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Smyth, Charles Piazzi
English (b. Italy, 1819-1900)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe
BOOK TITLE: "Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds", London, Lovell Reeve Publ., 1858

1858
PUBLISHER: Reeve, Lovell
albumen print
6.0 x 7.0 cm. (each, arched top)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
95:0152:0001

INSCRIPTION: printed on the mount on top: "Photo-Stereograph 1" printed below image: "Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 Feet High, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain. Printed by A.J. Melhuish, under the superintendence of James Glaisher Esq.r F.R.S. and published by Lovell Reeve"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/96, MAP. One plate (no. 15) is missing in this copy of the book. See RB DP 302 349 56 for a complete copy.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, crater
landscape, figures in

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