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18730005247New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1873. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo 142pp. stapled pictorial boards with quarter leather spine taped over with old masking tape. Offered "as is". <br/><br/>The second book in Monteith's National Geographical Series. This is the Edition for The Pacific Coast. It has an additional section after p. 124 titled "The Pacific Coast" with additional text and maps of CA OR WA and MT. This copy has a number of previous ownership markings including the daughter of a California pioneer Clara F. Van Winkle of Grayson CA dated Sept. 15 1874. Did you know that the Sea of Japan is shaped like a rabbit or that Cuba is like a lizard A. S. Barnes & Co. hardcover
184231262New York: Dayton & Newman 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 252 pages. Dark brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Cloth is edge torn head of spine. Covers have shelf and edge wear. 50 C written in the upper corner of the right front flyleaf in pen. Moderate damp stains and toning to the text. Inscribed not signed by the author on the right front flyleaf - "Rev. C. P. Bernard With the Respects of the Author." A fair copy. Dayton & Newman hardcover
1887053297New York: John B. Alden 1887. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. 183 Pp. Greenish-Black Cloth Stamped In Blind. Reprint 1887. Near Fine But A Few Pencil Notes And Underlinings. Per Wikipedia Ormsby Macknight Or Mcknight Mitchell 1810 -1862 Was An American Astronomer And Major General In The American Civil War. A Multi-Talented Man He Was Also An Attorney Surveyor Professor And Publisher. He Is Notable For Publishing The First Magazine In The United States Devoted To Astronomy. Known In The Union Army As "Old Stars" He Is Best Known For Ordering The Raid That Became Famous As The Great Locomotive Chase During The American Civil War. <br/> <br/> John B. Alden hardcover
1856g9535London: W Kent and Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Some foxing. 1856. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". x 197pp; viii 297pp. John Cassell's Educational Course. . W Kent and Co hardcover
1896045659New York: D. Appleton And Company 1896. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Plates. Xii 363 Pp. Three Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Boards Top Edge Gilt. Lightly Used But A Little Fraying Along Top Edge Of Spine Which Also Has A Few Faint Damp Spots. Bookplate Of Mary D. Sternbergh Widow Of J. H. Sternbergh Of Reading Pa Who Left A Fortune Of Over $2000000 In 1913. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton And Company hardcover
1867021213Clarendon Press: 1867. 816 pages 224 illustrations. "Astronomy is not cultivated in this country either as a study or as a recreation to the extent that it is on the Continent of Europe and in America. I am not exactly prepared to say why this should be so but perhaps a clue can be found. There is a lack of works in the English language which are at one and the same time attractive to the general reader serviceable to the student and handy for purposes of reference to the professional Astronomer; in fact of works which are popular without being vapid and scientific without being unduly technical." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER . Brown cloth worn at spine edges and corners of book else a nice clean tight copy. Bookplate on the front pastedown. . Hard Cover. Very Good-/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clarendon Press: Hardcover
1898622237Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1898. First edition hard cover with a loose plastic jacket no dust jacket both in very good condition. Green cloth boards have gilt title and author to front board gilt book details to spine. Gilt pageblock head present. General shelf and handling wear including light creasing and wear to board edges spine head and foot with tanning to pageblock this leading into pastedowns and page edges. The lower half of page 331 is damaged at the leading edge caused by the careless cutting of the leaves upon first use; page 330 has the narrow strip still attached to its own leading edge. Otherwise content is unmarked pages tightly bound. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Co. Hardcover
1871484427N. J. Newark 1871. Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. 29 pages with one-page appendix. Boards are lightly marked and edge-worn. Minor bumps on spine. Page block and pages are lightly marked and tanned. Light creases throughout pages. Minor tears on lower edges of FEP and title page. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Good. Used. N. J. Newark Hardcover
