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Edmond Halley
Armitage Angus
Thomas Nelson London 1966 First Edition
8vo Hard Cover 220 pp, b/w illustrations, foxing on edges and eps, closed tear on d/j front Very Good
Price: 40.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 39482 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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The Eternal Subject
Trench Brinsley Le Poer
ISBN: 0285620827
Souvenir Press London 1973 First Edition
8vo Hard Cover 200 pp, b/w illustrations, d/j price-clipped and scuffed on front and along the edges Very Good
Price: 35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 76954 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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UFO Sightings
Baker Alan
ISBN: 0752817280
Millennium/Orion London 1997
Mass Market Paperback 297 pp Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 79545 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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The Observer’s Book of Manned Spaceflight
Turnill, Reginald
ISBN: 0-7232-1510-3
Frederick Warne and Co Ltd London: New York 1972 First British Edition
24mo - up to 5 ¾" tall Blue Boards 150 grammes; 192 pages, last blank, list of colour plates, acknowledgements, introduction by author, list of abbreviations, space logs and index. Illustrated end papers, both different, front endpaper: -- showing how communications were organised when man landed on the moon, the rear endpaper: -- showing typical space suits for both internal and external operations. The text is illustrated with 14 coloured plates and over 70 black-and-white illustrations. Blue coloured boards with white writing on the front panel and spine. A little bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. Some browning to the top paper edge paper edge. Photographic front cover, showing Sky lab, against a white background with black and red writing on the front panel and spine. Little rubbing to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. The top and bottom dustwapper edges are a little rubbed and creased. The white of the background has become a little yellow. A small book on manned spaceflight. Part of the " The Observer's book of " -- series, this being number 44. Digital image available upon request. Transport Reasonable
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0104751 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Short History of Astronomy from Earliest Times Through to the Nineteenth Century
Berry, Arthur
ISBN: 0486202100
Dover Publications New York 1970 Reissued
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback 550 g; XXXII, 442, 18 pages (the last being a catalogue of selected Dover books); includes general index, index of names, authorities and books for students, and illustrated with 104 text figures and diagrams, some being reproductions of art works, some of photographs. In original illustrated paperback binding. Slightly rubbed across the top edge, otherwise without damage. This Dover edition was first published as an unabridged and unaltered republication except for the substitution of new portraits of those in the original edition, which was published in 1898. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0224139 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Visions of Heaven: The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Wilkie, Tom & Rosselli, Mark
ISBN: 0340717343
Hodder & Stoughton London 1998 First Edition
Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall Hardcover 1.1 kg; 208 pages, illustrated with black-and-white photography, drawings, and colour photography. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The book shows no signs of damage. Brilliant photography. The book combines remarkable pictures with a concise narrative to relate the thrilling and moving stories hidden in them. Astronomy -- Photography Very Good
Price: 22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0224341 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.
ISBN: 0593015185
Bantam Press London 1989 Reprint
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 500 g.; X, 198 pages, aknowledgements, introduction by Carl Sagan, aknowledgements, glossary and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Ron Miller. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and discoloration to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and faint foxing to the top text block edge. Very light age toning to the internal text. Colour photographic dustwrapper, of Stephen Hawking, against a gray coloured background with black and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and some browning of the dustwrapper panels. Remains of a sticker can be seen to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. Browning to the top edge of the dustwrapper. A history of time, in laymans' language. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science -- Cosmology Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107691 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
Ley, Willy
Chapman & Hall London 1954 Third Printing
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 750 g; XII, 436 pages, and illustrated with XXII black-and-white photographs, and 64 line drawings, but I am unable to locate the folding atmospheric chart "located in the back of the book", having performed a page by page search, and failed to find any trace, or indication of its existence. The book is indexed, it has appendices and notes by Doctor Werner Von Braun as well as an extensive bibliography. There is on the front end page a gift inscription dated 1958 from mum and dad . The dust jacket is slightly darkened on the spine section, and has a short tear with associated chipping at the top left hand corner of the rear panel. Otherwise in very good condition. A digital image can be provided to confirm condition. "The author of this book, who was an early member of the German rocket Society, gives a fascinating account of the past, present and future of Rockets. With Teutonic thoroughness he begins with the ancient Greeks and seems to omit no scrap of knowledge he possesses." -- front fold over blurb Aeronautics -- Space Very Good
Price: 32.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0225012 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Calendar : The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
Duncan, David Ewing
ISBN: 1857027213
4th Estate London 1998 First Edition
