Hudson, Massachusetts: Printed by Wood Brothers, for the Author, 1888. Original dark purplish cloth. pp x, (11)-338, [2]. Spine sunned to tan with some wear to tips; inner two inches of top rear cover have been gnawed away but not deeply; text paper lightly toned; one inch paper split to lower inner edge of front free endpaper and title leaf neatly repaired with clear archival paper tape; else a good, tight copy, text clean and unworn, no owner names. The author's crank cosmological theories. The theory "refutes certain assumptions of scientific speculation, as for example, that the luminiferous Ether is a species of Matter; that inertia, momentum, and gravity are inherent properties of Matter; that the Sun and other solar orbs move in orbits; that the orbits of planets are ellipsoidal..." - preface.; Octavo