Chertok, Boris. ROCKETS AND PEOPLE. Creating a Rocket Industry Hot Days of the Cold War; The Moon Race. NASA Washington January 2005-11.
4 vols. Ills. Original pictorial wrapps.
Translated from the original Russian, Chertok not only describes and reflects upon his experiences, but he also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society’s quest to explore the cosmos.
£90.00 [ref: 293803]

European Space Agency. 50 1964-2014 THE ESA EFFECT. Serving European Cooperation and Innovation. European Space Agency 2014.
1st Ed. 4to. Profusely ills. in colour. Very good in d/w.
£75.00 [ref: 293790]

Fortescue, Peter; Swinerd, Graham and Stark, John. (Editors). SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING. John Wiley & Sons Ldt. 2011.
4th Ed. Royal 8vo. xxxii + 691pp. + [iii]. Numerous figures and tables. Very good in original white lettered black & brown coloured pictorial laminated boards.
£35.00 [ref: 293733]

Harris, Joseph. THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE GLOBES, AND THE ORRERY. To which is prefix’d, by Way of Introduction, a Brief Account of the Solar System. London: Printed for B. Cole ... 1751.
7th Ed. viii + 190pp. + [ii] publ. advert. leaf. 7 folding plates. With the signature of Rob. Wetherell, some sporadic light browning and spotting throughout, couple of corners sl. creased, 15 cm circular light brown stain to fore edge of p.95-100 not affecting text, hinges and joints cracked but boards firm, contemporary specked sheep scuffed to edges, corners worn, joints sl. chipped, gilt ruled raised bands and gilt motifs to spine worn at head, lacking leather title label to spine.
ESTC T113353. Joseph Harris 1704-1764, Assay master of the mint. On his monument in Talgarth church it is said that ‘he invented many mathematical instruments.’
£225.00 [ref: 287855]

Huggins, M. William. ANALYSE SPECTRALE DES CORPS CÉLESTRES. Traduit de l’Anglais par M. l’Abbé Moigno. Paris, Gauthier-Villars ... 1866.
1st French Ed. Thin sm. 8vo. 59pp. 17 figures. French text. Some light browning, institutional ink stamp to t.p., chipped wrapps., crudely rebacked in tape.
£15.00 [ref: 239696]

Mailer, Norman. MOONFIRE. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11. Introduction by Colum McCann. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Directed and Produced by Benedikt Taschen. Taschen 2019.
50th Anniversary Ed. 4to. 349pp. Profusely ills. mainly in colour including several folding. Very good in d/w.
Sumptuous publication.
£35.00 [ref: 293789]

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.
1st Ed. 12mo. 48pp. Rubric t.p. with ink stamp, 4 figures. Interleaved with blanks, new e.ps., rebound in modern plastic covered boards.
£40.00 [ref: 194849]

Needham, Joseph; Gwei-Djen, Lu; Combridge, John H. and Major John S. THE HALL OF HEAVENLY RECORDS. Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks 1380-1780. CUP 1986.
1st Ed. Slim Royal 8vo. xxii + 201pp. + [i]. Frontis., 51 figures with many from photos. Sm. ownership inscription, good in lightly browned d/w.
Monograph No. 25.
£25.00 [ref: 290550]

Peake, Tim. LETTERS. Limitless The Autobiography. Century 2020.
1st Ed. xviii + 477pp. Profusely ills. in colour. D/w.
Signed by the Author to title page.
£25.00 [ref: 293798]

Pearson, Neil (Editor). APOLLO VII-XVII. Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer. With a Special Foreword by Apollo 7 Astronaut Walt Cunningham. TeNeues 2021.
4to. 320pp. Profusely ills. including many colour. Original pictorial boards.
£25.00 [ref: 293791]