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hardcover 500 g; XXII (including a timeline), 360 pages, illustrated with bibliographical note, and index. The illustrations are line drawings in black-and-white. Colour illustrated dustwrapper over original hardcover binding. The book shows no signs of damage. This is the first complete history of the calendar, and in it are tales of science, religion, superstition and politics of many ages from ancient Egypt to the flowering of Indian and Islamic civilisations. (And onwards). physics -- Time Very Good
Price: 22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0224597 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Guide to the Moon
Moore, Patrick
Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1953 Second Impression
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 390 g.; VI, 7-224 pages, aknowledgements, foreword by H. Percy Wilkins, list of plates, list of figures, four appendices, index to formations referred to in the text, and general index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing the full moon. The text is illustrated with 12 black-and-white photographs and 13 black-and-white figures -- all within the text. At the rear of the text is a four panelled foldout of the Moon and its features, with a guide to its features. Loosely inserted in to the book is a black-and-white photograph, taken 19/11/58, of Alfons. Black coloured cloth boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and some bumping to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Marking and some fading to the cloth of the book. Light browning and some foxing to the text block edges. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and browning to the internal text. Gift inscription to the top left-hand corner of the free front end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper, with red and yellow background and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. The dustwrapper is in sad shape. Heavy rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. There is a small piece missing from the top backstrip edge. Numerous small tears with creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges and there are two large tears to the top dustwrapper edge measuring 2.5 " each. There is a tear to the lower edge of the rear dustwrapper panel measuring 4.5 " with associated creasing. A 1.25 " tear to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel has also associated creasing. There is a hole in the rear spine hinge, 4 inches from the lower dustwrapper edge. Rubbing and a little fading to the dustwrapper panels. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over panel, lower right-hand corner. A small tear to the lower edge of the front fold over panel with associated creasing. Browning to the dustwrapper fold over panels and there is staining and marking to the verso of the dustwrapper. A previous owner has supported the more serious tears with tape, tape still in situ, again to the verso of the dustwrapper. One of the England's Premier astronomers looks at the Moon -- in the early 1950s. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Astronomy Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107872 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Something New under the Sun; Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
Gavaghan, Helen
ISBN: 0387949143
Copernicus Books New York 1998 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo 1/4 Cloth and Boards 675 g.; XX, 300 pages, preface by author, aknowledgements, chronology, notes and sources and index. Dark blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white photograph throughout the text. 1/4 dark blue coloured cloth backstrip with gilt titles. 3/4 dark blue coloured board. A few dust marks to the top text block edge. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue background and yellow and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hint of ruffling to the dustwrapper edges. A history of the earliest satellites, and how scientists "... turned the dreams of science fiction writers into indispensable technology." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science -- Cosmology Very Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107878 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Evening Star; Venus Observed
Cooper, Henry S. F., Junior
ISBN: 0801849349
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London 1994 First Paperback Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Paperback 370 g.; XIV, 306 pages, last six pages blank intentionally, preface by author, maps and index. At the rear of the book 6 maps of Venus taken by the Magellan spacecraft . Illustrated front cover, with yellow and green titles to the front panel and peach and blue titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the other book edges. Handling marks to the lower text block edge and a little age toning of the other text block edges. In this book the author describes the spacecraft Magellan and its flight to our nearest planet neighbour -- Venus. He describes the launch and work of the scientists that kept the spacecraft on its course and of the information that is has sent back to earth about the "Evening Star". Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107884 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Unfolding Universe
Moore, Patrick
ISBN: 071812152x
1982
Hardcover Ex lib Noted astronomer explains about advances in astronomy over the last 25 years Very Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: s14887 Bookseller: Tony Henderson
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The southern sky
wood Harley
Angus and Robertson 1967
Hardcover ex lib . Good
Price: 11.00 (AUD)
Book Number: s14708 Bookseller: Tony Henderson
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History of NASA; America’s Voyage to the Stars
Dewaard, E. John & Dewaard, Nancy
ISBN: 0861241827
Bison Books Greenwich, Ct. 1984 First Edition
Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Black Cloth 192 pp., index; numerous monotone, and colour photographs, and illustrations; colour illustrated dustwrapper. " Going beyond the record of man's accomplishments to date, it covers the speculations of manned probes of the solar system, where there may conceivably be life in some form & the further possibility of traveling beyond our solar system to the stars. " Aeronautics Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0204110 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Operation Morning Light; Terror in Our Skies, the True Story of Cosmos 954
Heaps, Leo
ISBN: 0709203233