1829c1952London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Some foxing. 1829. 5th Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 341pp plates. 4 b/w plates vignettes. . Longman, Rees, Orme Brown, & Green hardcover
1872045652Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1872. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Offprint or continued publication of a larger work. Pages 55-177 3 as issued. Hardcover bound in original brown cloth with spine titles in gilt. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. The spine has some white shelf numbers partly rubbed off at the headcap. An ex-library copy with a removed bookplate on the front pastedown and a library blind stamp on the title page. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. Contains two color plates including the frontis and several black and white text illustrations. This appears as an offprint but in fact it was published this way as a regularly published stand-alone work. It details the science of ascertaining information of distant stars the composition of their gasses etc. through analysis of the the light through telescopes. This was a ground-breaking tool in observing the universe beyond our solar system in the 19th century. <br/> <br/> Estes and Lauriat hardcover
1839521613London: William Pickering 1839. Hardcover no jacket. Bridgewater treatises on the power wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation - volume three. Sunning and wear to the boards and spine; a few bumps to the edges and leading corners. Abrasions and wear to the spine label. The pages are rough cut with instances of foxing tanning and creases throughout. The closing section of pages have chips and tears to the gutters however the text remains unaffected. The binding is a little visible at points otherwise remains sound throughout. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used. William Pickering Hardcover
1845025962Vicenza: Dalla Tipografia Tremeschin / Annali Delle Scienze Del Regno Lombardo-Veneto 1845. First Separate Edition . Soft cover. Good. Folding Plate at End. Original Plain Blue Wrappers. Title Colophon 12 Un-Numbered Pages Folding Plate At End. Offprint From Issues Iii And Iv Of The Annali Delle Scienze Del Regno Lombardo-Veneto Of 1845. Small Label "Miscell. 7 / 23 Biblioteca E. Levi" On Front Cover No Other Names Or Marks. Short Edge Tears To Covers But Complete. <br/> <br/> Dalla Tipografia Tremeschin / Annali Delle Scienze Del Regno Lombardo-Veneto paperback
1843j1944dLondon: N H Cotes. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Bowing to boards. Splitting to outer hinges. Inner hinge cracking. Staining to paste-downs and eps. Occasional thumbing and marking. Loss to rear ep. 1843. Second Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". viii 172pp. B/w in-text illustrations. . N H Cotes hardcover
1893037662New York: Macmillan And Co 1893. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 404 Pp. 7 Pp Publisher's Ads At Rear.New Edition Revised Throughout By The Author . January 1893". Tan Cloth Stamped In Black And Red. Lightly Used A Few Tiny Frays Along Bottom Edge Of Spine Hinges Solid Spine Leaned. Handwritten Name Of "George Ellery Heale" And Direct From The Astronomer George Ellery Hale's Personal Library But Does Not Match Examples Of His Signature Nor Of Crawford's; Possibly A Gift To Hale. <br/> <br/> Macmillan And Co hardcover
189676030Kiel: Druck von S. Schsidt 1896. First offprint edition. Quarto. 140-47 1 pp. Publisher's printed gray wrappers. Old Crease through the middle cause short seperations at spine and fore-edge old tide mark to upper margin. Russell made measurements at Sydney for many years. Henry Chamberlain Russell Russell was an astronomer meteorologist and one of the most eminent men of science in Australia in the nineteenth century. Upon leaving the University at the end of 1859 he was appointed assistant to the Government Astronomer. He became the Government Astronomer in 1870 and subsequently held the position for 35 years. Druck von S. Schsidt unknown
189650094Lynn MA: Nichols Press 1896. First Separate Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's cream stitched card printed wrappers; 12pp. Wrapper extremities rather toned and brittle with a few small chips to extremities else Good and internally sound. Obituary of the late astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896 first published in the "Boston Transcript" December 12 1896. Nichols Press unknown
1896022957Cambridge: At the University Press 1896. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 414 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Rubbing and wear to the binding with the spine of the headcap a bit chipped or frayed. An ex-library copy with minimal markings. Bookplate on front pastedown empty pocket on rear pastedown and a scratched-out number at the lower left corner of the title page. The top right corner of the title page is clipped. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. George Biddle Airy 1801-1892 was an English mathematician and an astronomer who helped map the courses of a number of planets. He also helped establish Greenwich as the prime meridian. <br/> <br/> At the University Press hardcover
