Frankfurt am Main: Apud Augustum Boetium, 1678. 12mo (128 x 68 mm). [10], 280, [48] pp. Title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, final leaf blank, woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum, new endpapers, spine with modern ink lettering. Text browned throughout, stronger from p.109 onwards including..... More

Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1479. Folio (295 x 205 mm). 570 (of 572) unfoliated leaves, lacking initial and final blanks only. Printer's name and place of publication from ISTC; publication date from colophon on verso of leaf 9(8); title from first lines of text on recto of leaf a2. Signatures: a-y¹⁰..... More

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Volume one only. 8vo (235 x 148 mm). xxviii [4], 1-559, 556-597 [1] pp. including half-title, engraved frontispiece, errata leaf, and 16 engraved plates (including one folding map) and 2 folding maps loose in front cover pocket. Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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