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This description if for the book "Recreations in Astronomy With Directions For Practical Experiments And Telescopic Work" by Henry White Warren, D.D.

This description will be ' loosely' written with some extra information. I haven't ever 'edited' an entry on your sight. I just subscribed.

When I entered the title and author in your system, the response was your statement-offer to 'describe' the book. I have written a description below, but before I write a description I would like to point out that there seems to be a conflict in the display results you have listed in your system. One of your entries for Chautauqua Press showed a date of publication as 1879.

It appears the Chautauqua Press published the book in 1886 and 1887.

When I searched the book in WorldCat, I found:

1879 Harper and Bros

1879 Phillips and Hunt

1879 American Book Co (this listing was present the first time I searched WC.

1880 Harper and Bros

1886 Chautauqua Press

1887 Chautauqua Press

1888 Harper and Bros

1892 Harper and Bros

1895 Harper and Bros

I believe a book seller using the internet or anyone referencing the book should write "Chautauqua Press First Edition" if they know that it is not a 'true' First Edition?

Description:

Hardcover. Book bound in a dark brown cloth with a very small pebble look to it (more below*). The front cover has a faint circle stamped just above the center of the cover. The spine shows the first three letters of the title on two lines and the author's initials, last name, plus degree - "D.D." on one line. The bottom of the spine has "Chautauqua Edition" on two lines - all gilded.

The end papers are a light beige. There are 273 illustrations in black and white - some full page, most are in the text.

There are two blank leaves. Instead of a half-title, there is an article which is actually and advertisement. This article-ad is titled "Popular Astronomy" by Simon Newcomb. L.L.D. It is three pages long. A