Teacher's Manual Explaining the Use of Chas. W. Holbrook's Lunar Tellurian

Hartford: Printed for the Author, [1888]. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy with some occasional spotting; rear cover with some discoloration to the cloth.. 8vo, 100 pp.. There are text illustrations throughout.

Holbrook manufactured and sold a globe and this lunar model. He succeeded his father Dwight in the business of manufacturing school apparatus. The tellurian described in this book was patented by Charles in 1887. Though the book describes an 8 inch globe; none are known to exist. The manual explains the motions (truncated) of the earth and moon, seasons etc.. See Rittenhouse, II, # 3, pp. 96 - 98; Rittenhouse I, # 1, pp. 3 - 6. (Inventory #: 5522)