Aspects of Astronomy in America in the Nineteenth Century

New York: Arno Press, 1980. Ex-Library. Good. Cloth. Facsimile. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-institutional library, with stamps, call number, and card pocket remnant to inside front. Else clean, solid, undamaged copy. 418pp in various paginations. Contains facsimile reproductions of John Quincy Adams, An Oration Delivered Before the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, 1843; The Centenary of the Cincinnatir Observatory, 1943; Edward Everett, The Uses of Astronomy, 1856; J. Melville Gillis, Report on the Erection of a Building in Washington as a Depot for Charts and Instruments, 1845; Willis Milham, Early American Observatories, 1938; Joseph Everett Nourse, Memoir of the Founding and Progress of the United States Naval Observatory; G. Edward Pendray, How Telescopes Came to America, 1935; Truman Henry Safford, A Discourse Read June 25, 1888 to Commemorate the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Dedication of the Hopkins Observatory of Williams College, 1888..