Category: Astronomy

Natural Philosophy (Eighth Treatise): Meteorology

Price: $89.58

Publisher: London and Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers : 1856

Seller ID: Books006739

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

82 pages. Stamped brown cloth with chipping to head of spine. Gilt title faded on spine. Leaves evenly tanned; a few unobtrusive stains. Hinges secure; no loose pages. One of the volumes in Chambers's Educational Course. First issued 1849; author (not credited in this volume) is the noted Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain.
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Modern Astronomy

By: Birks, Rev. T. R. [Thomas Rawson]

Price: $130.92

Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society

Seller ID: Books013910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

70 pages, with leaf of ads at rear. Leather spine; marbled paper over board. No stated date of issue. A New Edition; with author noted as "late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge". Recent bookplate to front pastedown; old library inscription to facing leaf and top right corn of same torn away. 5.6 x 3.5 inches.
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Astronomy by Observation. An Elementary Text-Book for High-Schools and Academies

By: Bowen, Eliza A.

Price: $585.70

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company : 1888

Seller ID: Books010123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

90 pages, plus maps and charts in blue. Publishers printed paper over boards; original brown cloth spine. Signature to front free endpaper; unobtrusive pencil scribble to colour frontispiece; and a few instances of thumbing. Sound binding.
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Report of the Chief Astronomer Being part V [5] of the Annual Departmental Report for the Year ending June 30, 1906

By: Canada Department of the Interior

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Ottawa, S.E. Dawson : 1907

Seller ID: Books008544

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

135 pages plus plates and fold-out. Sessional Paper No. 25a. Burgundy boards rubbed; interior clean; sound binding. 10 x 6.5 inches.
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The Story of the Stars. Simply told for general readers. [ Bishop Spencer College prize binding]

By: Chambers, George F.

Price: $199.83

Publisher: London, George Newness : 1903

Seller ID: Books013911

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

192 pages. Attractively bound by Relfe Brothers, London, with their small stamp to front endpaper verso. Endpapers and edges marbled; binding sound. Prize plate to front pastedown; 1903 awarded to Gladys Carter. Bishop Spencer College, a Church of England school for girls, was located in St. John's Newfoundland. 5.8 x 3.75 inches.
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Manual of Cloud Forms and Codes for States of the Sky. Circular S

By: Charles Sawyer, Secretary

Price: $103.36

Publisher: Washington, USA Department of Commerce : 1949

Seller ID: Books008500

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

v, 43 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Supersedes the first edition of 1938. Clean and unmarked, in original duo-tang type binding. 10.25 x 7.9 inches.
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Beyond the Sun / Au-delà du Soleil

By: de Roussan, Jacques

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Montreal, Tundra Books : 1977

Seller ID: Books014887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

28 pages. Text in French and English. The "mini-edition" of 1977, measuring 4.7 x 5.7 inches. Clean and unmarked.
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SETI Science Working Group Report

By: Frank Drake, John H. Wolfe, Charles L. Seeger eds.

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Aeronautics and Space Administration : 1983

Seller ID: Books012982

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

xix, 110, [1] pages. NASA Technical Paper 2244. October 1983 on cover. Clean and unmarked.
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Image for Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at Washington under orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, dated August 13, 1838. Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, second session of the twenty-eighth Congress, begun and held at the city of Washington, December 2, 1844. Volume X [of XI]

Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at Washington under orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, dated August 13, 1838. Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, second session of the twenty-eighth Congress, begun and held at the city of Washington, December 2, 1844. Volume X [of XI]

By: Gilliss, J. M.

Price: $620.16

Publisher: Washington, DC, Gales and Seaton : 1845

Seller ID: Books014256

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

xxviii, 648 pages, one engraved plate, and 21 folding. Bound in before this document is the overall title: Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, second session of the twenty-eighth Congress, begun and held at the city of Washington, December 2, 1844. Volume X [of XI], Containing Document No. 172. [48 page Index to the 177 documents.] Leather scuffed; boards loose; textblock sound. 9.1 x 5.75 inches.
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The Celebrated "Moon Story," Its Origins and Incidents; with a Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix ...

By: Griggs, William N.

Price: $751.08

Publisher: New York, Bunnell and Price : 1852

Seller ID: Books010064

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

143 pages. First edition thus. 6.1 x 4 inches. Black blind stamped cloth with dulled gilt to spine. Rubbing to head and foot of spine and a nick to spine an inch up from foot. Title page splitting along gutter and nearly detached. Binding is sound; contents clean. Title continues: Appendix, Containing, I. An Authentic Description of the Moon; II. A New Theory of the Lunar Surface, in Relation to That of the Earth.
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Search for the Universal Ancestors: The Origins of Life

By: Hartman, H., J.G. Lawless and P. Morrison (eds.)

