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Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1919. First thus edition. Occasional Scientific Papers of the Westwood Astrophysical Observatory No. 2. Printed brown paper wraps. Short royal 8vo. pp. 55, [1] blank. VG+. Cover soiling and several minor chips o/w internally fine. Paper presented in abstract at the 22nd meeting of the American Astonomical Society at Harvard College Observatory 8/20/1918, reprinted in full from New-Church Review (Vol. XXV, pp. 528-76), elaboration of Swedenborg's Principia also in NCR April and July 1913 (Vol. XX: pp. 161-91 and pp. 392-436). Present paper includes much additional material not published elsewhere. Scarce..

Fairbanks: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska, January, 1963. Illustrated by 30 charts. First edition. AFCRL-63-305: Contract No. AF19(604)-6180. Ammended Special Report approved by C. T. Elvey. Cloth backed yellow printed card wraps. 4to (27cm). pp. 19, 30 plates. Near Fine. Light cover wear, text recto. Abstract: Results in Alaska, New Zealand and Shepherd Bay Canada during the Johnson Bay nuclear tests on 7/9, 10/20 & 26, 11/1 & 4 1962. Simultaneous conjugate data were obtained at Oamaru, N.Z. and Cold Bay Alaska on 9/9. The Detonations caused initial field oscillations of 2.5-3 sec. period followed by longer period oscillations. 5 KC VLF used..

July 1943. Illustrated by b/w frontis, line drawings and charts. Stated 6th printing of first edition. (c.April 1942). Limp blue cloth, gilt print, table eps, cut fore-edge index. Cr.4to. pp. [iv], 104, [4] blank. NF/Ex-Lib. Stamp of the Dudley Observatory. Several signatures of Harry Raymond (1876-1961) with gift plate from his son Dr. Robert Raymond. Rubbed covers, yellowing page edges..

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office [Neill & Co., Edinburg], 1921; 1928. First edition. copies of Benjamin Boss, Dudley Observatory. 2 volumes. Limp gray cloth, printed paper label to top & bottom boards. Royal 4to. pp. 76; 67. VG/No jacket. Cover and internal soil, copy of Benjamin Boss with faint pencil initials B.B. and observatory stamp..

Burlington, NJ: Printed and Published by David Allinson & Co, 1812. Edited by John Gummere, 1784-1845, "revised, corrected and improved by". Illustrated by line drawings and tables in text, one fold out plate. First edition. Full leather, 5 gilt spine tiles. 8vo. pp. 226, 145. About Very Good. Cap chipped binding but joints and hinges intact, foxing starting, period ink owner..

n.p: N.P, 1876. Illustrated by 4 fold-out plates in red, comet plate in blue ONLY. 5 volumes. Folded broadsides with tip-in tabs at the top of each thick tissue plate. 4-22.5 by 12-inches each; 1-13.5 by 13.5-inches. Fine. Plate A: Mai 5-Juin 4; Plate B: Juin 7- Juilet 1; Plate C:Juilet 5-Aout 23; Plate D: Aout 24-Octobr. 5. Each date charted from 0 to 354 by increments of 6 for a total of 60 profils. (could be from A l'Observatoire Astronomique de Kasan as a small perforated tab found with plates). Postage as one book..

Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co, 1874. Illustrated by Tables. First edition. Royal blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt print, 6 double gilt spine bands and title/year,. Royal 8vo (25cm). pp. xxvi, 111; xxiv, 117, [2]. Very Good. Spine darkened to navy blue, light cap crushing and minor board nicks, period Astronomical Library bookplates and printer front pastedowns. Sir Thomas Maclear resigned directorship in Spring 1870. On 4 June 1870 Edward James Stone was appointed "Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape". Transit-circle observations by Thomas and George Maclear, William Mann, George Christie; Donati's Comet observations were reported in Memoirs RAS (Vol.29). Instrumental correction tables (both years), R.A. Stars (both years), Star Catalogue of concluded mean R.A and mean N.P.D. (both years), R.A. and N.P.D. of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1860); R.A. Moon's Limb and of Moon-culminating stars together with occultations of stars (both years) ..

Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co, 1877; 1879. Illustrated by Tables. First edition. 2 volumes. Royal blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt print, 6 double gilt spine bands and title/year, gilt print topboard. Royal 8vo (25cm). pp. xvii, 263, [1]; xiv, 336. Very Good. Spine darkened to navy blue, light cap crushing and minor board nicks, period Astronomical Library bookplates front pastedowns. Several scattered pages have soil. Re-observation of all Lacaille's Stars in "Coelum Australe Stelliferum" (commenced in 1871 for 145¼-155¼ N.P.D.): 135¼-145¼ N.P.D. in 1876, 125¼-135¼ N.P.D. in 1877 followed. Instrumental corrections; separate R.A.; N.P.D.; Star Catalogue for both years. Edward James Stone, William Henry Finlay, George W. H. Maclear, Calcott M. Stevens succeeded by Robert Thos. Pett (1/31/76), Isaac Freeman, observers. Errors for 1871-4, and list of publications 1871-7 (in Year 1875)..

: Contributions from the Observatory of Columbia University No. 22, 1904. Illustrated by 2 Plates. Reprint thus edition. Reprinted from The Annals of the New York Aademy of Science Vol. SV. Printed card wraps, unopened. 8vo. pp. iii, 217-293, [9] plates. Very Good+. Observatory stamps, edgewear to cover, internally near fine. All sections unopened, original return postcard laid in. Astronomer (Columbia) and NY yachtsman most remembered for his monograph disputing Einstein's Theory of Relativity..

