Joseph Seiss The Gospel in the Stars or Primeval Astronomy 1882

Seiss, Joseph A., D. D. ‘The Gospel in the Stars; or, Primeval Astronomy’ E. Claxton & Company, No. 930 Market Street, Philadelphia, 1882.

Cloth (wear to extremities of spine and lower outer corners of boards; moderate wear to upper outer corners, spine hinges, and parts of bottom edges of boards). [2] + [pp. 3-12] + [1] + [pp. 15-452] + [large 12-panel fold-out pictorial map of the constellations on translucent paper]

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the 1882 true first edition.

The Reverend Joseph A. Seiss’s The Gospel in the Stars was one of a number of works of the late 19th century looking at the constellations from a religious perspective.