New York: The Century Co, 1891. Wraps. Illustrated wraps, although MISSING rear wrapper. Black and white illustrations throughout, including an ad for Ivory Soap depicting an African-American boy floating a bar of soap as a boat, with an inset of an African-American woman looking in the empty cupboard. Single issue..... More
Moscow: 1954. Hard Cover. 607 pages. With several in text illustrations and a few fold out facsimiles of Bredikhin's writing. All text in Russian/Cyrillic. Fyodor Bredikhin, a Russian astronomer, is best known for his studies on the tales of comets and his studies of meteors. This work apparently collects many..... More
Boston: Rand, Avery and Company. 1874. First Edition. Original Wraps. Printed wraps. An address by Benjamin A. Gould describing his travels in South America, primarily Argentina, performing astronomical observations and presenting some of his findings. Gould was a noted American astronomer, one of the first to use photography, and recipient..... More
Salem, MA: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co, 1892. First Edition. Original Wraps. An offprint from the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XLI 1892. Pages numbered 17-32, not including title page. An address by Eastman delineating the problems in the field of astronomy..... More
London: James, Luke G. and Luke J. Hansard, Printers, 1840. Original Wraps. Plain card wraps. 48 pages. A monthly almanac providing various numerical notations for the positions of astrological signs and other celestial objects, including planets. Also included are the mean places of the principal fixed stars, ephemerides of new..... More
New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Publisher, 1981. Wraps. Photo illustrated wraps. Oblong format. 64 pp. Color and black and white photos throughout. A catalog to a 1981 exhibition of photography taken in space or of objects in space, with an essay examining the unique..... More