggiungi al carrellopp. 291-350. 2 lithographed plates, 7 text figures. Wraps lacking with exposed pages dusty and nicked at the edges and corners. *LEONARD DARWIN [1850-1943], eighth child of Charles and Emma Darwin, commissioned in the Royal Engineers, 1870. In the above paper, he contributed sections on the Coronograph and the Prismatic Camera, having had a longstanding interest in photography. He had photographed his father at Down House, in a basket chair, a much reproduced image.