184254925Dayton & Newman New York 1842. Hardcover. Used - Good. NY: Dayton & Newman 1842. Copyright 1842. Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine NY. Printed by George W. Wood & Co NY. 252 pages. 7.5x4.75" black cloth gold title blind stamped decorative panel on boards 'Elles & Middlebrook Binders' in border. 'L.J. Dudley' in ink on upper blank. Mason born Washington CT 1819 Yale 1839 abandoned graduate studies to join Maine boundary expedition 1840 published 'Observations on Nebulae' in Transactions of American Philosophical Society 'Introduction to Practical Astronomy' died Richmond VA 1840. Tips bit frayed cover rubbed spotted foxed else VG. Dayton & Newman, New York hardcover
1892d3129bLondon: Longmans Green & Co. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Inner hinge cracking. Browning to page edges. Ex-lib copy. 1892. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 200mm 12" x 8". viii 816pp plates. 31 plates 4 fold-out 5 with colour. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Longmans, Green, & Co hardcover
1895024390Rostock Germany 1895. Good condition. Brief illegible ink note on cover. Minor crease. 1895. First Edition. Bound in the blue original wraps stamped in black. This is from the library of and bears the small ink stamp of American mathematician Temple Rice Hollcroft 1889 - 1967. Hollcroft received B.S. in 1912 and A.B. in 1914 from Hanover College and then A.M. in 1915 from the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in 1917 from Cornell University under Virgil Snyder. Hollcroft was a mathematics professor at Wells College from 1918 to 1954 from which he retired as professor emeritus. Hollcroft served for 14 years as Associate Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematician ICM. His subject was THE GENERAL WEB OF SURFACES AND THE SPACE INVOLUTION DEFINED BY IT . Being invited to talk at the ICM has been called "the equivalent of induction to a hall of fame." - from Wikipedia. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 9 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Paperback
185634176New York: Daily Times Office 1856. Second Edition. Wraps. Fair. Disbound wraps. Approx. 8" x 5.5". New paper spine. 41 pages 1 page blank. Persistent brown stain through the upper section of the pages. Everett's speech touches upon the Voyage of Hendrick Hudson; Discovery of the Hudson River; Champlain's Voyage and the Growth of Colonies; Galileo's Discoveries; Early Days of Albany; New Amsterdam; Scientific Progress Wonders of Astronomy the Telescope; Geographical Science and more. Title first printed by Little Brown and Company in Boston the same year. Daily Times Office unknown
184915373Albany and Cincinnatti: Erastus H. Pease & Co. And Jacob Ernst. Good. 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather cover with black panel on spine gilt lettering. Leather is scuffed primarily near edges and cracked at joints. Spine scuffed and has loss of about 1/4 inch at head and tail of spine. Binding sound. Endpapers and several adjoining leaves heavily foxed around edges due to acid in leather. Pages lightly tanned. No marks in text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 228 pages . Erastus H. Pease & Co. And Jacob Ernst hardcover
1836j3149bLondon: Sherwood & Co. Worn condition. Front board detached. Frontis plate torn and ragged. Closed tear to plate xiii. Content in overall good condition. 1836. New Edition. Green hardback leather cover. 160mm x 110mm 6" x 4". 287pp. 34 b/w plates some fold-out. . Sherwood & Co hardcover
1805037262Oxford: Clarendon Press 1805. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Xxiv 389 Pp. Volume I Only With Lives Of Donne Wotton And Hooker Only. Full Calf Re-Backed Neatly To Style Gilt. From Library Of Astronomer George Ellery Hale Dated In London In 1910 But That Inscription Has Been Clipped Away Not Present. . <br/> <br/> Clarendon Press hardcover
1857614349London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1857. Very good condition hardcover with gilt decorated red boards and gilt lettering on the spine no dust jacket. Page block is gilt edged with complementary marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Boards are scuffed with some surface colour loss noted. Edges corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and name penned to FEP. A few light spots of foxing on a few of the pages which are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts Hardcover