30th Apr, 2025 10:00
Cameras & Scientific Instruments
Bigelow, Frank H. Balloon Ascensions, Cordoba - Argentina 1911 1913, Europe and United States
Bigelow, Frank H. Balloon Ascensions. Cordoba - Argentina 1911 1913. Europe and United States.
1906-1911.
Perfect bound (352 x 215 mm). 196 page manuscript in black and red ink and pencil, rectos only. Leaves numbered in blue crayon, Contemporary quarter black skiver, black pebble-grain cloth, titles
to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, graph paper leaves. Spine professionally reattached to text block, binding rubbed and worn, particularly along the spine, endpapers and blanks tanned, contents a little toned, a few contemporary ink blotches. Very good condition.
A substantial, 196-page manuscript of measurements obtained during meterological balloon flights in South America, Europe, Africa, and the United States between 1906 and 1911 (the title gives a date range of 1911-1913, but there do not seem to be any entries after 1911).
The compiler of this manuscript, meteorologist and astronomer Frank H. Bigelow (1851-1924), grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and was educated at the Episcopal Theological School in nearby Cambridge. During the 1870s and 80s he served two stints as assistant astronomer at the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba, where many of these measurements were made, and also worked as a professor of mathematics at Racine College, as assistant in the National Almanac Office in Washington D. C., and as a professor of meteorology at the National Weather Bureau.
Bigelow, Frank H. Balloon Ascensions. Cordoba - Argentina 1911 1913. Europe and United States.
1906-1911.
Perfect bound (352 x 215 mm). 196 page manuscript in black and red ink and pencil, rectos only. Leaves numbered in blue crayon, Contemporary quarter black skiver, black pebble-grain cloth, titles
to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, graph paper leaves. Spine professionally reattached to text block, binding rubbed and worn, particularly along the spine, endpapers and blanks tanned, contents a little toned, a few contemporary ink blotches. Very good condition.
A substantial, 196-page manuscript of measurements obtained during meterological balloon flights in South America, Europe, Africa, and the United States between 1906 and 1911 (the title gives a date range of 1911-1913, but there do not seem to be any entries after 1911).
The compiler of this manuscript, meteorologist and astronomer Frank H. Bigelow (1851-1924), grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and was educated at the Episcopal Theological School in nearby Cambridge. During the 1870s and 80s he served two stints as assistant astronomer at the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba, where many of these measurements were made, and also worked as a professor of mathematics at Racine College, as assistant in the National Almanac Office in Washington D. C., and as a professor of meteorology at the National Weather Bureau.
Auction: Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025
