Joh. Nep. Krieger's Mond-Atlas, nach seinen an der Pia-Sternwarte in Triest angestellten Beobachtungen unter Zugrundelegung der hinterlassenen Zeichnungen und Skizzen.
Wien & Leipzig: E.H.Mayer, 1912.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #003123
Two parts in two volumes (text and atlas). 4to (310 x 254 mm). Text volume: xviii, 376 pp., frontispiece portrait of Krieger in heliogravure, 5 full-page photographic illustrations of which 2 with associated tissue-paper key overlay, 26 smaller photographic illustrations in text. Plate volume: [8] pp., 58 photographic plates, numbered 29 to 86, each with associated key overlay, and one folding map. Original publisher's cloth, spine and upper board lettered in red (very light spotting to boards), original green endpapers. Text and plates clean and bright, tissue-paper overlays browned as usual. An exceptionally well preserved set of this rare lunar atlas. ----
Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall 27; NDB 13, 44 - THE RARE FIRST ENLARGED EDITION. "Krieger was a gifted draftsman, but he realized that it made little sense to spend time drawing features that the camera could record. So he had the brilliant idea of starting with a low-contrast photograph as a base and adding the finer details by hand at the telescope. The resulting maps of selected craters were not equaled until the U.S. Air Force began issuing its own series of photobased lunar charts in the 1960's. Krieger published the first volume of his drawings in 1898; it contained 28 plates. Due to overwork, his health broke shortly thereafter, and he died before the contemplated second volume could be issued. His manuscripts were taken over by Rudolf König, and the remaining drawings were finally published in 1912." (Ashworth 27). This new atlas is much rarer than the original 1898 publication.
Der 2. Teil wurde posthum von R. König mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien herausgegeben. - Krieger (1865-1902), Schüler von H. Seeliger, betrieb umfassende Studien über die Oberfläche des Mondes. "Die von ihm in langjähriger unermüdlicher Nachtarbeit angefertigten ca. 1000 Zeichnungen der Mondoberfläche gehören zu den besten der damaligen Zeit und werden wegen ihrer sich auf das der Photographie überlegene Auflösungsvermögen des menschlichen Auges gründenden Feinheiten der Darstellung noch heute oft herangezogen, wenn schwierige Detailfragen geklärt werden müssen" (NDB). - Visit our website for additional images and information.
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