Space & Aviation Memorabilia - April 2002 Day 1

"Le Spectacle Du Ciel" by A. Focillon (1888 first printing, hardbound,in French, 216pp.). A classic work on observational astronomy with n...

"The New Astronomy" by Samuel Pierpont Langley (1888, hardbound, 260pp.). A wonderful well illustrated work written by one of the greatest...

"Determination of the Solar Parallax and Mass of the Moon" being two mammoth hardbound volumes summarizing observations made in 1888 and 1...

1889//1919, The Moon An interesting duo of early scientific works on technical aspects of the moon researched at the time. They are "The Temper...

Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy, Volumes 1 and 2 Complete, (1891 first printing, hardbound, 1300 pp. combined). A detailed and mathematica

1896, "The New Astronomy" by Samuel Pierpont Langley (hardbound, 260pp). An interesting book with a good number of illustrations which pre...

"Other Worlds Than Ours" by Richard A. Proctor, both the authorized edition and the new edition (1896, both hardbound, 334 pp. and 318 pp....

"Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets" by Simon Newcomb assisted by Frank Ross. (...

"Meterorites" by Oliver Farrington (1915, hardbound, 226pp.). This volume relates the "structure, composition and terrestrial relatio...

"Investigations of Gravity and Isostasy" by William Bowie (1917, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey publication, softbound, 196pp.). An early ...

"An Introductory Treatise To Physical Astronomy" by Meyer and Schwalbe (1921, hardbound, in German, 530pp.). A classic work on planetary a...

Einstein's Theory of Relativity Lot of two soft bound books in Russian being the first Russian edition of the Theory published in 1921 (151 pp.)...

1922//1925, The Theory of Relativity Lot of three early works on the theory of relativity with two being descriptive rather than mathematical and writ

"The Depths of the Universe" by George Ellery Hale (1924, hardbound, 98pp.). A well illustrated book by one of the 20th century's grea...

Two Books by Robert A Millikan Lot of two hardbound books written by the great scientist including "The Electron" (1924 second edition, Un...

"On the Structure of the Universe" by C.V.L. Charlier (1925 Hitchcock Lectures at Berkeley, softbound, 60pp.). An important lecture on the...

"The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics" by Max Planck (1931, hardbound, 120pp.). Books by the physicist widely accepted as the found...

"Kosmos" by Willem De Sitter (1932, Harvard University Press, hardbound, dust jacket, 138pp some dust jacket tearing). A series of six lec...

"Physique De La Planete Mars" by Gerard De Vaucouleurs (1951, softbound, in French, 422pp., ex libris University of London). Early work by...

"Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies" by Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs (1964 first edition, hardbound, 268pp.). This is the Harv...