New York: R. Worthington and Co., 1875. Second American edition. Hardcover. The 1874 and 1882 transits of Venus—when that planet crossed the face of the sun as seen from earth—were major astronomical events and they spurred many expeditions to view the phenomena. This book gives a history of the previous.....
Price: $250
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Hardcover. x, 272 pages. A decent quality facsimile of the 1674 third edition. Fine hardcover; no jacket as issued.
Price: $20
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp.....
Price: $150
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 749 pages. Reproduced from typescript. First edition (first printing). Near find hardcover.
Price: $25
London: Variorum Reprints, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 350 pages including an index. A reprint of 22 separately paginated articles and papers by King about Islamic astronomical instruments. One in French, one in German, one in Arabic; the rest in English. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates. An uncommon and out-of-print.....
Price: $150
Edinburgh: Stirling & Slade, 1821. Leather bound. Three volumes. A mixed set: Two-volume second edition of the text: octavo; [4], vi, 350; [4], ii, 334 pages. One-volume first edition of the plates: quarto, entitled Plates Illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy; and of the Twelve Supplementary Chapters by David Brewster. Edinburgh: John.....
Price: $450
London: J. Nourse, 1750. First Edition. Leather bound. "The whole translated from the French... by John Robertson." Octavo. xii, 390, [2 (advertisements)] pages, plus 10 folding engraved plates, woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Lacaille was a French astronomer known for his intensive interest in calculation and observation. The heart.....
Price: $750
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 258 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $30
![Greenwich Observatory [Three volumes, complete]. Eric G. Forbes, A. J. Meadows, Derek Howse](/pictures/thumb/35301.jpg?v=1598070972)
London: Taylor & Francis, 1975. Hardcover. "Three volumes by different authors telling the story of Britain's oldest scientific institution, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, 1675–1975. Volume 1: Origins and Early History 1675–1835; xv, 204 pages. Volume 2: Recent History, 1836–1975; xi, 135 pages. Volume 3: The Buildings and.....
Price: $125
Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1979. Hardcover. Second edition, revised. x, 689, plus 80 black-and-white plates. Text in German. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of short edge tears.
Price: $50
Kassel: Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 263 pages. Kataloge der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel Bd. 38. Exhibition catalog of scientific instruments, with most plates in color. First edition (first printing). Near fine in illustrated boards; no jacket, probably as issued.
Price: $50
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 77 pages; plus two plates showing equipment and a large fold-out plan of the Sydney Observatory. Includes reports on the calculation of the longitude of the observatory in Sydney and extensive tables of mean right ascensions and north polar distances of.....
Price: $100
Berlin and London: Ferd. D. Dümmler and Asher & Co., 1865. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 559 pages. Translated by the author from the second German edition. Brunnow was a German astronomer who served as the director of the Detroit Observatory from 1854 to 1863, where he introduced advanced European.....
Price: $125
![The Search for Life in the Universe [Inscribed]. Donald Goldsmith, Tobias Owen](/pictures/thumb/9082.jpg?v=1597798868)
Menlo Park, CA: The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1980. Trade paperback. 436 pages. Foreword by Carl Sagan. Second printing. Very good to near fine in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed to the Harvard paleontologist and National Book Award-winning writer Stephen Jay Gould. "To Steve Gould, with best wishes. Don Goldsmith."
Price: $40
