(Galileo). Vanturi, Cav. Giambatista. MEMORIE E LETTERE INEDITE FINORA O DISPERSE DI GALILEO GALILEI Ordinate ed Illustrate con Annotazioni ... Opera destinata per servire di supplemento alle principali Collezioni sin qui stampate degli scritti di quell’ insigne Fiolosofo. Modena Per G. Vincenzi e Comp. 1818.
2 vols. in 1. Sm. 4to. 280pp. + [iv]. + 367pp. + [iii]. Port. frontiss., 8 folding plates, 4 un-numbered plates. Some mainly marginal staining, some browning, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt rule edged raised bands with gilt lettering to spine.
£480.00 [ref: 193332]

Bryant, Robert. THE ORBIT OF THE PLANET SAPPHO (80). Waterlow & Sons Limited 1889.
1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 126pp. + [i]. Ex.-lib. with bookplate and occasional sm. ink stamp, original cloth backed boards soiled and rubbed, lightly faded spine sl. chipped.
£30.00 [ref: 178329]

Cape Observatory. ANNALS of ... Volume VIII (in 8 parts). Observations of Major Planets Made with the Heliometer at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, During the Years 1897 to 1904; Researches on Stellar Parallax Made with the ...; Observations of Major Planets ...; Results of Meridian Observations of the Sun, Mercury and Venus ... 1907 to 1911; Results of Meridian Observations of the Sun, Mercury and Venus ... 1912 to 1916; Obsevrations of Major Planets .. During the years 1911 to 1921; Occultations of Stars by the Moon ... in the Years 1907 to 1922; Determination of the Elements of the Moons Orbit, the Patrallactic Inequality and the Moon’s Semidiameter From Occultations of Stars by the Moon ... in the Years 1800 to 1922. Under the Direction of Sir David Gill. Edinburgh HMSO 1909-25.
8 parts in 8 vols. Thin 4to. 1 plates. Some creasing, ex.-lib. with ink stamps, chipped with loss, lower wrapp to part 2 detached, original wrapps., creased, backstrips with some loss.
£30.00 [ref: 191891]

Drayson, Major-General A.W. DRAYSONIA Being an Attempt to Explain and Popularise the System of the Second Rotation of the Earth as discovered by the late ... Also giving the probable date and duration of the last glacial period, and furnishing General Drayson’s data, from which any person of ordinary mathematical abilty is enabled to calculate the obliquity of the eliptic, the precession equinoxes and the right ascension and declination of the fixed stars for any year, past, present or future by Admiral Sir Algernon F.R. de Horsey. Longmans, Green and Co. 1911.
1st Ed. Slim 8vo. [x] + 76pp. Numerous figures and tabled including 1 folding, with large folding diagram at rear. Original cloth lightly soiled with gilt title to spine.
£25.00 [ref: 188897]

Flammarion, Camille. HISTOIRE DU CIEL. Dessin par Benett. Paris Bibliotheque D’Éducation et de Récréation ... 1872.
Royal 8vo. 467pp. + [i]. Additional ills. t.p., 20 plates, folding celestial chart, numerous ills. Some very light browning, marbled e.ps., ex.-libris Pantelleonis Leonidæ Argenti Chiensis, contemporary half morocco with dec. boards, gilt lettered spine with sl. rubbed raised bands, t.e.g.
£100.00 [ref: 194712]

Fontenelle. ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITÉ DES MONDES. Précédés DE L’ASTRONOMIE DES DAMES par J. de Lalande. Paris: Chez Janet et Cotelle ... 1826.
2 parts in 1. [iv] + xvi + 396pp. 2 plates. French text. Ex.-lib. with 2 ink stamps to t.p., lib. label to front pastedown, some sporadic light spotting, marbled e.ps. and edges, hinges reinforced, morocco backed marbled boards with sl. wear to corners, gilt filleted raised bands dec. gilt compartment gilt title and lib. stamp to spine.
£140.00 [ref: 189289]

Gill, Sir David. CAPE ASTROGRAPHIC ZONES Catalogue of Rectangular Co-Ordinates and Diameters of Star-Images Derived from Photographs Taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Commenced Under the Direction of ... Completed and Prepared for Press Under the Supervision of S.S. Hough. With a Preface by Sir David Gill. Zone - 41 .... Zone - 51. HMSO 1913.
11 vols. [Complete] 4to. Light browning, several vols. with hinges cracked, ex.-lib. with ink stamps, original gilt lettered cloth, spines sl. bumped.
This catalog contains positions, precessions, proper motions, and photographic magnitudes for 20,554 stars. These were derived from photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope between 1923 and 1928. It covers the astrographic zones -40 degrees to -52 degrees of declination. The positions are given for epoch 1900 (1900.0). It includes spectral types for many of the stars listed. It extends the earlier catalogs derived from the same plates to fainter magnitudes.
£225.00 [ref: 190492]

Gunther, Robert T. THE ASTROLABES OF THE WORLD Based Upon the Series of Instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, With Notes on Astrolabes in the Collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr S.V. Hoffman, The Mensing Collection, and in Other Public and Private Collections. OUP 1932.
1st Ed. 2 vols. 4to. xvii + iii + viii + 609pp. Port. frontis., 154 plates including some double page and folding, 218 figures. Dampstained to tail of leaves and with residual wrinkling and occasional signs of adhesion with plate 39 torn across and with loss to tail, very light marginal browning, ex.-lib., nicely rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, dec. gilt motifs and gilt lettering to spines.
Limited to 250 Copies. Vol. 1 includes a facsimile reprint of "Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed for Shah Sultan Husain Safawi, king of Persia, by William H. Morley. London, Williams and Norgate, 1856." (p. 1-49). Includes index and bibliographical references. Robert Theodore Gunther (23 August 1869 – 9 March 1940) was a historian of science and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
£500.00 [ref: 174473]

Moore, Francis. VOX STELLARUM: Or, a Loyal Almanack for the Year of Human Redemption 1793. Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Returns, the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars, and other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon’s Age and a Tide Table ... With farther Observations on the Weather, Rain &c. and on the new-discovered Planet. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers ... 1793.
12mo. 48pp. Rubric t.p. with ink stamp, 4 figures. Interleaved with blanks, new e.ps., rebound in modern plastic covered boards.
£150.00 [ref: 194849]

Nichol, J.P. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS. London: John Parker 1850.
Large 8vo. xxii + 242pp. + [iv] adverts. Frontis., engraved t.p., 20 astronomical plates including 7 double-page, 11 other plates and several figures. Margins lightly browned with some occasional spotting to plates, sm. ownership signature to top edge of t.p., later e.ps., sl. faded and rubbed original blind embossed cloth sl. bumped to corners, gilt title to sl. faded spines bumped and chipped at head and tail.
£68.00 [ref: 187421]