Category: Astronomy

APPARENT RIGHT ASCENSIONS OF ADDITIONAL TIME-STARS 1881-1884 With Mean Places for 1884.0

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Washington, Bureau of Navigation : 1882

Seller ID: 002261

Binding: Wraps

A Supplement to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for 1884. Introduction by Simon Newcomb. 61 pp. Salmon colored wraps with black lettering. ex. mus. numbers on front top corner edge, otherwise no markings. Mild soil to covers. 3 small areas of paper spine worn off, very minor. Otherwise exterior is Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+
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ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE YEAR 1870 AT UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1873

Seller ID: 002771

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good- to Fair

Some articles covered: THE TRANSIT CIRCLE, THE MERIDIAN TRANSIT INSTRUMENT, THE MURAL CIRCLE, THE EQUATORIAL, and METEORS 1870. Appendices: REPORT ON THE DIFFERENCE OF LONGITUDE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ST. LOUIS, by William Harkness; REPORTS ON OBSERVATIONS OF ENCKE'S COMET DURING ITS RETURN IN 1871, by Asaph Hall and Wm. Harkness, with 1 plate; ON THE RIGHT ASCENSIONS OF THE EQUATORIAL FUNDAMENTAL STARS AND THE CORRECTIONS NECESSARY TO REDUCE THE RIGHT ASCENSIONS OF DIFFERENT CATALOGUES TO A MEAN HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM, by Simon Newcomb, WASHINGTON ZONES; ZONES OF STARS OBSERVED AT THE NAVAL OBS...
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ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE YEAR 1872 AT UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY

Price: $73.50

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1874

Seller ID: 002772

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Some articles covered: THE TRANSIT CIRCLE, THE MURAL CIRCLE. METEORS OBSERVED IN 1872. Appendices: TABLES OF INSTRUMENTAL CONSTANTS AND CORRECTIONS FOR THE REDUCTION OF TRANSIT OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY, and REPORT ON THE DIFFERENCE OF LONGITUDE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND DETROIT, MICHIGAN; CARLIN, NEVADA AND AUSTIN, NEVADA by John R. Eastman; Binding is Good. Fraying to spine ends. 1/2"x1/4" missing piece at spine's top edge. ex.-mus. small paper label at spine's base. Faded spine, and worn along joints/gutters. Gilt lettering on spine faint. Minor scuffing/scratch...
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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY during the years 1851 and 1852

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, : 1867

Seller ID: 002774

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

652 pp. Paper wraps with linen spine. Top right front corner torn, creasing and tears to corners, dirt smudges. Ex. mus. stamp and numbers on front cover and title page. Interior clean.
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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY during the years 1862

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1863

Seller ID: 002777

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good-

699 pp. Paper wraps are chipped, worn, lower front corner is significantly creased, bumped and torn, wear to joints, spine ends are bumped. Ex. library with bookplate on front free endpaper, layin before title page. Interior pages are browning along edges, some creased corners. Book in Good- condition.
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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY during the years 1879-1890, 12 Volumes

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office

Seller ID: 002780

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

12 consecutive years in 12 volumes. 1880 Appendix: Great Comet of 1882. 1881 Appendices: Orbits of Oberon, Titania, and Neptune's satellite. 1882 Appendices: Orbit Iapetus, the outer satellite of Saturn, Annular Eclipse of the Sun March 13-16, 1885 with fold-outs and Flexure of Meridian Instruments. 1883 Appendices: Six Inner satellites of Saturn; Observations for stellar parallax; and Observatory Temperature Room and Competitive Trials so Chronometers in 1884 and 1886, including Plates, some of them fold-outs. 1884 Appendix: Catalogue of Stars observed at the United States Naval Observatory d...
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOR 1900

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philosophical Society of Washington : 1901

Seller ID: 002957

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Bulletin, Vol..XIV, pp. 93-138. most pages' top edge uncut so interior is Fine. Articles on HYDRODYNAMICS by R.A. Harris; PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS by C.F. Marvin; TIDES by L.P. Shidy; ACOUSTICS by C. K. Wead and METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT OF FORCE OF GRAVITY ON THE OCEAN By G.W.Littlehales. Salmon colored covers slightly soiled. Spine faded and mildly chipped.Bottom front cover edge one small tear and corner tip missing. Overall exterior is VG. Interior is clean, tight and Near Fine.
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REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE YEARS 1883-1914. 22 Reports.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office

