GUILLEMIN, Amédée "The Heavens" [Richard Bentley & Son, 1883] Popular Astronomy

GUILLEMIN, Amédée. The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy.

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883. Ninth edition, entirely new and revised. Octavo. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page plates and numerous in-text figures. Finely bound in contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt-ruled borders, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with contrasting dark green morocco label, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Gift inscription from Eton dated April 10, 1889 to front free endpaper. Occasional mild foxing; light rubbing to edges and extremities. Very Good+.