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 a bit yellowed, a few marginal kinks, but generally well preserved. ----
"The USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic (LEM)..... More
Greenbelt, MD: National Space Science Data Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1970. April 1970. 8vo (268 x 203 mm). vi, 11 [1], A1-A8 pp. Stapled (as issued), with printed b/w pictorial and printed covers. Signed and incribed on front cover "Buzz Aldrin / Apollo XI". Provenance: John H. Boynton..... More
Washington, D.C. NASA. Ed Mitchell Autograph on a NASA (8x10") black and white publicity photo picturing the LM on the lunar surface. Mitchell has signed in silver ink "Fra Mauro Base".
Apollo 14 (January 31 - February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program..... More
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1960. Contributions, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, No. 1. Oblong folio (470 x 583 mm). Title, divisional part title, 2 pages of text, 3 maps and 60 photographs. Original red cloth.Title with two tears. Dedication inscription by Ewen Whitaker to the British Astronomical Association. ----..... More
Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc. 1837. Berlin: Simon Schropp, 1837. 4to (295 x 235mm), xviii, 412 pp, 5 wood-engraved plates, letterpress title-leaf. Later morocco-backed cloth (lightly sunfaded, new endpapers). Text little browned (plates a bit stronger) and with light scattered foxing, plates with waterstaining towards lower corner. Provenance: William Porthouse..... More
Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc. 1834. Lithographed lunar map by C. VOGEL after W. BEER and J.H. MÄDLER. 4 sections, mounted on a single sheet of brown linen and folding, 95 x 99 cm (total size). Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc., 1834. Slightly foxed, with owner's entry of A. SCHWEIZER..... More
Milan: E. Treves, editore, 1872. 8vo (194 x 128 mm). 96 pp., with a folding map of the moon bound as frontispiece, half-title and title, text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Text little browned and dust-soiled. Provenance: Regia Bibliotheca Mediolanensis Milano (red ink stamp to title), Biblioteca Istituto del Nastro Azzurro..... 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
Nürnberg: J. B. Homann, 1730. Engraved double-hemisphere of the lunar surface, hand-colored, image 494 x 588 mm (single sheet 520 x 593). Map is laid down and framed under glass. ----
Important double-hemisphere map of the surface of the moon, depicting the lunar maps of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and Giovanni..... More
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
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1895. 20 b&w collotype sheets with 25 topographical charts in original publisher's folder with printed boards (330 x 250 mm), one explanatory sheet pasted onto inner front board. Additional text volume, stapled as issued and with publisher's printed wrappers (287 x 226 mm). x, 66 pp..... More
[Grünwald bei München]: by the author, 1932. Folio (402 x 425 mm). 16 Maps and 1 leaf of explanatory text in original printed grey wrappers, additional hand-lettered paper dust wrapper. Little age-toned, the explanatory sheet soiled at lower margin, light dust-soiling to margins throughout. Ink stamp of the British Astronomical..... More
Breslau: Maruschke & Berendt, 1901. 1901-1903. Two volumes. 4to (315 x 235 mm). vi, [2], 116 pp., 6 collotype plates of moon phases (one bound as frontispiece); iv, 120 pp., 6 plates of moon phases and diagrams (incl. 1 collotype). Uniformly bound in half cloth, gilt-lettered spines, printed upper boards..... More
London: Published and printed by the Author, 1910. Large folio (455 x 455 mm). Separate printed sheets in folder: title, index, and 25 maps. The contemporary folder is made of percaline over boards with gilt-lettered front cover (spine and corners damaged and chipped, leather strap partially gone). The plates evenly..... More
Bournemouth: Published and printed by the Author and by Pardy & Son, 1931. 4to (245 x 175 mm), [4] 364 pp. Several illustrations and diagrams in text (many full-page), a few on separate sheets outside pagination. Contemporary half red morocco over cloth, rebacked with gilt-lettered portion of original spine preserved..... More
1825. No place, no date (but ca. 1825). Lithographed map of the full moon on a single unfolded sheet, pasted onto cardboard, total size 410 x 495 mm. Very minor, mostly marginal, browning and soiling. ----
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE separate map of the moon by or after Gruithausen in orthographic projection..... 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
Danzig: A. Hünefeld for the author, 1647. Folio (346 x 215 mm). [4], [26], 563 [1] pp., including title (printed in red and black), additional engraved title-page with historiated border incorporating figures of Alhazen and Galileo, 108 (of 111) engraved illustrations on 88 (of 91) plates (3 full-sheet; one with..... More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1970. Folio format. 152 pp. Several b&w and one colored photographic illustrations throughout. Original gilt-lettered green cloth (light rubbing of spine and boards). Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by El-Baz on title-page ("To Bill Muehlberger / With compliments / Farouk ElBaz"). Fine copy. ----
Ashworth, The face..... More
Triest: Privately Printed, 1898. 4to (315 x 257 mm), with photogravure of Krieger's observatory and 28 photolithographed plates, each with a transparent key overlay. Original three-quarter cloth with publisher's printed boards. Only very little soiling and age-toning, overlay tissue guards browned as usual, inner hinges starting. A fine, crisp copy..... More
Wien & Leipzig: E.H.Mayer, 1912. Two parts in two volumes (text and atlas). 4to (310 x 254 mm). Text volume: xviii, 376 pp., frontispiece portrait of Krieger in heliogravure, 5 full-page photographic illustrations of which 2 with associated tissue-paper key overlay, 26 smaller photographic illustrations in text. Plate volume: [8]..... More
St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, 1960. Vol. 1 [on ring-binder]. St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, February 1960. Oblong folio (430 x 532 mm). Pictorial title, 228 monochrome photographed plates of the moon's surface (title creased, one plate detached, some fraying to last few plates). Original ring-binder..... More
Paris: Librairie astronomique G. Thomas [Publication subventionnée par l'Académie des sciences de Paris], 1914. Large folio (505 x 385 mm). 6 fascicles comprising 48 photographic plates in heliogravures by L. Massard after the photographs by the author, taken at the Observatoire de Paris between 1902 and 1907. The plates are..... More
Paris: Observatoire de Paris, 1899. Plate XXXII from Atlas Photographique de la Lune, 1896-1910. Photogravure printed for Loewy et Puiseux, Observatoire de Paris, by J. Heuse, Paris. 1 sheet, image size 560 x 464 mm (total size 813 x 610 mm). A clean and bright copy with just a very..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth (Arthur Meiner), 1892. 4to (331 x 275 mm). viii, 49 [1], 4 pp. including original publisher's printed wrapper to text volume (front wrapper chipped at outer edges due to some brittleness of paper and separated at fold, first leaves detached), 2 explanatory plates (A..... More
