Bhatnagar, Arvind and Livingston, William.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SOLAR ASTRONOMY.

World Scientific, Singapore, 2005. [xx] + 445pp. + [iii]. Numerous figures with many from photos. Good in white lettered original coloured pictorial boards.
¶ World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Vol. 6.

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Book number: 281156

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Cullen, Christopher.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF CELESTIAL RECKONING. Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems.

Routledge, 2017. 1st Ed. [xii] + 434pp. 5 figures, 39 tables. Very good in white lettered dark blue red and white dec. boards.
¶ Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World.

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Book number: 285698

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Grant, Robert.

HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY, From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Comprehending a detailed account of the establishment of the Theory of Gravitation by Newton, and its Development by his Successors; with an Exposition of the Progress of Research on all the other subjects of Celestial Physics.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. 1st Ed. xx + 637pp. + [i] additions & corrections. Occasional marginal pencil markings, some sporadic light browning, t.p. and p.iii spotted and lightly browned, from the library of Jack Meadows, bookplate, hinges cracked and sl. shaken, gilt lettered cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped, sm. split at head of lower joint.

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Book number: 267761

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Harris, Joseph.

THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE GLOBES, AND THE ORRERY. To which is prefix’d, by Way of Introduction, a Brief Account of the Solar System.

London: Printed for B. Cole ..., 1751. 7th Ed. viii + 190pp. + [ii] publ. advert. leaf. 7 folding plates. With the signature of Rob. Wetherell, some sporadic light browning and spotting throughout, e.ps. lightly spotted and sl. browned to edges, couple of corners sl. creased, 15 cm circular light brown stain to fore edge of p.95-100 not affecting text, hinges and joints cracked but boards firm, contemporary specked sheep scuffed to edges, corners worn, joints sl. chipped, gilt ruled raised bands and gilt motifs to spine worn at head, lacking leather title label to spine.
¶ ESTC T113353. Joseph Harris 1704-1764, Assay master of the mint. On his monument in Talgarth church it is said that ‘he invented many mathematical instruments.’

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Book number: 287855

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Huggins, M. William.

ANALYSE SPECTRALE DES CORPS CÉLESTRES. Traduit de l’Anglais par M. l’Abbé Moigno.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars ..., 1866. 1st French Ed. Thin sm. 8vo. 59pp. 17 figures. French text. Some light browning, institutional ink stamp to t.p., chipped wrapps., crudely rebacked in tape.

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Book number: 239696

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Moore, Francis.

VOX STELLARUM: Or, a Loyal Almanack for the Year of Human Redemption 1793. Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Returns, the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars, and other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon’s Age and a Tide Table ... With farther Observations on the Weather, Rain &c. and on the new-discovered Planet.

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers ..., 1793. 1st Ed. 12mo. 48pp. Rubric t.p. with ink stamp, 4 figures. Interleaved with blanks, new e.ps., rebound in modern plastic covered boards.

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Book number: 194849

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Pickering, Edward.

ELEMENTS OF PHYSICAL MANIPULATION. Part I [only].

Macmillan and Co., 1874. 1st UK Ed. xii + 225pp. 65 figures. Ex-lib. with occasional ink stamps, some light marginal browning, rebound in modern cloth with gilt lettered title label to spine.
¶ Part II published in 1876. Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919). American astronomer and physicist, who together with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars.

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Book number: 193434

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(Smyth). Brück, H.A. and M.T.

THE PERIPATETIC ASTRONOMER. The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth.

Adam Hilger, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1988. 1st Ed. xii + 274pp. Port. frontis., many ills. Ex.-libris Ann Savours Shirley with inscription, very good in d/w.

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Book number: 281199

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Sparrow, Giles.

COSMOS. Foreword by Dava Sobel.

Quercuseye, New York, 2013. Reprint. Folio. 224pp. Profusely illus. throughout in colour. Very good in original silver lettered black cloth, in sparkly black slipcase lettered in silver, enclosed in coloured pictorial card presentation box with plastic carrying handle.
¶ ‘This Deluxe slipcased edition contains over 450 of the most spectacular and up to date space images ...’

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Book number: 286586

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Webster, Roderick and Marjorie with Pingree, David.

WESTERN ASTROLABES [With] EASTERN ASTROLABES. Edited by Bruce Chandler. With an Introduction by Sara Schechner Genuth.

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, 1998-2009. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 4to. [xiv] + 179pp. + [iii] + [xxii] + 268pp. Profusely illus. throughout, mainly from photos. Good in d/ws. sl. faded at head of spines.
¶ Historica Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.

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Book number: 288078

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Wolfe, Tom.

THE RIGHT STUFF.

Folio Society, 2009. [xviii] + 315pp. + [iii]. 46 colour and b/w. ills. from photos. Very good in original silver and orange lettered dec. blue cloth, in silver slipcase as issued.
¶ Astronomy.

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Book number: 288314

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