HOWARD, Luke.

A Cycle of Eighteen Years in the Seasons of Britain; deduced from meteorological observations made at Ackworth, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, from 1824 to 1841; compared with others before made for a like period (ending with 1823) in the vicinity of London. London: James Ridgway… . 1842.

8vo, pp. 22, (2) advertisement and imprint, and 5 plates (the first coloured and bound as a frontispiece). Original dark green cloth, spine neatly repaired. Foxing on the plates at the end, otherwise a very good copy. Two presentation inscriptions on the front endpapers dated 1847 and 1897.

FIRST EDITION. Luke Howard was probably the most important English meteorologist of the nineteenth century. He defined groups of clouds and gave them their present names. His 3-volume The Climate of London (1818–20) was a classic work. The present book and his Barometrographia (1847) were “two significant scientific publications” (ODNB) and almost his last. The plates are graphs of meteorological observations. See also Sir Napier Shaw, Manual of Meteorology, I, pp. 133–134.

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