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NAVIGATION AND NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY. The Practical Part; Containing Rules for Finding the Latitude and Longitude, and the Variation of the Compass. With Numerous Examples.

By: Jeans, H.W.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London: John Weale, 1853.: 1853.

Seller ID: 95440

Condition: Fair

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN ASTRONOMER WILLIAM HARKNESS, SIGNED BY HIM - Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Three-quarter black leather & marbled boards, titled in gilt with raised bands on the spine. The covers are rubbed and the leather is scuffed. The rear cover is detached. 279 pages, illustrated with textual diagrams. There is offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns with minor chipping to the edges of the endpapers. The edges of the title page are darkened and the pages are toned. A complete copy of the rare first edition well worth rebinding. First edition. ...
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SUN, EARTH AND SKY

By: Lang, Kenneth R

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag (1995).: (1995).

Seller ID: 27467

ISBN: 3540587780

Condition: Very good

Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag (1995).. (1995).. Very good. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a light score mark to its rear panel. xv, [i] & 282 pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Dust jacket present.
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NICHOLAS COPERNICUS 1543-1943.

By: Mizwa, Stephen P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Kosciuszko Foundation, 1943.: 1943.

Seller ID: 37327

Condition: Good

- Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The corners are very slightly creased & the front cover is lightly foxed. 87 & [1] pages. Illustrated in black & white. The gutters and the fore-edge & bottom edge are lightly foxed. Good. Second printing. This brochure on the life and work of Copernicus and his place in the culture of Poland went to press as plans were being made by the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York to celebrate the Copernican Quadricentennial.
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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAIPUR.

By: Rajawat, Daulat Singh.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Jaipur, India: Delta Publications.:

Seller ID: 95756

Condition: Fine

Jaipur, India: Delta Publications. . Fine. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 39 & [1] pages. Profuse color illustrations with a few diagrams in black & white. Near fine. Illustrated history of the astronomical observatory at Jaipur, India, including a brief life of its founder Sawai Jai Singh, eighteenth-century king, soldier and scientist.
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THE UNIVERSE IS A GREEN DRAGON: A Cosmic Creation Story

By: Swimme, Brian

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, (1984).: (1984).

Seller ID: 30095

ISBN: 0939680149

Condition: Very good

Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, (1984).. (1984).. Very good. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is slightly bumped & the spine is lightly rubbed. 173 pages plus publisher's ad & 1-page catalog. 6 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Very good.

Later printing.

A splendid association copy inscribed by American saxophonist Paul Winter to Peter Matthiessen on the inside front wrap: "For Peter / In celebration of our mutual love for the Green Dragon, & with smiling memories of Baikal / Un abraco / Paul / 9/90".

In 1990, Matthies...
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