Author: MOORE Patrick
Title: Survey of the Moon. NEAR FINE COPY WITH POSTCARD AND FDC SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Description: Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1963. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper laminated to book. WITH T.PC.s MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A FINE COPY OF THE OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER FROM THE OLD ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, PUBLISHED ON 18 FEBRUARY 1986 AND SIGNED BY MOORE TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN OF HALLEYS COMET. The postcard is printed for Moore's long-running (1957-2013) BBC TV series 'The Sky at Night'. THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF THIS EARLY WORK BY MOORE IS SCARCE.

Keywords: science, astronomy, moore, patrick moore, moon, lunar, bbc tv, sky at night,


See more books from our catalog: Science & Medicine0