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Catalogue XI – Astronomy and related subjects– December 2016 [001] [Observatory]. Dedication of the New Allegheny Observatory - August 28th, 1912. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Co., 1913. First Edition. 4to. Quarter Roan and Cloth. Pamphlet. With T.L.S. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). 39pp, [1], slightly later quarter roan and cloth, with original covers bound in, title in gilt to spine, t.e.g. Spine ends worn, previous owner's bookplate (Hew Morrison) to front pastedown, with some evidence of something else having been removed (possibly the letter mentioned below?). Presentation copy from John Brashear to Dr Hew Morrison with note to head of original upper cover, also included is a two page T.L.S. (with some loss to head) from Brashear to Morrison (dated April 5, 1913), initially on astronomical matters and then he also talks about Andrew Carnegie with whom he had recently spent some time. John Brashear was a maker of astrophysical instruments, see DSB II:423- 424. Dr Hew Morrison was Carnegie's Scottish representative [001671] £95.00

[002] [Telescopes]. The McDonald Telescope - Commemorating the Dedication and the Formal Opening of the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas. Cleveland: The Warner and Swasey Company, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. 55pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. DJ slightly dulled to spine, tear to head of upper panel of DJ, slightly chipped to corners, pages lightly browned, internally clean [001583] £30.00

[003] Aaserud, Finn. Redirecting Science - Niels Bohr, Philanthropy and the Rise of Nuclear Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521353661. xiii, [1], 356pp, original cloth in DJ. Very light dust staining to top edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001648] £20.00

[004] Abt, Helmut A. (Ed). The Astrophysical Journal - American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue - Selected Fundamental Papers Published This Century in the Astronomical Journal and the Astrophysical Journal. The American Astronomical Society, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as issued). ix, [1], 1283pp, [1], original buckram, title in gilt to spine, title, editor and publisher in gilt to upper cover. Bump to head of spine, otherwise bright and clean [001777] £30.00 [005] Agar, Jon. Science and Spectacle - The Work of Jodrell Bank in Post-War British Culture. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as issued). ISBN: 9057022583. xx, [2], 260pp, original printed boards. Minor bump to top edge of boards, otherwise bright and clean [001458] £35.00

[006] Airy, Wilfrid (Ed). Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. xii, 414pp, original cloth, title and publisher in gilt to spine. Slightly chipped to spine ends, corners bumped, pages lightly browned. Mounted steel engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. For Airy see DSB I:85-87[001434] £100.00

[007] Albers, Henry (Ed). Maria Mitchell - A Life in Journals and Letters. New York: College Avenue Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1883551897. xiii, 370pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001558] £15.00

[008] Albers, Henry (Ed). Maria Mitchell - A Life in Journals and Letters. New York: College Avenue Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1883551897. xiii, 370pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001566] £15.00

[009] Alexander, A.F. O'D. The Planet Saturn - A History of Observation, Theory and Discovery. London: Faber and Faber, 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. 474pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, internally quite bright and clean [001739] £15.00

[010] Alpher, Ralph A. And Herman, Robert. Genesis of the Big Bang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0195111826. viii, [2], 214pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001664] £15.00

[011] Alvarez, Luis W. Alvarez - Adventures of a Physicist. New York: Basic Books, 1987. First Edition (US). 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0465001157. xii, 292pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, hint of yellowing to extremities, but otherwise fairly bright and clean. Alvarez received the Nobel prize for physics in 1968 [001441] £25.00 [012] Andrewes, William J.H. (Ed). The Quest for Longitude. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Harvard University, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0964432900. [8], 437pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean. The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 [001613] £30.00

[013] Arp, Halton. Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies. Berkeley: Interstellar Media, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0941325008. [8], 198pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001515] £20.00

[014] Ashbrook, Joseph. The Astronomical Scrapbook - Skywatchers, Pioneers and Seekers in Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 0521300452. xii, 468pp, original cloth in DJ. Small stain to foot of spine otherwise bright and clean [001684] £10.00

[015] Attis, David (Ed); Mollan, Charles (Associate Editor). Science and Irish Culture - Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland. Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society, 2004. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0860270475. xvii, [1], 174pp, original buckram in DJ. Top corners lightly bumped, otherwise bright and clean [001549] £15.00

[016] Auger, Pierre. What are Cosmic Rays?. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. 128pp, vii, [1], twenty-two photographic plates, original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to head of spine and corners, slightly rubbed, price clipped, internally quite bright and clean [001744] £12.00

[017] Baggott, Jim. Atomic - The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb: 1939-49. London: Icon Books, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9781848310445. xiv, 576pp, original buckram in DJ. Hint of foxing to top edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001782] £14.00

[018] Bagnall, Philip M. The Meteorite and Tektite Collectors Handbook - A Practical Guide to Their Acquisition, Preservation and Display. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, 1991. Reprint. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as issued). ISBN: 094339631X. x, 160pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001497] £15.00

[019] Baldwin, Ralph B. The Measure of the Moon. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. xix, [1], 488pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, especially to spine ends and corners, small chip with loss to head of joint of upper panel and flap. Light foxing to top edge of text block, internally fairly bright and clean. With folding lunar map to rear pocket [001428] £20.00

[020] Baldwin, Ralph B. The Face of the Moon. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1949. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. xiv, 239pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise quite bright and clean. "Baldwin's most important work was in astronomy. His studies proved that the craters on the Moon were produced by the impacts of large and small asteroid-like bodies rather than volcanic in origin. Baldwin's early work culminated in his book, 'The Face of the Moon' (1949), which may properly be considered the generating force behind modern research in both terrestrial impact craters and lunar surface features" (American Astronomical Society Obituary, 2010) [001631] £60.00

[021] Batten, Alan H. Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9027726523. xxv, [1], 259pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001440] £40.00

[022] Baum, Richard. The Haunted Observatory - Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet. New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 9781591025122. 416pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001473] £15.00

[023] Baum, Richard and Sheehan, William. In Search of the Planet Vulcan - The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe. New York: Plenum Trade, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0306455676. xvi, 310pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001514] £12.00

[024] Becker, Barbara J. Unravelling Starlight - William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as issued). ISBN: 9781107002296. xix, [1], 380pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001601] £45.00

[025] Bedini, Silvio A. Thinkers and Tinkers - Early American Men of Science. Rancho Cordova, California: Landmark Enterprises, 1983. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0910845190. xix, [1], 520pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, slightly chipped to head of spine, internally bright and clean. Originally published in 1975 this is a facsimile reprint [001749] £12.00

[026] Bennett, J.A. Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland 200 Years of Armagh Observatory. Belfast: The Armagh Observatory and the Institute of Irish Studies, 1990. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good+. ISBN: 0950447811. vi, 277pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Corners very lightly bumped, otherwise bright and clean [001486] £30.00

[027] Bergquist, N.O. The Moon Puzzle - A Revived Classical Theory Correlating the Origin of the Moon with Many Problems in Natural Science. Copenhagen: Grafisk Forlag, 1954. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good+ / Fair. xiii, [1], 378pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ worn with large closed tear to upper panel with associated creasing, a few small tears and nicks, internally quite bright and clean [001695] £15.00

[028] Bertotti, B., Balbinot, R., Bergia, S. And Messina, A. (Eds). Modern Cosmology in Retrospect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521372135. xx, 426pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001545] £20.00

[029] Bhathal, Ragbir and White, Graeme. Under the Southern Cross - A Brief History of Astronomy in Australia. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0864173768. 96pp, original buckram in DJ. Slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise quite bright and clean [001683] £10.00

[030] Birks, John L. John Flamsteed - The First Astronomer Royal at Greenwich. London: Avon Books, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1860335683. [12], 165pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001509] £30.00

