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Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D.
 [4079] (ASTRONOMY - COMETS) Lynn Thorndike.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1950). 8vo, 275 pages. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good condition with a very good dust jacket, in protective wrapper. A nice clean copy of this work on medieval astronomers. $25
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The Rittenhouse Orrery: Princeton's Eighteenth-Century Planetarium, 1767 - 1954.
[4071] (ASTRONOMY - DAVID RITTENHOUSE) Howard C. Rice.
Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1954. Octavo, 88 pages. First Edition. Hardbound, without dust jacket, if every issued. Illustrated. In near fine condition. Small owner's name inside. The Newtonian system, Orreries in England and America, The Rittenhouse Orrery, The Princeton Orrery, David Rittenhouse. $35
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Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle.
[4107] (ASTRONOMY - GREEKS) D.R. Dicks.
London: Thames & Hudson, (1970). 8vo, 272 pages. First U.K. Edition. Binding is cloth, hardbound. Near fine copy in a like dust jacket. $20
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Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley. Preceded by an Unpublished Memoir of His Life by One of His Contemporaries and the Eloge by D'Ortous de Mairan.
[4151] (ASTRONOMY - HALLEY) Eugene Fairfield MacPike .
: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1932. 8vo, xiv, 300 pages. First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth binding, without dust jacket. Illustrated. Spine slightly sunned, mild tanning to endpapers, small owner's name inside; a very good clean copy. DSB VI: 72. $150
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 A Source Book in Astronomy.
[142227] (ASTRONOMY - HARVARD) Harlow Shapley.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1929. Octavo, xvi, 412 pages. First Edition. Publisher’s original cloth. Small recent owner’s name inside. About fine condition; an exceptional copy, and seldom found, thus. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper to Henrietta Crosby. [OFFERED WITH] Autograph Letter Signed, on Harvard College Observatory letterhead, laid in, likewise presented to Crosby. A witty, charming letter, approximately one hundred words. In part: “I collaborated last winter with Galileo, Copernicus, and others to produce a fund of the planets’ best guesses concerning itself and others. I send you the result. It is I trust an indication of my appreciation of your interest in the problem of astronomy and of Harvard Observatory in particular....” Harlow Shapley , American astronomer, 1885-1972) was famous for his debate with Lick Observatory astronomer Heber D. Curtis before the National Academy of Sciences in April 1920. “This Shapley-Curtis debate subsequently achieved almost mythic proportions among astronomers, for it was a confrontation not only with respect to the size of the Milky Way, but also on the status of the spiral nebulae, which Curtis believed lay outside a relatively modest Milky Way ... Shapley pioneered methods for astronomical distance determinations that led to his discovery of the large size of our Milky Way galaxy. Later, he mapped the distribution of galaxies and was among the first to appreciate their large-scale clustering properties. As founder of the Harvard graduate school in astronomy and of their influential summer school in astronomy, he strongly molded pre-World War II astronomical education, and in the postwar era he also helped in the formation of the National Science Foundation.” - ANB] $650
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 Kepler's Somnium. The Dream or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy.
[4091] (ASTRONOMY - KEPLER) Edward Rosen, [translator].
Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1967. Octavo, 255 pages. First Edition, thus. Publisher's cloth, a near fine copy in a lightly-rubbed and price-clipped very good dust jacket. Illustrated. $35
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The Herschel Chronicle. The Life-Story of William Herschel and His Sister Caroline Herschel.
[4159] (ASTRONOMY - WILLIAM HERSCHEL) Constance A. Lubbock .
London: Cambridge at the University Press, 1933. Large octavo, x, 388 pages. First Edition. Hardbound in blue cloth, without dust jacket. Binding with mild and general soiling, small owner's name to endpaper; a very good copy. DSB VI: 336 - “The other basic source for the historian is [this book] which includes many letters and private papers...” $150
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich. Its History and Work. (Offered with: Royal Observatory ephemera)
[142286] (ASTRONOMY) E. Walter Maunder.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1900. Octavo, 320 pages. First Edition. Publisher’s gilt decorated cloth. All edges gilt. Illustrated. A faint scratch line to upper cover, light shelf wear, mild offsetting to endpapers, recent owner’s name inside. A very good copy in a bright clean binding. Includes a post card dated 1934 and an invitation card dated 1939, for the Annual Visitation of the Royal Observatory, addressed to Captain E. W. Barlow. $200
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 The Controversy on the Comets of 1618: Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler.
[4111] (ASTRONOMY) Stillman Drake & C. D. O'Malley.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1960). 8vo, 380 pages. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good condition with a very good dust jacket. A nice clean copy; a small owner's name inside. Translated by Stillman Drake and C. D. O'Malley. $35
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Life and Work of Sir Norman Lockyer.
[5049] (ASTRONOMY) Thomazine Mary Lockyer; Winifred Lucas Lockyer; Herbert Dingle.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. Octavo, xii, 474, [2, ads] pages. First Edition. Hardbound in publisher’s original maroon cloth, without dust jacket. Very good condition. Owner's name inside. Illustrated. $85
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