Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, Made Under the Authority of the British Government: And of the Reduction of the Observations

Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth; 4to; pp. viii, [2], 512, [2], 21 (appendix), plus 17 plates and laid-in errata slip. Spine sunned, chipped; cloth split along front joint; boards bumped along the edges. Contemporary ownership signature on title-p.; some faint foxing to first and last few leaves; small chips and closed tears along edges of errata slip. Uncommon.