[031] Blaauw, A. (Ed). Co-Ordination of Galactic Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Fair. viii, 58pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to edges with small amounts of loss, lightly foxed and lightly faded. Previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise quite bright and clean [001706] £10.00

[032] Born, Max. My Life - Recollections of a Nobel Laureate. London: Taylor and Francis, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0850661749. xi, [1], 308pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ spine faded, otherwise bright and clean [001705] £15.00

[033] Bova, Ben; (Introduction, Baez, Albert V.). The Milky Way Galaxy - Man's Exploration of the Stars. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / Good. [10], 228pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to edges, spine ends and corners with small amounts of loss, slightly rubbed. Cloth slightly mottled, top corners bumped, internally fairly bright and clean [001626] £40.00

[034] Brandt, Siegmund. The Harvest of Century - Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780199544691. xiv, 500pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001603] £30.00

[035] Broughton, R. Peter. Looking Up - A History of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994. First Edition. 4to (Oblong). Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0550022083. xiv, [2], 288pp, original buckram in DJ. Very slightly rubbed, otherwise quite bright and clean [001711] £15.00 [036] Brown, Laurie M. And Hoddeson, Lillian (Eds). The Birth of Particle Physics - Based on a Fermilab Symposium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521240050. xxii, 412pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001569] £25.00

[037] Brown, Lawrie M., Dresden, Max and Hoddeson, Lillian (Eds). Pions to Quarks - Particle Physics in the 1950's - Based on a Fermilab Symposium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521309840. xxxii, 734pp, original cloth in DJ. Minor wear, but generally bright and clean [001525] £35.00

[038] Brown, Lawrie M., Pais, Abraham, Pippard, Sior Brian (Eds). Twentieth Century Physics. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0750303107. Three volumes complete - Volume One - xviii, 633pp, [155]; Volume Two - [8], 635-1278pp, [152] and Volume Three - [10], 1279-2059pp, [165], original laminated printed boards in DJ's, housed in a slipcase. Bright and clean [001624] £100.00

[039] Bruck, H.A. And Bruck, M.T. The Peripatetic Astronomer - The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 085274420X. xii, 274pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001751] £10.00

[040] Bruck, Hermann A. The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh from Its Beginnings until 1975. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0852244800. viii, 151pp, [1], original boards in DJ. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001567] £15.00

[041] Bruck, Mary. Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0521808448. x, 275pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001505] £30.00

[042] Bruck, Mary. Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9789048124725. xvii, [1], 277pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001501] £60.00

[043] Brunier, Serge and Luminet, Jean-Pierre; (Trans. Dunlop, Storm). Glorious Eclipses - Their Past Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. Folio. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521791480. 192pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001622] £15.00

[044] Buhler, W.K. Gauss - A Biographical Study. Berlin: Springer- Verlag, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0387106626. viii, 208pp, original cloth in DJ. Small dent to upper panel of DJ, slightly rubbed, internally bright and clean [001585] £12.00

[045] Bunker, Andrew J. And Van Breugel, Wil J. (Eds). The Hy- Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 1583810196. xxx, [2], 680pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 193 [001734] £15.00

[046] Burke, John G. Cosmic Debris - Meteorites in History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0520056515. x, 445pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Minor edge wear, corners bumped, generally quite bright and clean [001534] £20.00

[047] Buta, Ronald J. Corwin Jr., Harold G and Odewahn, Stephen C. The De Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780521820486. xii, 344pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001616] £60.00

[048] Buttmann, Gunther. The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel. Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0718820878. xiv, 219pp, [3], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine very slightly faded, otherwise bright and clean [001753] £10.00 [049] Byers, Nina and Williams, Gary (Eds). Out of the Shadows - Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reprint. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780521821971. xxv, [1], 471pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001523] £20.00

[050] Campbell Irons, James. Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll with Memoir of His Life and Work. London: Edward Stanford, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+. 553pp, [3], original cloth, title in gilt to spine. Slightly rubbed, a few spots of foxing to edges of text block, largely unopened at head, generally quite bright. For Croll see DSB III:470-471 [001431] £100.00

[051] Caneva, Kenneth L. Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 069108758X. xxiii, [1], 439pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001633] £20.00

[052] Cannon, Russell and Malin, David (Eds). Celebrating the AAO: Past, Present and Future. Canberra: Commonwealth Of Australia, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9781921916045. xii, 353pp, [3], original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001485] £35.00

[053] Capaccioli, M. And Corwin Jr., H.G. (Eds). Gerard and Antoinette De Vaucouleus: A Life for Astronomy. Singapore: World Scientific, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 997150636X. viii, [6], 386pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001597] £35.00

[054] Carter, Bill and Carter, Merri Sue. Simon Newcomb - America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal. St. Augustine, Florida: Mantanzas Publishing, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1591138035. xiv, 213pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001466] £10.00

[055] Celnikier, Ludwick Marian. Find a Hotter Place! - A History of Nuclear Astrophysics. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9812567305. xvii, [1], 191pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001491] £40.00

[056] Chandrasekhar, S. Radiative Transfer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / Good. xiv, 393pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly chipped to head of spine and corners, spine browned, cloth slightly mottled, rear joint slightly cracked, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Chandrasekhar (with William Fowler) won the Nobel prize for physics in 1983 [001447] £60.00

[057] Chapman, Allan. Dividing the Circle - The Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy 1500-1850. Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1990. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 013217555X. 209pp, [1], original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001439] £35.00

[058] Chapman, Allan. The Victorian Amateur Astronomer - Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0471962570. xix, [1], 428pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001529] £65.00

[059] Christianson, Gale E. In the Presence of the Creator - Isaac Newton and His Times. New York: The Free Press, 1984. Reprint. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0029051908. xv, [1], 623pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Hint of foxing to top edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001540] £12.00

[060] Christianson, John Robert. On Tycho's Island - Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 052165081X. xii, 451pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001595] £20.00

[061] Clark, Stuart. The Sun Kings - The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 9780691126609. xii, 211pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001484] £10.00 [062] Clayton, Donald D. Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. xi, [1], 612pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed and chipped to edges with a few small nicks and tears. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise internally quite bright and clean [001482] £15.00

[063] Cline, Barbara Lovett. The Questioners - Physicists and the Quantum Theory. ill. Giusti. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Association Copy. Good / Fair. vii, [3], 274pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to head of spine with some loss, tear to foot of spine, slightly chipped to corners. Book slightly cocked, internally clean. Previous owner's name 'Pais' (presumably Abraham Pais), to ffep, with some notes in the same hand to rear free endpaper [001771] £20.00

[064] Clube, Victor and Napier, Bill. The Cosmic Serpent - A Catastrophist View of Earth History. London: Faber and Faber, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 057111816X. 299pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Hint of dust staining to top edge of text block, otherwise quite bright and clean [001757] £15.00

[065] Consolmagno, Brother Guy. Brother Astronomer - Adventures of a Vatican Scientist. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 007135428X. vi, 229pp, [3], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001754] £12.00

[066] Contopoulos, George. Adventures in Order and Chaos - A Scientific Autobiography. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 1402030398. x, 191pp, [9], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001498] £30.00

[067] Cook, Alan. The Motion of the Moon. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0852743483. xi, [1], 222pp, original printed boards. Bright and clean [001438] £35.00

[068] Cook, Alan. Edmond Halley - Charting the Heavens and the Seas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198500319. xvi, 540pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001547] £30.00

[069] Cooper, W.A. And Walker, E.N. Getting the Measure of the Stars. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0852748302. xii, 293pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001784] £10.00

