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McMath, Robert R. THE TOWER TELESCOPE OF THE McMATH-HULBERT OBSERVATORY
1937 first edition. Publications of the Observatory of the University of Michigan volume VII no. 1. tall 4to. Later plain wraps. 56p. Double page foldout pictures of the Tower Telescope as frontispiece. Eighteen fullpage bw photo illustrations on glossy stock, most showing details of the telescope. A few text illus. VG. pictures available on request. (a103153)
$250.00Earl of Rosse. ON SOME RECENT IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THE MOUNTINGS OF THE TELESCOPES AT BIRR CASTLE
London 1879 first edition. Harrison and Sons. 4to. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society of London. Removed from larger binding. Later plain wraps. pp. 153-60 with 3 fullpage engraved plates . Near Fine. no owner marks. clean. (a103672)
$65.00Preston, E. D.. ON THE VARIATION OF LATITUDE AT WAIKIKI, NEAR HONOLULU HAWAIIAN ISLANDS FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE IN COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL GEODETIC ASSOCIATION 1891, 1892
Washington 1893. Octavo, pp. 53-159, tables, photo plate (telescope), foldout charts, rebound in later wraps. VG. (a53228)
$49.00 Ward, The Hon. Mrs. . THE TELESCOPE: A FAMILIAR SKETCH COMBINING A SPECIAL NOTICE OF OBJECTS COMING WITHIN THE RANGE OF A SMALL TELESCOPE
London 1899 3rd Groombridge. Hardcover. 12mo., 150pp., frontis, color plates, bright blue gilt decorated cloth. All edges gilt. One old school stamp on title page. Good,later endpapers, faint residue of spine label, two spots of ink stain on front. Good plus. (a71030)
$125.00 Bray, William Bayley . MEASURING DISTANCES BY TELESCOPE
London 1862 Minutes of Institution of Civil Engineers. Octavo, pp.34-47, removed and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a73846)
$40.00Volpicelli, Paolo et al. ATTI DELL' ACCADEMIA PONTIFICIA DE' NUOVI LINCEI - TOMO I. ANNO I. 1847-48
Roma 1851 first edition. Folio. Original plain blue paper wraps. (with tiny stamp of Lincei on front.) 201p. In Italian. Three plates on heavier stock: one a fine engraving of a saint writing in a book titled "Sapientiae Cupidi", a fullpage engraving of a telescope; a doublepage foldout map "Carta Geologica della Valle Latina da Roma a Montecassino." Contributors include: Paolo Volpicelli, Ignazio Calandrelli, Barnaba Tortolini, Giuseppe Ponzi, others. Near Good, cover worn, backstrip chipped; binding secure; occasional light foxing (also some light foxing on all 3 plates). no ownership marks. (a89910)
$290.00 Herschel, William . EXPERIMENTS FOR ASCERTAINING HOW FAR TELESCOPES WILL ENABLE US TO DETERMINE VERY SMALL ANGLES, AND TO DISTINGUISH THE REAL FROM THE SPURIOUS DIAMETERS OF CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL OBJECTS
London 1805 first edition. Extracted from Philosophical Transactions , 1805 part 1. pp. 31-64 with one fullpage engraved plate. 4to. Title continues "...With an Application of the result of these experiments to a series of Observations on the Nature and Magnitude of Mr. Harding's lately discovered Star...read December 6, 1804". Bound in later wraps. Plate has slight bit of foxing in margins only . Otherwise book is Fine. no ownership marks. (a91461)
$600.00 Spencer Jones, H . LARGE TELESCOPES INCLUDING THE 200 INCH REFLECTOR (article contained in single complete issue of Proceedings of the RoyaI Institution of Great Britain vol XXIX part III no. 138)
London 1937 first edition. Royal Institution. Spencer Jones article on pp. 420-431 with 3 fullpage photo illustrations. Article in one complete issue of Proceedings for Dec 11, 1936. Octavo. Original printed wraps. VG plus. (a91569a)
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