Seller ID: 002948

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good or Better

For the years: 1883,1884,1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905,1907 and 1914. 22 individual years. Some articles (Appendices) include: Report on Methylated Spirits & Glucose (1883), Report on the National Surveys and Signal Service (1884), Report on the Astronomical Day,The Eclipse of the Sun in 1886, and The Erection of a new Naval Observatory (1885), Report on Opium, 1887 and Report on the International Astronomical Congress, Held in Paris, April, 1887.(1887), Preliminary Report on the Investigation of the North Magnetic P...
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SCIENCE RECORD (Formerly Scientific and Literary Gossip), Three Issues 1883-1884.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Boston, S. E. Cassino & Co. : 1883

Seller ID: 003104

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

A monthly journal of Notes and News in all departments of Science. 3 issues: Dec.15,1883 (Vol. 11, No.2); Jan.15, 1884 (Vol.II, No. 3) and Oct.15,1884 (Vol.II, No.12). Articles include: A NEW MICROSCOPE SLIDE CABINET, RESEARCHES ON BACTERIA, MICROSCOPY, SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS IN EASTERN UNITED STATES, BATS, CALIFORNIA SPIDERS, BIRDS, CRUSTACEA, ROCK SECTIONS, WINES, and HARMONY OF THE SPHERES. Jan.1884 issue pages mainly uncut. Illustrations, including publisher advertisements. Paper covers mildly soiled, string-tied. Oct.1884 issue's covers detached from text with tears, still intact. Overall...
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SCIENCE, August 14, 1885. Volume VI. No. 132

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003189

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good+

Some articles include: "Official Scrutiny of the U.S. Coast-Survey"; "The British Museum of Natural History" by Frederick W. True with a full page illustration of the Main Facade of the Museum on Cromwell Road; "Immortality in modern thought" by Joseph Le Conte; "Vegetable Morphology a Century Ago-Goethe" by T.H. McBride; and "An Attempt to Photograph the Solar Corona Without an Eclipse" by Wm. H. Pickering. Also included Letters to the Editor and Notes and News. Famous Americans in publication: Frederick William True; and Joseph LeConte. Tiny chipping a...
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SCIENCE, August 31, 1883. No. 30.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1883

Seller ID: 003361

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Articles: Notes on the Geology of the Troad, by J.S. Diller; Occurrence of Mound-Builders Pipes in New Jersey, by Charles C. Abbott with an illustration; The Igloo of the Innuit. -III. with 9 illustrations; Minnesota Weather; Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geology of Philadelphia by Henry Carvill Lewis; The Iroquois Book of Rites; The Evidence for evolution in the history of the extinct Mammalia with a table; A classification of the natural sciences by T. Sterry Hunt with a table; Orbit of the great comet of 1882 by Edgar Frisbie; The tornado at Racine, May 18, ...
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SCIENCE, December 18, 1885. Volume VI. No. 150

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003246

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

With Science Supplement. Some articles: "The Meeting of the American Public Health Association"; "The government and its scientific bureaus" and "Methods of teaching political economy". Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor: "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; LESTER F. WARD "A National university"; P. J. FARNSWORTH "The English sparrow"; and WILLIAM FERREL "The temperature of the moon". In Science Supplement:.I. C. RUSSELL "North Carolina coal-fields"; "Laying a Cable" (joining the two islands Mart...
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SCIENCE, January 16, 1885. Vol. V. No. 102

Price: $42.50

Publisher: Cambridge, MA,, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003154

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good-

Articles by Famous Americans: JOHN TROWBRIDGE "Recent advances in electrical science"; J. W. POWELL "The administration of the scientific work of the general government"; J. R. BARTLETT "Some recent experiments with oil in stopping breakers"; ADOLPH F. BANDELIER "Bandelier's Archeological Tour in Mexico" with illustration of " The Great Mound at Cholula"; and BENJAMIN GOULD "The Argentine Zone Catalogue" with 2 illustrations of " Dr. Gould's Observatory at Cordoba" and "View of Corboba from Dr. Gould's Observatory" also in Letters...
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SCIENCE, March 13, 1885. Volume V. No. 110

