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Astronomy & Cosmology
(NASA) Corliss, William R. | Putting Satellites to Work
£25.00
Overview & Condition First edition and a beautiful copy of this early NASA publication on satellites and their applications, written for high school aged students. The contents include sections...
Beight, Mary Catherine Grady | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Archive
£2,500.00
Overview & Condition Due to this archive's size and weight, additional shipping costs will apply. Please contact us for details.An incredible archive documenting the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
Beringer, David | Diptych Sundial and Compass in Fruitwood and Paper
£375.00
Overview & Condition A very attractive diptych sundial and compass probably produced by the German craftsman David Beringer. Previously sundials of this type had been made in engraved ivory or...
Georgian Era Halley's Comet Brooch with Almandine Garnets
£450.00
Overview & Condition A lovely, late-18th century almandine garnet brooch celebrating the 1759 passage of Halley’s Comet. During 1680 astronomer Edmund Halley travelled through France and Italy. While in...
Jeans, James | The Mysterious Universe
£125.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this elegant Art Deco style volume on cosmology, uncommon in the dust jacket. Author James Jeans (1877-1946) was a respected Cambridge...
Mairan, Jean Jacques D'otous de | Traite Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Bore'ale
£1,750.00
Overview & Condition First edition of de Mairan’s significant treatise on the aurora borealis, including both a scientific analysis of the aurora he viewed in the vicinity of Paris...
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | Science in Orbit
£35.00
Overview & Condition First edition and a beautiful copy of this book celebrating the Space Shuttle’s scientific mission and laboratory capabilities, copiously illustrated in full colour. Among the topics...
NASA | From Here, Where? A Source Book in Space Oriented Mathematics
£45.00
Overview & Condition First edition and an excellent copy of this book of space-related mathematics for high school teachers. This volume was published as part of NASA’s drive to...
NASA | Space Science and the Physics Teacher
£150.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this uncommon early pamphlet on the American space programme for high school and university science teachers, published only five years after...
Robinson, Henry. An Accurate Representation of the Meteor which was seen on August 18th 1783...
£1,500.00
Overview & Condition A rare and historically significant mezzotint depicting the great meteor seen over Britain on August 18th, 1783, “one of the most riveting astronomical events of the...
Rubin, Vera & Kent W. Ford | "Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula..."
£1,750.00
Overview & Condition First edition, in the original wrappers, of Rubin’s key paper presenting the first observational evidence for the existence of dark matter. This copy with the ownership signature...
Russell, Henry Norris | Determinations of Stellar Parallax
£100.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression. A very attractive copy of this key work on stellar parallax which formed the basis for the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, one of the...
Smyth, Charles Piazzi | The Great Comet of 1843 as seen at the Cape of Good Hope...
£5,000.00
Overview & Condition A rare and evocative lithograph of the Great Comet of 1843 as seen from the Cape of Good Hope, observed and, most unusually, also lithographed by...
Smyth, Charles Piazzi | The Zodiacal Light as Seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope...
£5,000.00
Overview & Condition A rare and evocative lithograph of the zodiacal light as seen from the Breede River in South Africa, observed and, most unusually, lithographed by the Astronomer...
Turner, Richard | An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences
£250.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of this charming educational book with the contemporary or near contemporary ownership signatures of three different young women, an excellent material representation of 18th...
Urey, Harold | Archive of correspondence with astronomer Arthur Beer
£1,250.00
Overview & Condition An archive of correspondence between astronomer Arthur Beer and Nobel Prize winning chemist Harold Urey regarding the latter’s contribution to Vistas in Astronomy. Beer (1900-1980) was...
Whitrow, G. J. | The Natural Philosophy of Time
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this key work by the cosmologist and historian of science, J. G. Whitrow (1912-2000). Here Whitrow rejects the compartmentalization of time...
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Wyatt, [Matthew Coates] | A Representation of the Meteor seen at Paddington...
£6,500.00
Overview & Condition A dramatic and uncommon mezzotint depicting the spectacular meteor seen in London on February 11th, 1850, by the prominent court artist Matthew Coates Wyatt (1777-1862). One...
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[Hardouin Brothers] | Zodiac man from a French book of hours
£1,000.00
Overview & Condition Illuminated zodiac man from a 16th-century French book of hours printed on vellum, probably from the workshop of Germain and Gillet Hardouin. During the late 15th...
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