1818 Luminous Phenomenon. S. Koenig / Frederick Christian Lewis. Plate XVIII appearing opposite page 203 of Bernard O'Reilly's "Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817. With charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot".

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Luminous Phenomenon. S. Koenig del. F. C. Lewis sculpt. [Frederick Christian Lewis]. Plate XVIII appearing opposite page 203 of Bernard O'Reilly's "Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817. With charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot". (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818). Sheet measures 21 x 29cm. Few foxing spot. Light creasing to corners. Wear to bottom and right edge. Small piece missing top left corner. Distinctively focused on unrecorded "phenomena of atmosphere, new to men of science" (iv), O'Reilly, in the image above, presents an unusual luminescent event that he reportedly experienced passing through Baffin Bay at midnight on July 6; "A milky stratus encircled the horizon, and in the point of wind a beautiful exhibition of cirrocumulus occurred, the patches being edged with a rich tinting of sun-light, which contrasted with good effect to the purplish-brown swell at the centre? at first a continuous stream of white issuing from an irregular coronal ring, apparently touching the cloud: from this ring a mazy spire descending held communication with the cloud: from the point in which the sun was sweeping his lowest arch, other radiations, shorter and more sharp, came in response to the former, to which succeeded a gradual but uninterrupted change of the radiations from the cloud into a reticulated form with recurved points? (187-188). Quite unlike the images of landscape and local peoples that otherwise populate most of the volume, this peculiar illustration depicts O'Reilly himself, disregarding all but the experience of this spectral encounter. ~~~ As it is sometimes difficult to properly judge the look and condition of an item from the description and photos alone, please feel free to bid knowing that you can return the item post free if you are not entirely pleased with your purchase. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions. Combined shipping available at cost. Welsh Bridge Books & Collectables is a bricks and mortar shop located alongside the River Severn at Shrewsbury, in a beautiful 16th Century building housing three floors of interesting and eclectic books and collectables for sale. If you're in Shropshire please pop by and say hello! Thank you. N° de ref. del artículo 001001

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