[070] Corbally, C.J., Gray, R.O. And Garrison, R.F. (Eds). The MK Process at 50 Years: A Powerful Tool for Astrophysical Insight. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0937707791. xxi, [1], 411pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 60 [001737] £20.00

[071] Couteau, Paul; Batten, Alan (Trans). Observing Visual Double Stars. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0262030772. xvi, [2], 257pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, minor creasing to foot of spine [001476] £15.00

[072] Cox, A.N., Livingston, W.C. And Matthews, M.S. (Eds). Solar Interior and Atmosphere. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0816512299. xiv, [2], 1416pp, original printed boards. Bright and clean [001708] £20.00

[073] Crelinsten, Jeffrey. Einstein's Jury - The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780691123103. xxix, [1], 397pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001661] £15.00

[074] Dahl, Per F. Flash of the Cathode Rays - A History of JJ Thomson's Electron. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0750304537. xvii, [1], 526pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001448] £20.00 [075] Danielson, Dennis Richard (Ed). The Book of the Cosmos - Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0738202479. xxxiii, [1], 556pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001665] £12.00

[076] Davies, P.C.W. The Search for Gravity Waves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0521231973. [8], 144pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, otherwise quite bright and clean [001701] £10.00

[077] De Broglie, Louis; (Trans. Johnston, W.H.). Matter and Light - The New Physics. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. 300pp, [4], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine browned, slightly chipped to spine ends and corners, previous owner's name to ffep, pages lightly browned otherwise internally clean [001743] £15.00

[078] DeGroot, Gerard J. The Bomb - A Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0224062328. xiii, [3], 397pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001678] £10.00

[079] DeVorkin, David H. Race to the Stratosphere - Manned Scientific Ballooning in America. New York: Springer, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0387969535. xiii, [1], 406pp, original printed boards. Bright and clean [001453] £15.00

[080] Dick, Steven J. Sky and Ocean Joined - The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521815991. xiii, [1], 609pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Very minor bump to spine ends, otherwise bright and clean [001519] £125.00

[081] Dick, Steven J. The Biological Universe - The Twentieth- Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0521343267. xvi, 578pp, original cloth in DJ. Lower flap of DJ creased, light staining to head and foot of reverse of upper panel, otherwise bright and clean [001463] £20.00

[082] Dorminey, Bruce. Distant Wanderers - The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System. New York: Copernicus Books, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0387950745. xiv, 226pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001663] £10.00

[083] Douglas, A. Vibert. The Life of Arthur Stanley Eddington. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1956. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. xi, [3], 207pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, rubbed to extremities, hint of foxing to edges of text block, internally quite bright and clean [001552] £20.00

[084] Drake, Ellen Tan. Restless Genius - Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). ISBN: 0195066952. xiv, 386pp, original cloth, author, title and publisher in gilt to spine, with title, author and central device in gilt to upper cover. Small sticky patch where a price label has been removed to upper cover, otherwise bright and clean [001775] £20.00

[085] Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava. Is Anyone Out There? - The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. New York: Delacorte Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 038530532X. xv, [1], 272pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001721] £10.00

[086] Durrant C.J. The Atmosphere of the Sun. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0852743750. xiii, [1], 168pp, original laminated printed boards. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001725] £10.00

[087] Dyson, J.E. And Williams, D.A. Physics of the Interstellar Medium. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0719007976. xii, 194pp, original buckram in DJ. Corners slightly bumped, otherwise quite bright and clean. With errata slip [001474] £20.00 [088] Eddington, A.S. The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. Second Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. ix, [1], 270pp, original cloth, title, author, edition and publisher in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities and upper cover, pages lightly browned, but generally clean. A reprint of the second edition, first published in 1923 and reprinted in 1924, 1930 and this 1937 edition. See DSB IV:281 [001479] £50.00

[089] Edge, David O. And Mulkay, Michael J. Astronomy Transformed - The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket. ISBN: 0471232734. xvi, [2], 482pp, original boards. Upper corners bumped, rubbed to extremities, a few instances of pencil underlining and marginalia, but generally clean [001535] £20.00

[090] Edmondson, Frank K. AURA and Its US National Observatories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521553458. xviii, 367pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001520] £25.00

[091] Einstein, Albert. Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity - A Facsimile. New York: George Braziller, 1996. First Thus. Elephant Folio. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0807614173. 192pp, original cloth in slipcase. Bright and clean [001619] £50.00

[092] Elliot, James and Kerr, Richard. Rings - Discoveries from Galileo to Voyager. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0262050315. xi, [3], 209pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to head of spine, rubbed to corners, slightly creased to bottom edge and upper flap, otherwise quite bright and clean [001773] £10.00

[093] Evans, David S. The Eddington Enigma - A Personal Memoir. Princeton, New Jersey: David S. Evans, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0738801313. 199pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001630] £20.00

[094] Evans, David S. Under Capricorn - A History of Southern Hemisphere Astronomy. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 085274384X. x, 376pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001575] £40.00

[095] Evans, David S. And Mulholland, J. Derral. Big and Bright - A History of the McDonald Observatory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0292707592. xii, [2], 186pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001679] £15.00

[096] Evans, John W. (Ed). The Solar Corona. New York: Academic Press, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. xi, [1], 344pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly chipped to head of spine, rubbed to foot of spine, small hole to spine. Light foxing to edges of text block, internally quite bright and clean [001658] £20.00

[097] Falck-Ytter, Harald. Aurora - The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and Science. ill. Lovgren, Torbjorn. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1985. First Edition. 8vo (Oblong). Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0863150209. 167pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001607] £15.00

[098] Fauvel, John, Flood, Raymond and Wilson, Robin (Eds). Mobius and His Band - Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 019853969X. [8], 172pp, original buckram in DJ. Hint of foxing to top edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001646] £15.00

[099] Fermi, Laura. Illustrious Immigrants - The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-41. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Signed by Author. Good+ / Good+. xi, [1], 440pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly chipped to extremities, spine very slightly faded, some light dust staining to top edge of text block, fore edge of text block slightly soiled, internally quite bright and clean. Signed by the author to ffep [001563] £15.00

[100] Field, George B. And Cameron, A.G.W. (Eds). The Dusty Universe. New York: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory By Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good+ / Fair. ISBN: 0882020331. x, 323pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to edges with some loss, rubbed. Very light foxing to edges of text block, internally quite bright and clean. The Proceedings of a Symposium Honoring Fred Lawrence Whipple on his retirement as Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory October 17-19, 1973 [001634] £20.00

[101] Florence, Ronald. The Perfect Machine - Building the Palomar Telescope. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0060182059. x, 451pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001592] £20.00

[102] Forbes, Eric G.; Meadows, A.J.; Howse, Derek. Greenwich Observatory. London: Taylor and Francis, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0850660955. Three volumes complete - Volume One - Origins and Early History (1675- 1835), xv, [1], 204pp; Volume Two - Recent History (1836-1975), xi, [1], 135pp, [1] and Volume Three - The Buildings and Instruments, xix, [1], 178pp. Original gilt decorated cloth in glassine DJ's and housed in a slipcase, top edge stained blue. Slipcase bumped, paper flaw to a couple of pages in volume three, otherwise bright and clean [001625] £75.00

[103] Forbes, George (Collected and Arranged by). David Gill - Man and Astronomer - Memories of Sir David Gill, K.C.B., H.M. Astronomer (1879-1907) at the Cape of Good Hope. London: John Murray, 1916. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Presentation Copy from Author. Good / No Jacket. xi, [1], 418pp, [2], original cloth, title author and publisher in gilt to spine, circle and star device to centre of upper cover. Spine faded, two tears to head of cloth with small associated amount of chipping, slightly rubbed. Internally pages lightly browned but generally fairly bright and clean. Presentation copy from the author, with note to ffep, 'To Mabel Dudley in remembrance of the help in writing the book given by her. From the author' and a 'With the Author's Compliments' slip laid in. Gill was "one of the foremost practical astronomers of his generation" (See DSB V:403-406) [001530] £100.00

