[Rarebooks] fs: Chickering. Cloud Crystals; a Snow-Flake Album, 1865

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[Chickering, Frances E.]. CLOUD CRYSTALS; A SNOW-FLAKE ALBUM. COLLECTED 
AND EDITED BY A LADY.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1865. Full leather, tall octavo, [iv], 
158 pages, Lithographs by J. F. Richardson. Near Fine.
          An interesting blend of scientific observation, literary 
expression, and graphic illustration on the topic of snowflakes and 
winter. Mrs. Chickering painstakingly copied these 200 snowflake forms 
from actual observation over several years and they are reproduced 
herein as white silhouettes on a dark brown printed background. The book 
opens with a scientific paper by Charles Smallwood on the subject of the 
relation of atmospheric electricity to the formation of snow crystals. 
Literary contributors include James Russell Lowell, Robert Burns, Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, Increase Mather, Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant, 
Milton, Tennyson, Gail Hamilton, and many others. Bound in leather over 
boards with all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, spine and both boards 
stamped in gilt and blind, raised bands on spine, and inside dentelles 
in gilt. Minor rubs to extremities and along joints, slight oxidation to 
a few plates, otherwise clean and tight.......    $300.00
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