York and London: Thomas Cooke & Sons, 1921. 3rd ed., octavo, original paper-covered cloth boards, quarter cloth, original paper title label, pp 123. With original silver-gelatin photographic plate frontis, and 2 folding b&w plates. Light scuffing, previous owner's signature, very good condition. Published by Thomas Cooke the renowned scientific instrument.....
London: British Astronomical Association, 1960-1974. 1st ed., 83 octavo reports, b/w plates, b/w photos & ills., wraps, stapled, some issues staples rusted, generally good. [Please enquire as heavy set and will require extra postage) Incomplete run, 83 issues in all.
Melbourne: The Herald & Weekly Times, 1969. 4to, pp. 64, colour and b/w ills., few mottled yellow marks page edges, verso wraps browned at edges, wraps, edges lightly rubbed. Publication to celebrate the first landing on the moon.
Moscow: 1954. 8vo, pp. 176, Index, colour spectrum rear and folded chart, b/w ills., ex-library stamp ffep and title page, light foxing endpapers, page edges tanned, original cloth backed papered boards, scuffed and rubbed, library call number spine. Text in Russian.
Moscow: 1955. 8vo, pp. 200, b/w ills., page edges tanned, paper wraps, spine extremities rubbed. Text in Russian. Astronomy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 4to, pp. (x) 1283, original cloth boards, small label bottom rear, very good.
New York: St Martin's /Marek, 1984. 1st US ed., 8vo, pp. 166, orig bds., v.g., in d.j creased top edge, few tears, tape to verso. Story of the colonisation of Mars, based on scientific fact and relayed as a history.
Sydney: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. Royal 8vo, pp. xii, 101, (1 advert), b/w photos and ills., wraps, v.g. Account of Halley's comet.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937. 8vo, pp. x, 195, light foxing endpapers and edges, endpapers yellowed, stamp front free endpaper, original cloth boards, good, in d.j. spine and edges tanned, faint mark rear. Account of recent scientific discoveries including astronomical advances, the city of Troy, animal speech and astronomy and.....
London: Sigma, 1947. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, b&w frontis, b&w plates, text illus, pp x, 210. Near-fine condition.
Melbourne: Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Supply, ( 1964). 1st ed., quarto, pp.(iv), 15, b&w portrait, plates (photographs), map, plan, orig prictorial wraps. Very good condn. The Australian tracking station was built at Carnarvon, Western Australia, in 1963 for use by NASA for the Gemini program. Includes layou of the.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. 8vo, pp. 239, Index, b/w frontis, b/w plates and ills., original cloth boards, spine and top edge sunned, light speckled white marks rear top board, minor fishing bottom rear cnr. Internally clean and in very good condition. Covers surface features, meteorite craters, lunar atmosphere.....
Cook Islands: Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, 1958. 4to, pp. 27, 11 loosely inserted charts, typescript letter on letterhead signed by Bateson, loosely inserted typescript article, few pencil notations page margins, edges few charts yellowed, paper wraps, stapled spine, previous owner's isncription front, few marks.
Cook Islands: Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, 1960. 4to, pp. 24, loosely inserted charts numbers 13 to 43, paper wraps, top edge and portion rear browned, previous owner's inscription front. Booklet and charts for variables south of Declination S.30°.
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, c. 1958. Very large folding star chart, printed in red and black, astronomical information to reverse, folded In original printed envelope. Published c. 1958. Loosely inserted are a compliments slip from the College of the Sea, London, and two small book pages regarding navigation. Envelope.....
Virginia: Willmann-Bell Inc, 1991. 4to, pp. 96, b/w ills., software in rear envelope, wraps, as new.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1962. 8vo, pp. 19, cnrs lightly creased, paper wraps, stapled spine, edges yellowed, few light marks, good. Lecture delivered by Blackwell, University of Oxford, 12 June 1962.
Edinburgh: The Scottish Provident Institution, 1940. Revised by Dr J.R. Edney. Royal 8vo, pp. (16) unpaginated, 7 two-tone charts, 1 b/w plate, loosely inserted clippings, minor foxing verso boards and b/w plate, papered boards, good. Twenty-Seventh Series. Star maps over Great Britain and Ireland.
Canberra: Australian National University, 1966. 4to, pp. 49, b/w ills., typescript, wraps, lightly yellowed. Paper to be published in 'Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics' Volume IV, 1966.
Sky and Telescope, 1970. Reprint, Royal 8vo, pp. 11, b/w photos and ills., minro foxing edges, paper wraps, stapled spine, authors signed presentation copy inscribed to the 'Astronomical Society of Victoria' and signed by the author, covers foxed. Reprint from 'Sky and Telescope' Volume 38, No. 6, and Volume 39.....
Virginia: Willmann-Bell Inc, 1991. Translated from the French by Emmanuel and Barbara Davoust. 1st English language edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 321, Index, b/w plates and ills., original pictorial boards, nr fine.
London: Charles Griffin & Co, 1925. 3rd rev ed., 8vo, pp. x, 251, Index, b/w ills., pencil notes to eps and occasionally to text, occasional mark, orig cl bds., edges rubbed, stain to rear. Elementary astronomical observations for the surveyor.
Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1955. Small 4to, pp. 28, b/w frontis, b/w photos, paper wraps, previous owner's signature front top edge, rear edges sunned, torn along spine btu intact, mottled yellow marks front. Construction of the large reflector at Lick Observatory.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. 2nd edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 155, (iv adverts), pages tanned and marked, top cnr front free endpaper, prev owner's stamp and signature (Mirfield Merfield) to t.p., few stains edges, front hinge weak, original cloth boards, 5cm split to cloth at rear joint, extremities frayed, cnrs.....
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. 8vo, pp. viii, 287, Index, endpapers lightly tanned, top edge dusty, original cloth boards, edges rubbed. Covers nebulae, the nebulae hypothesis, tidal friction, protyle, and meteorites. Many of the chapters previously published as a series in 'Knowledge,' and 'Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News.'...