[104] Fowler, William A. Nuclear Astrophysics. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. xv, [3], 109pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001643] £10.00

[105] Frankel, Charles. The End of the Dinosaurs - Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0521474477. xii, 223pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001656] £20.00

[106] Fraser, Gordon. The Quantum Exodus - Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb and the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780199592159. viii, 267pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001649] £12.00

[107] Friedlander, Michael W. A Thin Cosmic Rain - Particles from Outer Space. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0674002881. [10], 241pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. DJ very slightly creased to top edge, otherwise bright and clean. Previously issued as 'Cosmic Rays' in 1989 and here revised and updated [001632] £10.00

[108] Friedman, Robert Marc. Appropriating the Weather - Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0801420628. xx, [2], 251pp, [3], original cloth in DJ. Lower panel of DJ slightly rubbed with a small spot of soiling, otherwise bright and clean [001692] £12.00

[109] Gade, John Allyne. The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / Fair. xii, 209pp, [3], original cloth in DJ. DJ browned chipped to spine ends with some loss, old sellotape 'repair' to reverse, small chips to edges and corners. Cloth lightly foxed, internally fairly bright and clean [001690] £15.00

[110] Gamow, G. And Critchfield, C.L. Theory of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Energy-Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949. Third Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. vi, [2], 344pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine browned, chipped to spine ends and corners, couple of small tears to joints between panels and flaps. Previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. The third edition of 'Structure of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Transformations'. For Gamow see DSB V:271-273 [001650] £20.00

[111] Gehrels, Tom. On the Glassy Sea - An Astronomers Journey. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0883185989. ix, [1], 340pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001578] £10.00

[112] Genet, Russell M., Hayes, Donald S., Hall, Douglas S. and Genet, David R. Supernova 1987A: Astronomy's Explosive Enigma. Mesa, Arizona: Fairborn Press, First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0944389015. [4], ii, 211pp, [3], original laminated printed boards, no date, c.1987. Bright and clean [001687] £10.00

[113] Gillispie, Charles Coulston. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827 - A Life in Exact Science. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0691011850. xii, 322pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001452] £35.00

[114] Glass, I.S. Revolutionaries of the Cosmos - The Astro- Physicists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780198570998. xiii, [1], 317pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001538] £15.00

[115] Glass, I.S.; (Moore, Patrick, Foreword). Victorian Telescope Makers - The Lives and Letters of Thomas and Howard Grubb. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0750304545. xiii, [1], 279pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. A couple of creased pages, otherwise bright and clean [001507] £15.00

[116] Goddard, D.E. And Milne, D.K. (Eds). Parkes - Thirty Years of Radio Astronomy. Victoria, Australia: CSIRO, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0643055479. ix, [1], 162pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001516] £30.00 [117] Gold, Thomas; Mitton, Simon (Ed). Taking the Back Off the Watch - A Personal Memoir. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9783642275876. xvii, [1], 232pp, [2], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001435] £45.00

[118] Gordon, M.A. Recollections of 'Tucson Operations' - The Millimeter-Wave Observatory of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 1402032358. xvii, [1], 214pp, [8], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001499] £40.00

[119] Gough, Douglas (Ed). The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0521824486. xv, [1], 249pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001544] £20.00

[120] Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike. The End of the Certain World - The Life and Science of Max Born - The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0738206938. x, 374pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001672] £10.00

[121] Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike. The End of the Certain World - The Life and Science of Max Born - The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0738206938. x, 374pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001673] £10.00

[122] Gregory, Jane. Fred Hoyle's Universe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198507917. x, 406pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001768] £12.00

[123] Grosser, Morton. The Discovery of Neptune. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. v, [5], 172pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly browned, slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise quite bright and clean [001688] £10.00

[124] Grundmann, S. The Einstein Dossiers - Science and Politics - Einstein's Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein's FBI File. Heidelberg: Springer, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 354025661X. xix, [1], 459pp, [1]. Bright and clean [001465] £25.00

[125] Guenther, Eike W., Stecklum, Bringfried and Klose, Sylvio (Eds). Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Matter. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 1583810145. xxvii, [1], 366pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 188 [001765] £30.00

[126] Guerlac, Henry. Newton on the Continent. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0801414091. 169pp, [5], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001752] £10.00

[127] Hack, M. Modern Astrophysics - A Memorial to Otto Struve. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued?). 360pp, [2], original buckram, title and publisher in gilt to spine and upper cover. Slightly rubbed, last couple of photographic plates have two tiny nicks to fore-edge, otherwise quite bright and clean [001496] £20.00

[128] Hahn, Roger. Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827 - A Determined Scientist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0674018923. x, [2], 310pp, original cloth in DJ. Minor score to lower panel of DJ, otherwise bright and clean. For Laplace see DSB VIII:30 and DSB XV:273-403 [001427] £35.00

[129] Hanbury Brown, R. The Intensity Interferometer - Its Application to Astronomy. London: Taylor and Francis, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0850660726. xvi, 184pp, original buckram in DJ. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001553] £20.00 [130] Haramundanis, Katherine (Ed). Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - An Autobiography and Other Recollections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521257522. vi, 269pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, otherwise quite bright and clean [001436] £30.00

[131] Harman, P.M. (Ed). Wranglers and Physicists - Studies on Cambridge Physics in the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0719017564. viii, 261pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Very minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001430] £35.00

[132] Harman, Peter and Mitton, Simon (Eds). Cambridge Scientific Minds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0521781000. viii, 343pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001570] £40.00

[133] Harper, E., Parke, W.C. And Anderson, G.D. (Eds). The George Gamow Symposium. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 188673349X. [12], 157pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 129 [001736] £20.00

[134] Hearnshaw, J.B. The Measurement of Starlight - Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0521403936. xiv, 511pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001576] £40.00

[135] Hearnshaw, J.B. The Analysis of Starlight - One Hundred Years and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0521255481. xv, [1], 531pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Spine slightly faded, otherwise bright and clean [001769] £10.00

[136] Hearnshaw, John. Astronomical Spectrographs and Their History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9780521882576. xi, [1], 228pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001517] £50.00

[137] Heidarzadeh, Tofigh. A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle to Whipple. Springer, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9781402083228. xiii, [1], 275pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Small scuff to head of spine, otherwise bright and clean [001533] £50.00

[138] Heilbron, J.L. H.G.J. Moseley - The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. ISBN: 0520023757. xiii, [1], 312pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ with a couple of small nicks and chips, small light splash of ?tea to top left hand corner of upper panel, internally a previous owner's name whited out to ffep, otherwise quite bright and clean [001640] £20.00

[139] Heilbron, J.L. And Seidel, Robert W. Lawrence and His Laboratory - A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Volume I. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0520064267. xxvii, [1], 586pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001647] £15.00

[140] Heisenberg, Werner; (Trans. Pomerans, Arnold J.). Physics and Beyond - Encounters and Conversations. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0049250086. viii, 256pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly rubbed to extremities, previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise bright and clean [001677] £15.00

[141] Hendry, John (Ed). Cambridge Physics in the Thirties. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0852747616. [12], 209pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly creased to top edge, otherwise quite bright and clean [001668] £10.00

[142] Hennessey, R.A.S. Worlds Without End - The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life. Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 075241450X. 160pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001488] £10.00

