ASTRA CASTRA: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere

First Edition. THE DEDICATION COPY. A Copy with Fine Provenance, being the copy given by the author to his mother, the true dedicatee of the book as noted in the printed Dedication itself which reads "To The Lady Caroline Turnor and Christopher Turnor in Grateful Rembrance of Their Parental Care.This Volume is Dedicated by Their Son. The volume is further inscribed by hand as follows: <br><br>"My dear Mother<br> from her son Hatton<br>Knowledge is not Wisdom.<br>Knowledge puffeth up but Charity edifieth<br><br>This work was begun October 1863 &<br>finishes October 1864, from October till June<br>it was going thro' the prep<br> 21 June 1865" Profusely illustrated throughout including a chromolithographic frontispiece, a photographic print tipped to the dedication page and 40 other full-page photozincographic plates on heavy paper and textual illustrations throughout in great number. Folio, 326 x 252 mm., publisher's original royal-blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper and lower covers decorated in gilt and blind, original coated endleaves, top edge gilt. xxiii, 530 pp. A very handsome copy and very well preserved, a little evidence of shelving and a little evidence of age, but a very pleasing copy especially desirable in its present condition.