[Rarebooks] FS: Report by Mexican astronomers travelling in Japan in 1874. Very scarce.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Diaz Covarrubias, Francisco.     VIAJE DE LA COMISION ASTRONOMICA MEXICANA AL JAPON, Para Observar el Transito del Planteta Venus por el Disco del Sol el 8 de Diciembre de 1874. Mexico: C. Ramiro y Ponce de Leon. 1876. Lg. 4to. 448,(2)pp. With the half-title. Text with numerous wood engraved illustrations,  after photographs. Bound in half calf over marbled boards circa 1940. Very scarce.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Great detail of the visit by a small group of Mexican astronomers to Japan in 1874.

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