[143] Hentschel, Klaus; (Trans. Hentschel, Ann M.). The Einstein Tower - An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory and Astronomy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0804728240. xiv, [4], 226pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001527] £20.00

[144] Herbig, G.H. (Ed). Spectroscopic Astrophysics - An Assessment of the Contributions of Otto Struve. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0520014103. [10], 462pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly crinkled, slightly rubbed to extremities, hint of foxing to top edge of text block, internally bright and clean [001561] £15.00

[145] Herrmann, Dieter B.; (Trans. Krisciunas, Kevin). The History of Astronomy from Herschel to Hertzsprung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521257336. x, 220pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001531] £10.00

[146] Hertzsprung-Kapteyn, Henrietta; Paul, E. Robert (Trans.). The Life and Works of J.C. Kapteyn. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0792326032. xix, [1], 92pp, original printed boards. Bright and clean [001437] £35.00

[147] Hesser, James E. (Ed). Star Clusters. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. ISBN: 9027710872. xxi, [1], 516pp, original cloth in DJ. Score to lower panel of DJ and corresponding score to lower cover, otherwise bright and clean. International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 85 [001766] £20.00

[148] Hey, J.S. The Evolution of Radio Astronomy. New York: Science History Publications, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0882020277. x, 214pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed, small tear to foot of upper panel of DJ, otherwise quite bright and clean [001676] £10.00

[149] Hirshfeld, Alan W. Parallax - The Race to Measure the Cosmos. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0716737116. xiii, [5], 314pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Minor bump to head of spine, otherwise bright and clean [001477] £10.00

[150] Hoffleit, Dorrit. Astronomy at Yale 1701-1968. New Haven: Yale University, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1878508024. xvii, [1], 230pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001612] £20.00

[151] Hoffleit, Dorrit. Misfortunes as Blessings in Disguise - The Story of My Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The American Association of Variable Star Observers, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued?). ISBN: 1878174487. xvii, [1], 176pp, original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine, title and author in gilt to upper cover. Bright and clean [001550] £45.00

[152] Hoskin, M.A. William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens. London: Oldbourne, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. 199pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, but otherwise quite bright and clean [001494] £10.00

[153] Hoskin, Michael. The Herschel Partnership as Viewed By Caroline. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0905193059. [8], 182pp, original buckram in DJ. Bottom edge of lower panel of DJ creased, otherwise bright and clean [001468] £25.00

[154] Hoskin, Michael. The Herschel Partnership as Viewed By Caroline. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0905193059. [8], 182pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001467] £30.00

[155] Hoskin, Michael (Ed). Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0905193067. [8], 147pp, [1], original laminated boards, no DJ as issued. Bright and clean. Caroline Herschel was the younger sister of William and was the first female professional astronomer. See DSB VI:322-3 [001425] £35.00

[156] Hoskin, Michael A. William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens. London: Oldbourne, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: . 199pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Hint of foxing to DJ, price clipped, otherwise bright and clean [001733] £10.00

[157] Howorth, Muriel. Pioneer Research on the Atom - Rutherford and Soddy in a Glorious Chapter of Science - The Life Story of Frederick Soddy. London: New World Publications, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Signed by Author. Good+ / Good+. 352pp, plates, original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly chipped to extremities, light stain to fore-edge of lower panel of DJ which has left slight traces of the DJ to lower board, internally quite bright and clean. Signed by the author to ffep. Soddy developed with Rutherford the disintegration theory of radioactivity and was the 1921 Nobel laureate in 1921. See DSB XII:504-509 [001433] £75.00

[158] Howse, Derek. Nevil Maskelyne - The Seaman's Astronomer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 052136261X. xiv, [2], 280pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001504] £45.00

[159] Hoyle, Fred. Home is Where the Wind Blows - Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life. Mill Valley, California: University Science Books, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 093570227X. xi, [3], 443pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001746] £12.00

[160] Hoyt, William Graves. Lowell and Mars. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. ISBN: 0816504350. xv, [1], 376pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed, with small tear to head of join between lower panel and spine. Internally 'page 177' is written in ink to the dedication page, with a marginal note also in ink to page 177, otherwise bright and clean. Lowell posited the existence of intelligent life on Mars in 1894 [001685] £20.00 [161] Hoyt, William Graves. Coon Mountain Controversies - Meteor Crater and the Development of Impact Theory. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0816509689. xii, 442pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001528] £20.00

[162] Hubble, Edwin. The Observational Approach to Cosmology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket. ix, [1], 68pp, original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Spine slightly faded, previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise quite bright and clean. For Hubble see DSB VI:528-533 [001703] £15.00

[163] Hubble, Edwin. The Nature of Science and Other Lectures. San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. viii, [2], 83pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ browned, chipped along top edge, especially to head of spine with small amounts of loss, internally quite bright and clean. A small label 'Henry E. Huntington Library - Gift of Mrs Edwin Hubble' is loosely inserted [001741] £15.00

[164] Hufbauer, Karl. Exploring the Sun - Solar Science Since Galileo. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0801840988. xv, [3], 370pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine very slightly faded, minor rubbing to top edge, otherwise bright and clean [001638] £12.00

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[168] Jarrell, Richard A. The Cold Light of Dawn: A History of Canadian Astronomy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0802026532. xi, [1], 251pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001554] £12.00

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[171] Kaplan, Robert and Kaplan, Ellen. The Art of the Infinite:The Pleasures of Mathematics. ill. Kaplan, Ellen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 019514743X. ix, [3], 324pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Top edge of DJ very slightly creased, otherwise bright and clean [001681] £10.00

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[173] Keller, Alex. The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198539045. [10], 230pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001462] £20.00

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[177] Kitchin, C.R. Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 075030345X. xi, [3], 272pp, original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001445] £25.00

[178] Knox, Kevin C. And Noakes, Richard (Eds). From Newton to Hawking - A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521663105. xxiv, [2], 486pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly rubbed to edges, otherwise bright and clean [001537] £15.00

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[182] Kragh, Helge S. Conceptions of Cosmos - From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0199209162. [8], 276pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001449] £40.00

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[184] Krauss, Lawrence M. The Fifth Essence - The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Signed by Author. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0465023754. xvii, [1], 342pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. DJ very slightly creased to top edge, otherwise bright and clean. Inscribed and signed by the author to half-title [001758] £10.00

[185] Krisciunas, Kevin. Astronomical Centers of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521302781. x, [4], 320pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001541] £12.00

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[187] Kwok, Sun. Cosmic Butterflies - The Colorful Mysteries of Planetary Nebulae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. 4to (Oblong). Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521791359. ix, [1], 179pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001617] £20.00

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[189] Lambert, David L. (Ed). Frontiers of Stellar Evolution. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0937707392. [8], iv, [4], 626pp, original laminated printed boards. Hint of foxing to top edge of text block, otherwise quite bright and clean. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Volume 20 [001764] £20.00

[190] Landsberg, Peter T. And Evans, David A. Mathematical Cosmology - An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0198511361. x, 309pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ lightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded, internally quite bright and clean. With (quite large) errata slip [001748] £10.00

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[195] Levy, David H. Shoemaker By Levy - The Man Who Made an Impact. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0691002258. xvi, 303pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001722] £10.00

[196] Levy, David H. Clyde Tombaugh - Discoverer of Planet Pluto. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0816511489. xii, [8], 211pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ with two closed tears to upper panel with associated creasing, slightly rubbed to extremities, internally quite bright and clean. For Tombaugh see Abbott's Biographical Dictionary of Scientists - Astronomers, page153 [001636] £30.00

