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Astronomy & Cosmology
Bennett, Samuel | A New Explanation of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, upon the Principles of Gravitation
£275.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this rare early American work purporting to explain the tides in a way that “will confirm, in a most remarkable manner,...
Beringer, David | Diptych Sundial and Compass in Fruitwood and Paper
£500.00
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...
Burgess, James | Notes on Hindu Astronomy and the History of Our Knowledge of It
£250.00
Overview & Condition An uncommon offprint by the mathematician and archaeologist James Burgess (1832-1916), a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, “with the author’s compliments,...
Clarke, Arthur C. | The Coming of the Space Age
£100.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression. A gorgeous copy in the classic Gollancz jacket, uncommon in such nice condition. The Coming of the Space Age contains thirty-six essays...
Dyson, Frank Watson | Autograph letter signed to Hugh Frank Newall on astrophotography
£375.00
Overview & Condition Two page autograph letter by Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868-1939) to fellow astronomer Hugh Frank Newall, director of the Solar Physics Observatory at Cambridge,...
Earle, Alice Morse | Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
£100.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing and a lovely copy. This charming and comprehensively illustrated volume discuses all manner of sundials and their history and symbolism, including garden...
Early-19th century French perpetual calendar and pocket notebook
£550.00
Overview & Condition A rare French perpetual calendar and pocket notebook published in the late 1830s, a remarkable survival of such a fragile and ephemeral item. The perpetual calendar...
Georgian Era Halley's Comet Brooch with Almandine Garnets
£650.00
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...
Herschel, John | Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope;
£2,750.00
Overview & Condition A rare, large-paper presentation copy of this “monumental survey of the stars” inscribed in Herschels’ own hand to “The Geological Society of London by the hand...
Jeans, James | The Mysterious Universe
£175.00
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...
Mitton, G. E. | The Children's Book of Stars
£75.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of this charming children's book on astronomy, originally published the previous year, with unusual and attractive boards depicting constellations. The contents cover the solar...
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...
Turner, Richard | An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences
£375.00
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
£95.00
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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[Bloxam, Richard Rouse] | Set of six cards from Urania's Mirror.
£150.00
Overview & Condition Set of six hand-coloured cards from the first edition of the elegant astronomical teaching set Urania’s Mirror, “one of the most charming and visually attractive of...
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[Byers, Nina] Wali, Kameshwar C. | Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar
£150.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to pioneering female physicist Nina Byers on the front free endpaper, "Happy New Year! To dear Nina, With...
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[Hardouin Brothers] | Zodiac man from a French book of hours
£1,500.00
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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