Fairbanks: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska, May, 1963. Illustrated by 46 figures, 7 tables. First edition. NSF Grant No. G14133, GP947. Scientific Report No. 4. Cloth backed yellow printed card wraps. 4to (27cm). pp. errata, xviii, 217. Apendices, References. Near Fine. Light wear to cover, text recto. Abstract: "The relation between visual aurora and absorption of cosmic noise at 36 Mc/s is studied by several narrow beam antennas and photometers pointed in different directions along the magnetic meridian". Results: auroral absorption can be divided into several categories & sub categories. (Oversize post)..

New York: Published from the Bruce Fund (New Era Printing, Lancaster PA), 1903. Illustrated by two b/w plates (author objective plane grating), tables. First edition. Original reply receipt card laid in. Original gray printed wraps, uncut, unopened. Royal 8vo (25 cm). pp. iv, 5-42, [2] blank. Very Good. Light cover soil, faint foxing, sections unopened (unread). Canadian mathematician and astronomer's second of ten eclipse expeditions. Sawan Loento, Dutch West Indies of May 18, 1901. Rear cover lists Nos. 1-21..

Washington, DC: Printed for the Use of the Nautical Almanac, 1856. First thus edition. American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Brown stitched wraps. 4to. pp. [iii], 304-329. VG. Traces of cover soil, foxing starting, internally fine, no ownership. Scarce supplement constructed from the formulae given by Walker in a report to Prof Bache, the Superintendent at the Coast Survey, and printed on the 114th page of the Coast Survey Report for 1848; and from those given by Adams on the 263rd page of Volume XIII of the Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. They are adapted to the formulae and arguments of the Tables of the Moon, constructed for the use of the Nautical Almanac..

Fairbanks: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska, October, 1967. Illustrated by charts, graphs, line drawings. First edition. AFCRL-67-0550, Contract No. AF19(628)-1695. Project 8601, 11/62-10/67. Final Report approved by Keith B. Mather. Cloth backed yellow printed card wraps. 4to (27cm). pp. xxv, 67, [38] figures. Bibiliography. Very Good. Observatory stamp and light edgewear to cover, text recto. Final report, muli- person and agency under contract monitor Elwood Maple, Space Physics Laboratory from GIUA personnel: Hessler, Heacock and Wescott 18 February 1958-31 October 1967..

Madras: Printed at the Lawrence Asylum Press by W. H. Moore (small press ticket rear pastedown), 1884. Illustrated by tables. First edition. Presentation plate front pastedown "By order of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council at Madras to The Dudley Observatory, Albany" with their bookplate. Navy pebble cloth, gilt stamped spine (Telegraphic Longitude Determinations in India) also title of introductory remarks. Demy 4to (28cm). pp. 82. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Lightly sunned spine (looking a bit green), two barely bumped corners, specks and spots of soil/stain, one tiny top-edge tear pp. 79-80. Pogson was the fifth Governor astronomer (1861-91) of the Madras Observatory since 1792 (Topping, Goldingham, Taylor, Jacob) and had proposed the survey since the end of 1861. Results were conjointly made in 1870 on with Mons. G. Fleuriais (Lieutenant de Vaisseau, en Mission Scientifique a Pondicherry), letter of 12/1869 in introduction. (As Admiral, Fleuriais would later develop the… Leer más

Washington, DC: GPO, 1930-1. Illustrated by 1 plate & b/w line drawings; Figures and tables. Reprints edition. Department of Commerce V5/8-30, 12-30, V6/4-31. 3 volumes. Stapled wraps, printed cover. 8vo. pp. 305-324; 1205-1241; 621-672. VG. Light cover soil. Titles: The Structure of the Spectra of Doubly and Trebly Ionized Zirconium; The Structure of the Spectrum of Singly Ionized Zirconium; The Structure of the ARC Spectrum of Zirconium. (Postage as one..

Albany: College of Arts and Science Department of Astronomy and Space Science, 1975. First edition. Recto copy in black plastic loose leaf binder. 4to. pp. vi, 126. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Bookplate of Dudley Observatory Library. Includes signature sheet: J. Mayo Greenberg, Stephan C. Temesvary, D. C. Schmalberger, Jerry L. Weinberg. Hong is attributed with 18 publications, but his Ph.D. Thesis is only available on microfilm and was later published in November 1978. Scarce thesis copy..

Salem, MA: Salem Press, 1894. reprint edition. Originally appearing in Proceedings of the AAAS, Vol. XLII, 1893. Original blue printed wraps. Signed by "Compliments of C. L. Doolittle" front cover. 8vo. pp. [ii], 31-49. VG+. Toned cover with shallow edge chips and one closed tear, internally fine. Scarce signature..

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution , 1973. Illustrated by b/w charts and readings, sky maps. First edition. Publication No. 630, Department of Terrrestrial Mangnetism. White printed wraps. 4to. pp. ix, 178. Appendices. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Technical markings: rear pocket only flaw, never borrowed..

Oslo: Jacob Dybwad, 1946. Edited by The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo. Illustrated by 62 text figures of b/w photos, line drawings and charts. First thus edition. Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi I Oslo. Brown original printed wraps, uncut & unopened. 8vo. pp. 497, [1] colophon. Near Fine. Light cover soil, spine starting to peel. Entire Volume 4, text in English. (Postage as two books)..