[197] Lewis, Cherry. The Dating Game - One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0521790514. ix, [1], 253pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean. The story of Arthur Holmes [001712] £10.00

[198] Lewis, Oscar. George Davidson - Pioneer West Coast Scientist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. viii, [2], 146pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine browned, lightly browned to edges, slightly chipped to spine ends, internally clean [001719] £12.00

[199] Libby, Leona Marshall. The Uranium People. New York: Crane Russak, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0844813001. x, 341pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed, but generally quite bright and clean [001653] £20.00

[200] Lick, Rosemary; (Foreword By Dillon, Richard H.; Introduction By Shane, C.D.) The Generous Miser - The Story of James Lick of California. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. xvi, 95pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly browned, very slightly browned to edges, internally quite bright and clean [001680] £12.00

[201] Liller, William. The Cambridge Guide to Astronomical Discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521418399. xi, [1], 257pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Spine very slightly faded, otherwise bright and clean [001503] £10.00

[202] Lindley, David. Boltzmann's Atom - The Great Debate That Launched a Revolution in Physics. New York: The Free Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0684851865. xi, [1], 260pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001727] £10.00

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[204] Littmann, Mark. The Heavens on Fire - The Great Leonid Meteor Storms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521624053. x, 349pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Hint of foxing to top edge of text block, but generally bright and clean [001490] £12.00

[205] Littmann, Mark, Espenak, Fred and Willcox, Ken. Totality - Eclipses of the Sun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Third Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9780199532094. xv, [1], 341pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Very minor bump to top edge of upper board, otherwise bright and clean [001651] £20.00

[206] Lovell, Bernard. Voice of the Universe - Building the Jodrell Bank Telescope. New York: Praeger, 1987. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). ISBN: 0275926788. xxxi, [1], 300pp, [4], original cloth. Bright and clean. The revised and updated edition [001704] £15.00 [207] Lovell, Bernard. Out of the Zenith - Jodrell Bank 1957-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0192176242. [8], 255pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001714] £10.00

[208] Lovell, Bernard. The Jodrell Bank Telescopes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198581785. xvi, 292pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly crinkled and very slightly rubbed, otherwise bright and clean [001495] £10.00

[209] Lowell, Percival. Mars. No Place: History of Astronomy Reprints, 1978. Reprint. 8vo. Hardback. Limited Edition. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). viii, 228pp, original gilt decorated cloth. Bright and clean. A reprint of the 1895 original, one of a thousand copies [001667] £30.00

[210] Lubbock, Constance A. (Ed). The Herschel Chronicle - The Life-Story of William Herschel and His Sister Caroline Herschel. Bath: The William Herschel Society, 1997. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). x, [2], 388pp, original buckram, title author and original publisher to spine in gilt, H device to centre of upper cover. Minor bump to foot of spine, otherwise bright and clean. Facsimile reprint of the CUP 1933 original, issued by the William Herschel Society, a limited edition (limitation not stated), this one appears to be number 16 (ink stamp to ffep) [001756] £15.00

[211] Macrae, Norman. John Von Neumann - The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More. American Mathematical Society, 1999. First Thus. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0821820648. x, 405pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean. Originally published by Pantheon in 1992 [001644] £15.00

[212] Madore, Barry F. (Ed). Cepheids: Theory and Observations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0521300916. xii, 300pp, original laminated printed boards. A few pages with turned corners, otherwise bright and clean [001778] £15.00 [213] Malphrus, Benjamin K. The History of Radio Astronomy and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Evolution Toward Big Science. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1996. Reprint. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0894648411. v, [3], 199pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001776] £30.00

[214] Mark, Hans and Wood, Lowell (Eds). Energy in Physics, War and Peace - A Festschrift Celebrating Edward Teller's 80th Birthday. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9027727759. vi, 403pp, [1], original printed boards. Corners bumped, otherwise bright and clean [001455] £30.00

[215] Mark, Kathleen. Meteorite Craters. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0816509026. xv, [1], 288pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001720] £10.00

[216] Mark, Kathleen. Meteorite Craters. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0816509026. xv, [1], 288pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001716] £10.00

[217] Marx, S. And Pfau, W. (Trans. Lamble, P.). Astrophotography with the Schmidt Telescope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Folio. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521395496. ix, [1], 165pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001618] £25.00

[218] Masson, Flora. Robert Boyle - A Biography. London: Constable and Company, 1914. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. ix, [1], 323pp, [1], original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Top corners bumped, foxing to edges of text block, light foxing to first and last few pages, occasionally to margins but generally quite bright and clean. Largely unopened to head [001729] £10.00

[219] Mayor, Michael and Frei, Pierre-Yves; (Trans. Roukema, Boud). New Worlds in the Cosmos - The Discovery of Exoplanets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521812070. xii, 248pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001539] £15.00

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[221] McKenna-Lawlor, Susan. Whatever Shines Should be Observed [quicquid nited notandum]. Dublin: Samton Limited, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. ISBN: 189870614X. 136pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed to extremities, corners bumped. Looks at five distinguished women, four born in Ireland, who made pioneering contributions to photography, microscopy, astronomy and astrophysics [001536] £22.00

[222] Meadows, A.J. Science and Controversy - A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0262130793. ix, [1], 331pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ is price clipped and slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001556] £15.00

[223] Meinel, Aden and Meinel, Marjorie. Sunsets, Twlights and Evening Skies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0521252202. x, 163pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. DJ has a small tear to head of lower panel, otherwise bright and clean [001590] £15.00

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[226] Millar, T.J. And Williams, D.A. (Eds). Dust and Chemistry in Astronomy. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0750302712. xi, [1], 335pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001760] £15.00

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[228] Mohr, Paul. John Birmingham Esq. - Tuam and Ireland's New Star. Galway: Millbrook Nova Press, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. ISBN: 095431770X. 687pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Light score across upper panel of DJ, paper flaw to rear pastedown, otherwise bright and clean [001487] £30.00

[229] Mollan, Charles (Ed). Science and Ireland - Value for Society - Science and Irish Culture. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0860270505. xxx, 294pp, original buckram in DJ. Top corners slightly bumped, otherwise bright and clean [001548] £15.00

[230] Moore, Patrick. The Wandering Astronomer. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0750306939. 208pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001502] £25.00

[231] Moore, Patrick and Collins, Pete. The Astronomy of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 086978143X. 160pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001715] £10.00

[232] Moore, Patrick; (Foreword By Earl of Rosse). The Astronomy of Birr Castle. London: Mitchell Beazley, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 085533004X. xii, 81pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Lower panel of DJ slightly soiled, otherwise quite bright and clean [001666] £15.00

[233] Moore, Ruth. Niels Bohr - The Man and the Scientist. ill. Allen, Sue Richert. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. xvi, 436pp,vii, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, slightly chipped to head of spine, price clipped, internally bright and clean [001717] £10.00

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[235] Moyer, Albert E.. A Scientist's Voice in American Culture - Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0520076893. xviii, 301pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001562] £35.00

[236] Moyer, Albert E. A Scientist's Voice in American Culture - Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0520076893. xviii, 301pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001443] £35.00

[237] Murdin, Paul. Full Meridian of Glory - Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth. New York: Springer, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good+. ISBN: 9780387755335. xviii, 187pp, [3], original boards in DJ. Three pages with corner creases, otherwise bright and clean [001457] £15.00

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[239] Nakayama, Shigeru. A History of Japanese Astronomy - Chinese Background and Western Impact. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1969. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Very Good. xiii, [3], 329pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ is price-clipped, remainder pen stripe to bottom edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001451] £25.00