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell Science Inc : 1987

Seller ID: Books007182

ISBN-13: 9780865423282

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

xiv, 142pp. previous owner's name stamp to title page, small amount of highlighting to three pages
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Meteorology Theoretical and Applied [signed]

By: Hewson, E. Wendell; Longley, Richmond W.

Price: $62.01

Publisher: New York & London, John Wiley : 1944

Seller ID: Books008548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 468 pages. Jacket is chipped along extremities and some residue from it is affixed to rear pocket in which is the Tephigram. Jacket is now housed in a removable archival sleeve. Notation on front endpaper, including Richmond Longley's inscription to his sister. Else clean and unmarked, in sound binding.
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The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition

By: Proctor, Richard

Price: $310.08

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co. : 1878

Seller ID: Books011284

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

x, [1], 314 pages; with all photos, plates, folding map, and advert leaf at rear. Soiling to cloth and textblock edges; light foxing to first few and final few leaves; offsetting from frontispiece; half-inch tear to map at fold. Binding is sound.
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Paracelsianism and Patronage in Early Modern Denmark

By: Shackelford, Jole

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press : 1991

Seller ID: Books007197

Binding: Coil bound

Condition: Good

pp. 85-109. Inscribed by the author to historian of science, Stuart Pierson, with his pencil scoring throughout.
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Image for The Chemical Experimentalist; or, An Attempt to Allure by Experiment, and Guide by Reasoning, the Enquirer After Rational Amusement and Useful Knowledge, Towards the Cultivation of that Simple and Sublime Science - Chemistry

The Chemical Experimentalist; or, An Attempt to Allure by Experiment, and Guide by Reasoning, the Enquirer After Rational Amusement and Useful Knowledge, Towards the Cultivation of that Simple and Sublime Science - Chemistry

By: Stuart, John Knox

Price: $3,445.31

Publisher: Paisley, Caldwell and Son : 1835

Seller ID: Books011891

Binding: half leather

Condition: Good

[3]-288 pages, seven plates - one folding, two copies of plate 6. Prussian blue cloth sample present on page 121. Parts 1 through 6 [Numbers 1 through 30 of the Chemical Experimentalist, and Numbers 1 through 6 of the Panoramic Dictionary, each under the running title of Stuart's Useful Information for the People]. Scarce in any condition, this copy good only though complete from page [3] through 288, with all plates [OCLC notes a Part Seventh and Eighth, not present here]. Front board detached, general title page taped to it noting Third Edition 1834, chipped and stained. Long closed tear to ...
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Image for Elements of Spherical Astronomy, Comprising the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere in the Planes of the Meridian, Horizon, Equator, Ecliptic, and the Equinoctial and Solstitial Colures,... WITH : Key to the Exercises....

Elements of Spherical Astronomy, Comprising the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere in the Planes of the Meridian, Horizon, Equator, Ecliptic, and the Equinoctial and Solstitial Colures,... WITH : Key to the Exercises....

By: Turnbull, William

Price: $585.70

Publisher: London, James Imray : 1849

Seller ID: Books012104

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xv, [1], 184; iv, 44 pages, and 54 page Imray & Son 1873 Catalogue at rear [Charts, Works on Navigation, and Nautical Instruments, &c.]. Professionally rebacked, spine replaced, endpapers repaired. Former owner's inscription and US flag to verso of front free endpaper. Two leaves a touch proud along fore-edge. Binding is sound. Title of the main work continues: 'with Tables of Formula, and Rules for Calculating the Declinations, Right Ascensions, Latitudes, Longitudes, Amplitudes, Azimuths, and Distances of the Heavenly Bodies, the Times of Their Rising, Setting, and Culminating; with Various ...
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The Right Stuff [inscribed by Alan Shepard]

By: Wolfe, Tom [Alan Shepard]

Price: $1,722.66

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux : 1987

Seller ID: Books012138

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

436 pages. Inscribed by Alan Shepard on the front free endpaper, beneath which is a promotional sticker for the September 1992 American Bankers Association Bank Card Conference, featuring Shepard. No explicit date of issue, and no price on flap: Wolfe's works facing title page list to Bonfire (1987). The "new foreword by the author" was 1983. Jacket rubbed and creased, with light discolouration to white verso. Textblock edges foxed and grimed; thumb-smudge next to Shepard's face on sticker; contents otherwise clean.
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Category: Astronomy