![[Item #48134] An Eclipse Party in Africa: Chasing Summer Across the Equator in the U.S.S. Pensacola. Illustrated. Eben LOOMIS, enks.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48134.jpg?auto=webp&v=1585693985)
An Eclipse Party in Africa: Chasing Summer Across the Equator in the U.S.S. Pensacola. Illustrated
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's gray-gilt pictorial cloth; 216pp; photographic text illustrations (halftones). Spine ends and corners just touched; inoffensive toning to endpapers, with old offsetting from jacket flaps (jacket no longer present); overall an attractive, Near Fine copy with the pictorial elements of the binding still bright.
Account of the U.S. eclipse expedition to equatorial Africa in 1889. Loomis was a long-time staff astronomer at the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, and also the father of author and editor Mabel Loomis Todd.
Price: $250.00