[240] Nininger, H.H. Our Stone-Pelted Planet - A Book About Meteors and Meteorites. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. xxv, [1], 237pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities with very minor chipping to corners, spine slightly browned, otherwise quite bright and clean [001424] £100.00

[241] Nininger, Harvey H.; (Introduction, Whipple, Fred L.). Find a Falling Star. New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. ISBN: 083972229X. x, [2], 254pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ price clipped, small nick to head of spine, small tear to head of lower panel, rubbed to extremities. Text very lightly browned, small light stain to fore edge of first few pages, but generally quite bright and clean [001627] £20.00

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[247] Olivier, Charles P. Meteors. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket. xix, [1], 276pp, [4], original gilt decorative cloth, t.e.g. Spine slightly dulled, previous owner's ink stamp to pastedowns and blind stamp to first few pages, pages slightly browned, but generally quite clean [001442] £35.00

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[254] Pais, Abraham. Einstein Lived Here. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198539940. xvi, [2], 282pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001726] £10.00

[255] Pais, Abraham. Inward Bound - Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0198519710. xiv, 666pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001659] £20.00

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[258] Parker, Barry. Stairway to the Stars - The Story of the World's Largest Observatory. New York: Plenum Press, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0306447630. x, 350pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001493] £12.00

[259] Paul, Erich Robert. The Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical Cosmology 1890-1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0521353637. xiv, 262pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ lower panel with a couple of light scores across width, otherwise bright and clean [001770] £12.00

[260] Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia. Stars and Clusters. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0674834402. [10], 262pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, otherwise bright and clean [001707] £10.00

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[263] Peltier, Leslie C. Starlight Nights - The Adventures of a Star- Gazer. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Fair. x, [2], 236pp, [4], original cloth in DJ. DJ's rear flap reattached with tape (almost completely), front flap creased, otherwise quite bright and clean [001582] £20.00

[264] Petrie, William. Keoeeit - The Story of the Aurora Borealis. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1963. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. xii, 134pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly chipped to spine ends, small tear to head of upper panel, otherwise quite bright and clean [001694] £15.00

[265] Philip, A.G. Davis (Ed). New York State Astronomy. Schenectady, New York: L. Davis Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0933485166. x, 184pp, original gilt decorated boards. Very minor rubbing, otherwise bright and clean [001772] £12.00 [266] Philip, A.G. Davis and Koopman, Rebecca A. (Eds). The Starry Universe - The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary. New York: L. Davis Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). ISBN: 0933485255. xv, [1], 185pp, [1], original gilt decorated boards. Bright and clean. The Proceedings of a symposium held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26-27, 2000 [001572] £40.00

[267] Philip, A.G. Davis and Upgren, Arthur R. (Eds). Star Catalogues: A Centennial Tribute to A.N. Vyssotsky. New York: L. Davis Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0933485107. v, [1], 100pp, original decorated gilt boards. Bright and clean. A meeting of IAU Commission 24, held in Baltimore, Maryland during the XX General Assembly of the IAU August 5, 1988 [001645] £25.00

[268] Philip, A.G. Davis; Van Altena, William F. And Upgren, Arthur R. (Eds). Anni Mirabiles: A Symposium Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Dorrit Hoffleit. New York: L. Davis Press, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0933485239. xiii, [1], 173pp, [1], original gilt decorated cloth. Bright and clean [001426] £40.00

[269] Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader - Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0691009198. xii, 183pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001568] £12.00

[270] Putnam, William Lowell (And Others). The Explorers of Mars Hill - A Centennial History of Lowell Observatory 1894-1994. West Kennebunk, Maine: Phoenix Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0914659693. xix, [1], 289pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001573] £10.00

[271] Robertson, Peter; (Foreword, Lovell, Sir Bernard). Beyond Southern Skies - Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521414083. xi, [1], 357pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001602] £45.00 [272] Robinson, Janet and Robinson, Mark (Eds); (Foreword By Moore, Patrick) The Stargazer of Hardwicke - The Life and Work of Thomas William Webb. Leominster: Gracewing, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0852446667. xix, [5], 259pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001669] £12.00

[273] Rolfs, Claus E. And Rodney, William S.; (Fowler, William A. Foreword by) Cauldrons in the Cosmos - Nuclear Astrophysics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0226724565. xviii, 561pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001500] £15.00

[274] Rose, Paul Lawrence. Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project - A Study in German Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0520210778. xx, 352pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001641] £15.00

[275] Rosseland, S. Theoretical Astrophysics - Atomic Theory and the Analysis of Stellar Atmospheres and Envelopes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. xix, [1], 355pp, [1], original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Spine slightly faded, very minor dust staining to top edge, generally fairly bright and clean [001480] £20.00

[276] Rubin, Vera. Bright Galaxies Dark Matters. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1563962314. xvi, 236pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001691] £15.00

[277] Sahade, J. And Wood, F.B. Interacting Binary Stars. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0080216560. xii, 186pp, original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001718] £20.00

[278] Sandage, Allan and Bedke, John. The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington with the Flintridge Foundation, 1994. First Edition. Folio (Oblong). Hardback. Good+ ISBN: 0872796671. Two volumes complete, unpaginated. Volume one with slight soiling to upper cover, lightly rubbed to lower cover, some pages a little sticky to corners, but separate easily enough, volume two still in shrink wrap [001623] £150.00

[279] Scaife, W. Garrett. From Galaxies to Turbines - Science, Technology and the Parsons Family. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0750305827. xiii, [3], 579pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001526] £40.00

[280] Schilling, Govert; (Trans. Greenberg-Slovin, Naomi). Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521800536. x, [2], 291pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001522] £12.00

[281] Schuster, Sir Arthur. Biographical Fragments. London: Macmillan and Co., 1932. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. xiii, [1], 268pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly chipped to extremities, old sellotape stain to reverse at foot of spine. Minor foxing to edges of text block, pencilled notes to ffep, otherwise internally fairly bright and clean. With eight photographic illustrations, for Schuster see DSB XII:237-239 [001510] £75.00

[282] Seymour, Percy. Cosmic Magnetism. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0852745567. x, 150pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001483] £15.00

[283] Shapley, Harlow (Ed). Climatic Change - Evidence, Causes and Effects. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. xii, [2], 318pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ browned to spine and edges, chipped to top edge, spine ends and corners with small amounts of loss, with small hole to DJ spine, internally quite bright and clean [001628] £20.00

[284] Shapley, Harlow. Sidereal Explorations. Harvard Reprint from the Rice Institute, 1931. Reprint. 8vo. Original Cloth. Offprint. Signed by Author. Good+ [4], 46-115pp, [5], original cloth with title and author to upper cover. Pages slightly browned, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Signed by Shapley to ffep [001450] £50.00

[285] Sharlin, Harold Issadore (With Sharlin, Tiby). Lord Kelvin - The Dynamic Victorian. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0271002034. xiv, 272pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to edges, otherwise quite bright and clean [001639] £20.00

[286] Sharov, Alexander S. And Novikov, Igor D.; (Trans. Kisin, Vitaly). Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521416175. xv, [1], 187pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001506] £20.00

[287] Sheehan, William. The Immortal Fire Within - The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521444896. xiv, 429pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. A couple of very small bumps to bottom edge of lower board, otherwise bright and clean [001596] £60.00

[288] Sheehan, William and O'Meara, Stephen James. Mars - The Lure of the Red Planet. New York: Prometheus Books, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 157392900X. 406pp, original boards in DJ. Bright and clean [001604] £30.00

[289] Sheehan, William P. And Dobbins, Thomas A. Epic Moon - History of Lunar Exploration in the Age of the Telescope. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0943396700. ix, [1], 363pp, [1], original laminated printed boards. Bright and clean [001508] £25.00

