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 ...