Spherical Astronomy, F. Brunnow, Berlin & London, 1865

Spherical Astronomy by Friedrich Brunnow (1811–1891) was one of the most important mid-19th century textbooks on positional astronomy, providing a rigorous mathematical treatment of celestial coordinates, time-keeping, and orbital motion. First published in German, it became a standard university text, valued for its clarity and precision at a time when observational astronomy was becoming increasingly professionalised. The present volume, printed in Berlin in 1865 but issued with a London imprint, is the first English edition, translated under Brunnow's supervision to widen its readership among British and American astronomers. Copies are uncommon on the market, particularly in the original cloth binding.

Spherical Astronomy, by F. Brunnow, PH., DR. Translated by the Author from the Second German Edition.

Published by Ferd. Dummler, Berlin & Aher & Co., London, 1865. Printed in Berlin.

A good navy blue hardback, in original Publisher's cloth, with blind embossed decoration and gilt titles to spine. With light bumping and wear. Endpapers age-toned and inner hinge is cracked at rear to webbing, but all still securely bound.

Some scattered foxed spotting to first and last few pages. Otherwise text is very good throughout - nice and clean with light age-toning to extremities. Occasional owner's pencil annotations.

Text in English.

xx + 559pp. 

Dimensions: Approximately 226mm high x 152mm wide x 55mm deep.

Weight: Approximately 776g.