[290] Shklovskii, Iosif S.; (Trans. Rodman, Richard B.; Foreword, Sagan, Carl). Stars - Their Birth, Life and Death. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0716700247. xiv, 442pp, original printed boards. Rubbed to extremities, internally bright and clean [001511] £10.00

[291] Shklovsky, I.S.; (Translated By Rodman, Richard B. And Varsavsky, Carlos M.). Cosmic Radio Waves. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. xvi, [2], 444pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly browned, small tear to head, rubbed to extremities, price clipped, internally quite bright and clean [001750] £15.00

[292] Slettebak, Arne (Ed). Stellar Rotation - Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 9027701563. xvi, 355pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ slightly browned, spine browned, couple of small tears to edges, slightly rubbed, internally bright and clean [001559] £15.00

[293] Slipher, Earl C. (Hall, John S. Ed). The Photographic Story of Mars. Cambridge, Massachusetts and Flagstaff, Arizona: Sky Publishing and Northland Press, 1962. First Edition. Folio. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket. xv, [1], 168pp, original cloth. Slightly rubbed, but generally quite bright and clean. With a folding 'Mars Key Map' loosely inserted (which is slightly browned and chipped to top edge) [001620] £30.00

[294] Smart, W.M. Stellar Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. viii, 434pp, original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, light foxing to edges of text block, pages lightly browned, but clean [001481] £75.00

[295] Smith, Alice Kimball and Weiner, Charles (Eds). Robert Oppenheimer - Letters and Recollections. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0674776054. xvi, [2], 376pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. DJ price clipped, minor chipping to foot of spine, slightly creased to bottom edge and very slightly rubbed, otherwise bright and clean [001652] £15.00

[296] Smith, Robert W. The Expanding Universe - Astronomy's 'Great Debate' 1900-1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521232120. xiv, 220pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001767] £12.00 [297] Smolin, Lee. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 0297643010. viii, 231pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Light foxing to top edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean [001669] £10.00

[298] Smoluchowski, Roman, Bahcall, John N. And Matthews, Mildred S. (Eds). The Galaxy and the Solar System. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0816509824. xii, 483pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001740] £10.00

[299] Sonett, C.P., Giampapa, M.S., Matthews, M.S. (Eds). The Sun in Time. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0816512973. xiii, [1], 990pp, original printed boards. Bumped to spine ends, otherwise bright and clean [001697] £15.00

[300] Spitzer Jr., Lyman. Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0691083096. x, [2], 180pp, original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001674] £10.00

[301] Srinivasan, G. (Ed). From White Dwarfs to Black Holes - The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0226769968. xiii, [1], 240pp, original cloth in DJ. Chandrasekhar (with William Fowler) won the Nobel prize for physics in 1983 [001723] £12.00

[302] Stanley, Matthew. Practical Mystic - Religion, Science and A.S. Eddington. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9780226770970. x, [2], 313pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001660] £25.00

[303] Steinicke, Wolfgang. Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters - From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9780521192675. xi, [1], 648pp, original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001472] £75.00

[304] Stephenson, Bruce, Bolt, Marvin and Friedman, Anna Felicity. The Universe Unveiled - Instruments and Images Through History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. 4to (Oblong). Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 052179143X. 152pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001615] £15.00

[305] Stockli, Alfred and Muller, Roland; (Trans. Gordon, Ian). Fritz Zwicky - An Extraordinary Astrophysicist. Cambridge: Cambridge Scientific Publishers, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 9781904868781. x, 248pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001581] £25.00

[306] Strauss, David. Percival Lowell - The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0674002911. xi, [3], 333pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001557] £25.00

[307] Strom, Robert G. Mercury - The Elusive Planet. Cambridge: Cambridge Scientific Publishers, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521334187. xii, 197pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Ink stamped 'J' to title, otherwise bright and clean. In the Smithsonian Library of the Solar System series [001586] £10.00

[308] Sullivan III, Woodruff T. The Early Years of Radio Astronomy - Reflections Fifty Years After Jansky's Discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 052125485X. ix, [1], 421pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean [001693] £20.00

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[310] Sweetnam, George Kean. The Command of Light - Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0871692384. xxv, [1], 233pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Minor bump to head of lower board, otherwise bright and clean [001459] £20.00

[311] Tayler, R.J. (Ed). Stellar Astrophysics. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0750302003. xii, 356pp, original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001492] £15.00

[312] Tayler, R.J. (Ed). Stellar Astrophysics. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 0750302003. xii, 356pp, original laminated boards. Bright and clean [001759] £15.00

[313] Taylor, J.G. (Ed). Tributes to Paul Dirac. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0852744803. ix, [1], 123pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001702] £10.00

[314] Tebbutt, John; (Introduction By White, Graham). Astronomical Memoirs. Windsor, N.S.W.: Windsor, N.S.W., Hawkesbury Shire Council, 1986. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Limited Edition. Signed by Descendant. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 0949694096. xx, [2], 154pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, internally bright and clean. One of one hundred hardback copies, this copy being number ninety-three and signed by the great-grandson of John Tebbutt [001662] £30.00

[315] Terzian, Yervant and Bilson, Elizabeth M. (Eds). Cosmology and Astrophysics - Essays in Honor of Thomas Gold. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0801414970. 163pp, [5], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean [001713] £10.00

[316] Tirion, Wil, Rappaport, Barry and Lovi, George. Uranometria 2000.0 - Volumes I and II. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, 1988. Reprint. Folio. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 094339614X. Two volumes - Volume One - The Northern Hemisphere to -6, xlii, 259pp, [3] and Volume Two - The Southern Hemisphere to +6, ix, 215-473pp, [3]. original printed boards. Bright and clean, each with two clear acetate overlays with fine grid lines arranged by declination zones to rear pocket as called for [001621] £45.00

[317] Tobin, William. The Life and Science of Leon Foucault. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0521808553. xiv, 338pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean [001446] £75.00

[318] Tolstoy, Ivan. James Clerk Maxwell - A Biography. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 086241010X. viii, 184pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ slightly creased to head, otherwise bright and clean [001513] £15.00

[319] Tombaugh, Clyde W. And Moore, Patrick; (Foreword By Christy, Dr. James W.). Out of the Darkness - The Planet Pluto. Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good+. ISBN: 0718825004. 221pp, [1], original boards in DJ. Bump to top edge of upper board, otherwise bright and clean [001738] £12.00

[320] Tucker, Wallace H. Radiation Process in Astrophysics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / Good. ISBN: 026220021X. xi, [3], 311pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed, especially to extremities, corners bumped, internally bright and clean [001642] £15.00

[321] Turner, Gerard L'E. Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. London: Sotheby Publications, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0856671703. 320pp, original cloth in DJ. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, generally bright and clean [001614] £40.00

[322] Tyson, Neil De Grasse. The Sky is Not the Limit - Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0385488386. viii, [4], 191pp, [3], original boards in DJ. DJ very slightly rubbed, otherwise bright and clean [001689] £10.00 [323] Van Den Bergh, Sidney. Galaxy Morphology and Classification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0521623359. ix, [3], 111pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ slightly creased to top edge, otherwise bright and clean [001489] £35.00

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[325] Van Woerden, Hugo, Brouw, Willem N. And Van De Hulst, Henk C. (Eds). Oort and the Universe - A Sketch of Oort's Research and Person. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 9027711801. viii, 210pp, original printed boards. Upper top corner bumped, otherwise bright and clean. Liber Amicorum presented to Jan Hendrik Oort on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday 28 April 1980 [001732] £15.00

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