The Celebrated "Moon Story"

Title: The celebrated "moon story" its origin and incidents: with a memoir of the author and an appendix, containing, I. An authentic description of the moon: II. A new theory of the lunar surface in relation to that of the earth.Author: Richard Adams LockePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04751100CollectionID: CTRG04-B334PublicationDate: 18520101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: A series of articles by Richard Adams Locke originally published in the New York sun, August, 1835, under the title "Great astronomical discoveries," which purported to be an account of the discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope and which pretended to be reprinted from a supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of science (then defunct). Has been ascribed on insufficent evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Date of publication on cover: 1853.Collation: 143 p.; 17 cm