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199838700NY:: Plenum Trade. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0306457954 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Plenum Trade, hardcover books
1789D16582Boston: B. Edes & Son 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 19thcentury ¾ leather and marbled paper over boards. 16pp. Lacking the folding plate which holds the distinction of being the first chart of the solar system produced in the United States. Nevertheless a book that has become quite scarce on the market. Housed in a custom box with a reproduction of the lacking chart folded and laid in. <br/><br/> B. Edes & Son hardcover books
182026937np 1820. Caption title as issued. 8pp stitched. Light wear untrimmed small hole affects a couple of letters. Good. With the contemporary ownership signature of Wm. B. Stilson.<br/><br/> Descriptions of the major constellations imprint unknown but certainly the United States. This rare pamphlet leads with Orion followed by the Pleiades Castor & Pollux and moves right along. <br/>Not in Sabin American Imprints Eberstadt Decker. OCLC 28681901 3- AAS NYPL Emory. unknown books
18342130413Carter Hendee & Co 1834. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Light stain to bottom half of boards & pages does not affect legibility edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head front free endpaper removed lightly foxed throughout. 1834 Hard Cover. viii 184 pp. 12mo. Leather spine printed paper over boards. Eight fold-out plates follow text depicting various aspects of the solar system planets the moon patterns of orbit stars constellations etc. A guide to basic astronomy for the use of students. Includes an introductory sketch of the history of ancient astronomy a glossary of astronomical terms and chapters on: the solar system; causes of the planetary motion; prospect of the heavens as seen from different parts of the solar system; comets; equation of time; the harvest moon; the tides; eclipses; divisions of time; obliquity; parallax; the fixed stars; refraction; twilight; latitude and longitude; meteors; artificial globes. Index precedes text. Though numerous copies were found in institutional holdings appears to be somewhat uncommon in the trade - at the time our copy was cataloged only 2 records of sale at auction in the last fifty years and only 2 other copies offered for sale. Carter, Hendee & Co hardcover books
