Hastings, NY: Henry Draper, 1863. Size 536 x 435 mm (21 x 17 inches) laid down on original mount (702 x 547 mm) which bears a printed label 'Photograph of the Moon, taken by Prof. Henry Draper, M.D., with a silvered glass Telescope, Fifteen and a Half Inches Aperture, Hastings... More about A very large and extremely rare early albumen silver print photograph of the Moon
![The Lunar World: its scenery, motions, etc. [Considered with a view to design.] Third Thousand....](/pictures/thumb/003108.jpg?v=1563231620)
Dublin: George Herbert, 1854. 8vo (mm). viii, 104 pp., including half-title and 7 plates. [Bound with:] GALL, James. An Easy Guide to the Constellations; with a miniature atlas of the stars. Edinburgh / London: Gall and Inglis / Houlston and Wright, [1855?]. 52 pp., 12 plates, including 25 maps and... More about The Lunar World: its scenery, motions, etc. [Considered with a view to design.] Third Thousand
St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, 1963. 1st edition, January 1963. Scale 1:2,500,000. Single map on two lithographed sheets, sheet size 1470 x 890 mm, lunar diameter 1390 mm. The sheets with a few short kinks, but generally very well preserved. ----
"The USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic (LEM) is... More about USAF lunar wall mosaic, LEM-1B. Lunar earthside hemisphere in orthographic projection
St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, 1962. 2nd edition, November 1962. Scale 1:5,000,000. Single lithographed sheet, size 34 x 35 in. (864 x 889 mm, lunar diameter 27 in). The map with a few marginal kinks, but generally well preserved. ----
"The USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic (LEM) is a.... More about USAF lunar reference mosaic, LEM-1. Lunar earthside hemisphere in orthographic projection
Ingolstadt: Eder for Elisabeth Angermaria, 1614. Disquisitiones mathematicae, de controversiis et novitatibus astronomicis quas sub praesidio Christophori Scheiner, De Societate Iesv . . . publice disputandas posvit, propvgnavit . . . Ioannes Georgius Locher ... Ingolstadt: Eder for Elisabeth Angermaria, 1614. [Bound before:] II. TANNER, Adam, praes. Astrologia Sacra: hoc... More about Disquisitiones mathematicae, de controversiis et novitatibus astronomicis quas sub praesidio...
Washington, D.C. NASA, 1968. NASA negative no. AS08-14-2383. William Anders, December 24, 1968. Size 11 x 14 inches (272 x 350 mm). Chromogenic print laid down on matt 16 x 20 inches, signed in felt-tip pen on the matt 'To: Myra and Roy - With best wishes, James Lovell, Apollo... More about Earthrise from Apollo 8
Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1982. In Russian, with additional English explanation and English and Georgian title page. Oblong folio (282 x 355 mm). 22, [4] pp., 21 color-printed maps. Publisher's original printed cloth (light rubbing of extremities, corners bumped). ----
A rare lunar atlas, being a result of a polarimetric imaging project... More about Polarimetric Atlas of the Moon
Bound in early 20th century half cloth over marbled boards with two paper labels to spine. Content list in neat contemporary hand bound at beginning. Papers: 1. GUSSEW, H. Ueber die Gestalt des Mondes. 36 pp. With the author's presentation inscription. Waterstain throughout. 2. CELORIA, G. Sull'eclissi totale di Luna... More about SAMMELBAND: 17 special prints and monographs on lunar science
Image 11-401/3.15 N00992, taken with Soviet Zond 8 spacecraft on October 24, 1970. Sheet size 300 x 400 mm. Glossy photopaper under grey photo mount. A few light creases. Provenance: British astronomer Patrick Moore. More about Mare Orientale, view from the far-side of the moon in W direction
Mosaic of four sections, approx. size 340 x 820 mm, framed under glass and photo mount. Silk photopaper. Creator B. A. Käfig(?), signed in pencil on photo mount. Near pristine condition of photograph with no visible scratches. Provenance: British astronomer Patrick Moore. ----
Shown on this Earth-based telescopic image are... More about Lunar landscape near the terminator
Image size 420 x 450 mm (with stripes of background sky attached at left and right side), all mounted on card board. Silk photopaper. Creator unknown and unsigned. Provenance: British astronomer Patrick Moore. More about Full moon
Lunar World Record Team, 2009. Sheet size 608 x 507 mm, under photo mount. Signed in the image by the members of the team. This Photographic print was presented to Sir Patrick Moore by the team members on the occasion of the Guinness Wold Records presentation event, which was hosted... More about LUNAR IMAGE: The World's largest ground-based lunar image mosaic, 4th April 2009
Washington, D.C. Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, 1960. 1 folding map, 1440 x 975 mm, image size 1275 x 940 mm. Light yellowing of paper, some paper thinness on old folds, but generally in a very good condition. ----
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Army Corps of Engineers published... More about Engineer special study of the surface of the moon - Lunar Rays
Paris: Chez Thomas Jolly & Simon Bernard, 1671. Folio (367 x 240 mm). [46], 419 [1], [30] pp., including additional engraved title by G. Eddelinck after le Pautre, 57 engraved plates (including 6 folding), 2 engraved illustrations in text, dedication with engraved headpiece incorporating the arms of Colbert, woodcut head-... More about La dioptrique oculaire, ou la théorique, la positive, et la mechanique, de l'oculaire dioptrique...
Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussen, 1645. Two parts in one volume. Folio (303 x 205 mm). [52], 356, [4, blank] pp., 10 engraved plates by Arnold Loemans including a lunar map; [16], 279 [1], [28, index] pp. Each part with separate title-page, first title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, woodcut... More about Oculus Enoch et Eliae, sive radius sidereomysticus pars prima . . . Opus philosophis, astronomis,...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. 8vo (235 x 154 mm). xiii, 434 pp. With 29 pages of black and white photograps. Publisher's black cloth over boards (lightly rubbed on the spine ends and corners with mild soiling to the rear board), blindstamped title on front board, gilt title on... More about First on the Moon. A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Written...
Geneva: Henricum-Albertum Gosse, 1747. 4to (260 x 205 mm). viii, 581 [1] pp. Including 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with two gilt lettered labels and rich floral gilt decoration, red-dyed edges, and marbled endpapers. ----
Graesse VII 469. Final edition. Volume III of the five-volume encyclopedic standard work... More about Elementa Matheseos universae. Tomus Tertius, qui opticam, perspectivam, catoptricam, dioptricam,...
Berlin / Leipzig: Various.. 1. Die Atomionen Chemischer Elemente und ihre Kanalstrahlen-Spektra. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1913. 43 [1] pp., 1 plate. Original publisher's wrappers, all pages untrimmed. Some staining and dust-soiling. Text little age-toned. 2. Änderungen der Struktur und des Spektrums chemischer Atome. Nobelvortrag gehalten am 3. Juni 1920 in... More about A group of three early publications of Johannes Stark (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919
Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers little stained and dust-soiled, text generally very little age-toned. The collection comprises:
1. The Scattering of Electrons by Atoms. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Vol. 127, No. 806, 1930, pp. 658-665. Entire number. Publisher's printed wrappers... More about A group of 9 offprints and journal issues by Nevill Francis Mott (Nobel Prize 1977 in Physics),...
Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping and folds, text generally very little browned, iron staples of Nature issues mostly rusty. The collection comprises:
1. Energy of secondary Röntgen radiation. Offprint from: Proceedings of the Physical Society of London. Vol... More about A collection of 13 offprints and journal issues by Charles G. Barkla (Nobel Prize 1917),...
Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping and folds, text generally very little browned. The collection comprises:
1. The photoelectric effect in potassium vapour as a function of the frequency of the light. Extract from: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin... More about A collection of 10 offprints, journal issues, manuscripts and notes by Ernest O. Lawrence (Nobel...
London: E.J. David, 1903. 8vo (245 x 182 mm). [3] 4-16 pp. Original printed orange wrappers (little dust soiled, two vertical folds, paper sticker on front cover). Internally crisp and clean without stains or markings. Provenance: Henri Becquerel, inscribed in ink by the author on front cover "M. Henri Becquerel... More about Modern Views on Matter: The Realisation of a Dream. An Address Delivered Before the Congress of...
Various: Various.. Various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping, text generally little browned. Front wrappers mostly with shelf marks and ink stamps.
1. The phase in the case of polar reflexion from cobalt and nickel and the angle of reversal of the null rotation... More about A group of 13 offprints by P. Zeeman (Nobel Prize 1902) and co-authors, 1894 to 1936, one with...
Vienna: Trattner, 1754. 4to (290 x 223 mm). [8], 218 pp. Title page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved headpiece on page 1. Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt decorated, blind ruling to boards, all edges dyed red (slight wear to extremities, boards scratched, corners... More about De hydrargyro tentamen physico-chemico-medicum. Pars prior (all published
Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1668. Folio (349 x 224 mm). [38], 913, [47] pp., including half-title, additional engraved pictorial title-page after A. Stech by E. Visscher, letterpress title, 38 engraved plates (4 double-page) numbered A-OO, engraved illustrations throughout, 2 engraved ornamental initials, 2 engraved historiated headpieces, engraved allegorical... More about Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum, utpote sedem, parallaxes, distrantias, ortum &...
