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‎ [PÊCHE à la BALEINE] South Sea whale fishery.‎

‎London, W.J. Huggins, 1825 [circa 1840]. 402 x 504 mm, sur papier fort.‎

‎Belle et grande vue d'une scène de pêche à la baleine dans les mers du Sud. Elle a été gravée à l'aquatinte et finement coloriée à la main par Thomas Sutherland, d'après une peinture de William John Huggins, peintre de marine britannique à la cour de George IV, et peintre de marine officiel de Guillaume IV. Bien qu'elle soit datée de 1825, elle a été publiée vers 1840. L'estampe représente les navires Amelia Wilson et Castor au large de l'île de Bouro ou Buru, dans l'archipel indonésien des Moluques, et montre les diverses étapes de la pêche à la baleine, la manière dont les cachalots sont capturés, ainsi que la manière de les découper dans le navire et de faire bouillir l'huile sur le pont. Au premier plan figurent quatre canots, dont l'un est renversé par une baleine. Les matelots à bord des autres canots tentent de harponner d'autres baleines. En retrait se tient le baleinier Amelia Wilson, et dans le fond le Castor. Au loin, on aperçoit l'île de Buru. Deux légendes figurent au bas de l'estampe : à gauche, The head of a large whale in the agonies of death, ou la tête d'une grande baleine à l'agonie ; à droite, A boat destroyed by a wounded whale, ou un bateau détruit par une baleine blessée. L'estampe est dédiée par l'auteur aux propriétaires des baleiniers, les capitaines Philip Skelton, Andrew Stirton et William Nichols. Peintre de marine et portraitiste de navires, William John Huggins a été actif à Londres de 1814 jusqu'à sa mort en 1845. Son dévouement aux navires et à la mer résulte d'une première carrière au sein de l'East India Marine Company, au cours de laquelle il navigue à travers le monde, offrant ses services dans de multiples domaines. Lorsqu'il prend sa retraite de la navigation à l'âge de trente-trois ans, ses années d'observation et d'expérience lui permettent d'entamer une nouvelle carrière de peintre de marine. Il expose très rapidement à la Royal Academy. Bien qu'il n'ait jamais été accepté par les critiques d'art, il était très populaire parmi la communauté maritime, qui respectait et appréciait la précision de ses détails nautiques. Le roi Guillaume IV, surnommé Sailor King ou roi marin, nomma Huggins comme peintre de marine officiel en 1834. Huggins ajouta alors ce nouveau titre à ses plaques de cuivre existantes, comme c'est le cas pour notre estampe. Bel exemplaire. Ingalls, Whaling Prints in the Francis B. Lothrop Collection, pp. 49-50, 104.‎

‎Further Observations on the Spectra of some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to determine therefrom whether these Bodies are moving towards or from the Earth, also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II., 1868. received April ...‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1868). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 158 - Part II, pp. 529-564 and 1 lithographed plate. Clean and fine..‎

‎First appearence of this milestone paper, announcing the very first determination of the movement and velocity of a star. (Sirius). This discovery of the motion in the line of sight, the radial velocity, is of exceeding importence in astronomy, for it can be determined by shifts in the position of the spectral lines, without regard tothe distance of the star.In this paper Huggins applied to spectroscopic astronomy the principle enunciated by Doppler in 1841 that the positions of spectrum lines change as the object moves to or from the spectator. After consulting,in 1867 with James Clerk Maxwell, but wholly independent of him, Huggins presented to the Ropyal Society early in 1868, this paper with the observation on the spectrum of Sirius, from which a motion from the earth could be deduced of ab. 25 miles pr. second.""William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae"" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra"" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).‎

‎On the Spectra of some of the Fixed Stars. Received April 28, - Read May 26, 1864. (+ Supplement:) On the Spectra of some of the Nebulae. A Supplement to the Paper ""On the Spectra of some of the Fixed Stars."" Received September 8, 1864, and printed i...‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1864). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 154 - Part II, pp. 413-435 a. pp. 437-444 and 2 lithographed plates.(1 plate showing the spectroscope which could be attached to his eight-innch telescope invented by Huggin's and Miller, the start of stellar spectroscopi, the other plate showing the obtained spectra of the nebulæ Aldebaran and Orionis).‎

‎First printing of a historical paper in spectroscopy and cosmology in which the authors shows, by analysing the spectrae of nebulae, of stars, of planets, of comets, and of the sun, that they are all built of the same elements as the earth. Thus was ""laid to rest the twenty-one-century notion of Aristotle's that the heavens were composed of a unique substance not found on the earth.""(Asimov). They also shows that there is a considerable diversity of chemical composition among the stars.In this paper Huggins also describes his discovery, by spectroscopy, that a number of nebulae are luminous gas clouds.""William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae"" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra"" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).‎

‎On the Spectra of some of the Chemical Elements. Received November 5, - Read December 10, 1863.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1864). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 154 - Part II, pp. 139-160 and 2 large folded engraved plates.‎

‎First appearance of Huggin's series of spectra done with his new spectroscope made of six prism of heavy glass as a preliminary investigation to the work with the spectroscopy of the stars with the star-spectroscope, as it was necessary to have convenient maps of the spectra of terrestrial elements. Huggins devoted a large part of 1863 to the making of 24 such maps with a train of six prismes. These maps were published in the paper offered.""William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae"" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra"" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).‎

‎Further Observations on the Spectra of some of the Nebulae, with a Mode of determining the Brightness of these Bodies.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 156 - Part I, pp. 381-397.‎

‎First appearance of a pioneer paper in astronomy in which Huggings relates spectra to brightness of stars and nebulae. ""In my former papers, ""On the Spectra of some of the Nebulae"", and ""On the Spectrum of the Great Nebula in Orion"", I described the results of a prismatic examination of the light of some of the objects in the heavens which have been classed together under the common denomination of Nebulae. The present paper contains the results of the application of the same method of research, with the same apparatus, to the light of others of the same class of bodies. To these observations with the prism are appended the results of an attempt to determine the intrinsic intensity of the light emitted by some of the nebulae which give a spectrum indicating gaseity."" (Huggins in Introduction).""William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae"" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra"" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).‎

‎On the Photographic Spectra of Stars. Received december 11, - Read December 18, 1879.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 669-690 a. 1 large folded plate.‎

‎First printing of a pioneer work in the photography of star spectra.""William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae"" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra"" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).‎

‎Analyse spectrale des corps célestes‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars 1866 59pp.illustré de 17 figures en n/bl dans le texte, 19cm., br.orig., qqs.rousseurs, bon état, rare, W87433‎