The Moon: Her motions, aspect, scenery, and physical condition
date: label: Date made
content: 1873
name: label: maker
content: Rutherfurd (Enlarged by Brothers)
label: author
content: Proctor, Richard A.
notes: label: Description
content: Book about the moon written by Richard A. Proctor, with two lunar photos, one showing the progress of lunar eclipse on October 4, 1865. Also, many plates and charts showing the measurements, distance, and motions of the moon. front of book says 3 photos, but only found 2. The second photo, to face page 214, is not the photo identified in the section Photographs by Rutherford. The missing photo is to face page 230 and is the "Third Quarter, Sept. 16, 1870.
label: Description
content: Several Plates are also missing: XVII and XVIII at the end of the book; XIX; and XXI and XXII. These may have been included in a separate "subscribers' folio volume" per note (*) at end of "Illustrations".
label: Description
content: The advertisements following page 394 are also missing.
label: Description
content: Inside the back cover is an inverted bookplate for John Barrow. Inside the front cover is bookplate for John Barrow along with a loosely inserted ribbon concerning the Best Wishes for Christmas and New Years, 1894.
label: Description
content: Published by Alfred Brothers; printed by Wyman and Sons, London.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Greater Manchester
topic: label: Subject
content: Moon
label: Subject
content: Books
label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Albert Boni
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.77.14.9
label: catalog number
content: 77.14.9
label: accession number
content: 299134
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 13 cm x 3.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in