THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ESSAY "ON JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES" BY THE FIRST FEMALE ASTRONOMER IN THE U.S.A. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. The contemporary brown calf and marbled boards are detached but present and the spine has perished and is thus lacking. The text block is intact and tight. [978] pages in all with the pagination as follows: Volume I: pages [i]-viii & 1-484; and Volume II: pages [i]-viii & 1-480. Pages 327/328 are skipped in numbering as published, which collates with the copy at the Peter H. Raven Library at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The volume is... View More...
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN ASTRONOMER WILLIAM HARKNESS, SIGNED BY HIM - Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Three-quarter black leather & marbled boards, titled in gilt with raised bands on the spine. The covers are rubbed and the leather is scuffed. The rear cover is detached. 279 pages, illustrated with textual diagrams. There is offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns with minor chipping to the edges of the endpapers. The edges of the title page are darkened and the pages are toned. A complete copy of the rare first edition well worth rebinding. First edition. ... View More...
Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag (1995).. (1995).. Very good. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a light score mark to its rear panel. xv, [i] & 282 pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Dust jacket present. View More...
Jaipur, India: Delta Publications. . Fine. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 39 & [1] pages. Profuse color illustrations with a few diagrams in black & white. Near fine. Illustrated history of the astronomical observatory at Jaipur, India, including a brief life of its founder Sawai Jai Singh, eighteenth-century king, soldier and scientist. View More...
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