Earth Moon, Solar System, Planets, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 1959. 4to (261 x 205 mm). 33 [5] pp., 5 diagrams and 4 full-page photographic reproductions in text. Original blue cloth covers with the spacecraft and the moon stamped in blind and blue, lettering in blue and gilt (uneven..... 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
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
London: George Philip & Son, 1895. 8vo (246 x 155 mm). viii, 173, [3] pp., 4 double-page maps of the moon, half-title and advert leaf at end. Original publishers blue cloth, lettering to upper board and spine, cloth heavily waterstained, rubbed and worn at extremities, binding a bit weak (inner..... More
Bremen: Olbers-Gesellschaft, 1964. 28 folding sheets of lunar maps (22 of large size 695 x 695 mm, and 6 smaller sheets, double-page and printed in red and black), separate volume of 38 pages explanatory text ("Erläuterungen zum Fauth'schen Mondatlas"). Original papercard folding box with publisher's pictorial label on front cover..... More
London: A. Owen & Co., 1907. 8vo (208 x 143 mm). 160 pp. [2], 12 pp. Half-title, colored frontispiece, advertisements, 66 b&w illustrations in text. Original publishers blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper board (a trifle rubbing to extremities and spine ends). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (library stamp and shelf..... 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
London: George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1857. 4to (305 x 250 mm). [20], 511 [1] pp. Contemporary cloth, printed paper label on spine (head and lower portion of spine chipped, upper joint split, corners bumped, wear to extremities). Text little age-toned, title-page a bit soiled, light dust-soiling elsewhere. Provenance..... 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
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
Moscow: Nauka, 1960. 2 volumes. 4to. 149; 235, [1] pp. 1 loosely inserted folding map, 30 photographic illustrations of the moon on folding plates, 3 other folding plates, numerous illustrations and tables. Original publisher's blindstamped cloth, the second volume with the original dustwrappers, the first with simple paper wrappers. ----..... More
Brussels: Société Royale Belge d'Astronomie, de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe, 1899. Fascicule 1-12 (all published). Folio (330 x 250 mm). 2 sheets of text and 71 half-tone prints after photographs by Loewy and Puiseux. Each photographic plate accompanied by a printed overlay, with principal features named and highlighted..... 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: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1878. Folio (315 x 263 mm). Dedication, half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 25 engraved section maps of the moon after W.G. Lohrmann and 2 explanatory plates. Contemporary half leather (rebacked and recornered preserving part of original gilt-lettered spine, front free endpaper starting). Some light mostly marginal..... More
Berlin: Simon Schropp u. Comp. 1837. 1 engraved map, 540 x 450mm, faint spotting and pale browning, a few minor handling creases at sheet edges, a small loss to upper right sheet corner, not affecting map or text. ----
VERY RARE First edition. Separately published hemispherical map of the moon..... More