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003159

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good-

Some articles: "The Solar Eclipse of March 16" with illustration; "The Hudson-Bay Expedition of 1884" by Wm. P. Anderson with 2 illustrations and foldout "Chart showing the track of the 'S.S. Neptune' Hudson's Bay Expedition 1884"- Chart is 13"x10"; "The Annisquam Seaside Laboratory"; and "The Prehistoric Congress at Lisbon". Some soiling to paper covers. Side edge with tears. Some chipping to bottom edge. Small watermark at top edge, barely goes through. Covers intact. Overall exterior is Good to Good-. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Foldout ...
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SCIENCE, March 20, 1885. Volume V. No. 111

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003161

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Articles by Famous Americans: JOHN TROWBRIDGE " The Jefferson physical laboratory"(at Harvard University) with engraving of the facility and 4 layout diagrams; JOSEPH F. JAMES "Evidences of beaches in the Cincinnati group" with one illustration; and DAVID P. TODD "Researches in stellar parallax"with one illustration. Other articles: "Coffins of the Seventh Century" with one illustration and under Notes and News, a paragraph on a "new loud-speaking telephone" with an illustration of one. Under Letters to the Editor, a short paragraph from D.P.TODD "So...
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SCIENCE, November 27, 1885. Volume VI. No. 147

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003244

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

With Science Supplement. Article by or about Famous Americans: ASA GRAY "Dr. Asa Gray's seventy-fifth birthday" with illustration; ERNEST INGERSOLL "The plains of British America"; and E. J. JAMES "NEWCOMB's Political Economy". in Science Supplement: JAMES B. ANGELL "A need for a careful study of the history of China"; and H.M. PAUL "Stars in Rapid Motion" with table. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front cover and front page of Supplement. vertical crease, doesn't go through interior. Slight chipping at edges. 6" tear at spine. Overall c...
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SCIENCE, October 15, 1886. Volume VIII. No. 193

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1886

Seller ID: 003657

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Articles by Famous Americans in Letters to the Editor: J. E. OLIVER: Education and the cost of living; H. CARVILL LEWIS: The genesis of the diamond; WILLIAM NORTH RICE: The eccentricity theory of the glacial period; H. W. WILEY: Unexplained noises; and EDWARD S. HOLDEN: How astronomers may work. Other articles:"The mounting of Mungo"( African elephant) with 4 illustrations; " A few words about pavements"(Fifth Ave, New York) with 4 illustrations; and "Washington's signature" with 8 different "examples". ex.mus.numbers on front cover. mildly soiled. watermark at ...
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SCIENCE, October 30, 1885. Volume VI. No. 143

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003230

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Good+

With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: F.W. PUTNAM "Man and the mastodon" (found in Worchester County, Mass.). In Letters to the Editor: ALPHEUS HYATT "Cruise of the Arethusa"; and EDWARD S. HOLDEN "The care of pamphlets". In Science Supplement:" The Nordenfelt submarine boat" with illustration. Other articles: "The International Geological Congress at Berlin"; " Localization of Functions in the Brain"; plus "Geographical Notes" (Lieut. H.T. Allen's expedition to Copper or Atna River and Lieutenant Cantwell's exploration ...
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SCIENCE, September 4, 1885. Volume VI. No. 135

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003197

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good-

Articles about/or by Famous Americans: In Letters to the Editor:R.P. WHITFIELD "An American Silurian scorpion"with illustration; CHAS. A. ASHBURNER "The geology of natural gas"; and R. W. SHUFELDT "Probable period of gestation in the 'horned-toad'. Other articles: " The Lick Observatory" with 5 illustrations; and "The Development of the Eye" with 2 illustrations. ex. mus. stamp on front cover. Covers detached. Front cover is Good to Good+. Back cover with tears and missing pieces, Good-. Crease down middle. Interior is tight, clean and VG.
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SIMON NEWCOMB. Memorial Addresses

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philosophical Society of Washington, : 1910

Seller ID: 002972

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

Memorial Addresses by Charles K. Wead, James Bryce, Milton Updegraff, R.S. Woodward, L.O. Howard, Herbert Putnam, and E.M. Gallaudet. Resolutions Read by O.H. Tittmann. Read before Philosophical Society of Washington, December 4, 1909. Bulletin, Vol. XV, pp. 133-167. pages uncut. mildly faded/soiled covers. ex.-mus stamp and number on front cover, otherwise in VG condition. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Frontis. portrait of Newcomb.
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Category: Astronomy