Paddington Press Ltd New York 1978 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Blue Boards 208pp., acknowledgements, glossary, sources and index. Light blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, and flight path of Cosmos 954. Red coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and dust marks to the top paper edge. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a picture of Canadian wilderness, with orange, yellow and white writing on front panel and orange and white on the spine. A 0.5" tear on the rear, top back spine gutter and a small amount of chipping on the bottom edge of the dustwrapper is present. Slight fading as well. Previous owners trading on the ffep. In December 1977 a Soviet satellite -- Cosmos 954 -- started to malfunction and fell to earth over Canada. This is a story of that accident and the tri - nation (Canada, Russia, United States) cover-up. Digital image available upon request. Aviation -- History Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0101697 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Stars of the Southern Heavens
Nangle, James
Angus and Robertson Sydney 1958 Fourth Edition
Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Navy Blue Cloth VIII, 129 pages, indexed. Illustrated dustwrapper, six maps, six pages of black-and-white photographs. Previous owner's name on front end page, dustwrapper chipped and creased, with most of the damage occurring on the bottom edge. Top edge of book slightly dusty. The author was government astronomer of New South Wales, and the work of revision for the fourth edition of his book has been done by the present holder of that office. Important features of the revision include the substitution of a new chapter for that on the Milky Way and the addition of chapters on the planets and on radio astronomy. Astronomy Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0205458 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Mars Beckons: the Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space
Wilford, John Noble
ISBN: 0394583590
Alfred A. Knopf New York 1990 Stated First Edition
quarto - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Ochre Cloth black Boards 245 pages, illustrated dustwrapper, text illustrated with drawings, reproductions of paintings, and photographs, appendix, bibliography, index. Sticker residue mark on front end page, watermark (stain) on the underside top edge of the front panel, some pencil marks parallel to the text throughout the book. The author begins with a discussion of the history of man's relationship with Mars. He traces and fascination with this planet from the earliest written Babylonian records of 3000 years ago, through the planetary theories of Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell. He then focuses, with superb reporting and the most informed speculation, on our future designs on the planet, probing the possibilities of colonisation and the natural resources that Mars offers. Reasonable
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0205590 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Man on the Moon
The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd Melbourne 1969 First Edition
Quarto - up to 12" tall - Quarto Photographic Card 64pp. Illustrated end boards, both different, front board illustrated with photograph of the Moon and of salient sites pertaining to Apollo 11 mission, rear card shows photograph of lunar surface. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photography, black-and-white illustrations and line drawings. Photographic front cover showing an astronaut (? Neil Armstrong) on the moon, with white writing on the front panel. The book is slightly scuffed and rubbed and there is rubbing along the book edges. Slight creasing to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. A souvenir pamphlet/booklet on the first landfall on the Moon made by Apollo 11. Pamphlet Good for Age
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102137 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Barnett, Lincoln
Victor Gollancz Ltd London 1953 Fourth Impression
12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo Red Cloth 112pp., foreword by Albert Einstein, acknowledgement, reading list and index. Text is illustrated with black-and-white technical drawings and line drawings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Bumping to the head into the heel of the spine and there is browning and foxing to the paper edges. Original bookseller's sticker on the front page down, lower right-hand corner. Very faint offset tanning visible along with foxing spots. Occasional pencil mark in the text. Plain text dust wrapper with bone coloured background and green and black writing on the front panel and spine. Dust wrapper corners are rubbed and slightly chipped and there is darkening to the spine and front panel and along the fold over edges. Foxing marks and other marks and noted on the dustwrapper panels and there is slight chipping to the top dustwrapper edge along some creasing. Foxing noted on that for so side of the dustwrapper and there is a 0.25 " on the lower front spine gutter edge. On the rear panel there is a number of which has been stamped -- No. "312537". Dustwrapper is priced clipped, front fold over lower righthand corner. The author attempts "...to describe the universe as it now appears in the light of modern scientific and cosmological theory.". Science Reasonable
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102181 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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From Nucleus to Universe; A Course of Selected Lectures in Physics and Astronomy
Butler, S.T. and Messel, H. (editors)
Shakespeare Head Press Sydney 1960 First Edition
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Maroon Cloth 336pp., last blank, preface by editors, contributors of lectures. The text is illustrated by and white photographs, graphs and diagrams. Maroon coloured boards with gilt writing on the front panel and spine. Bumping to the corners of the book, bottom worse than top, and to the head and to the heel of the spine. Some marks to the cloth of the book and our dust marks to the top paper edge. Offset tanning to the endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing nebulae against a blue background, with white writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwappper is very rubbed and faded. There is chipping to the dustwrapper edges, corners and spine edges being particularly affected. There is a 1" tear to the top back spine edge. "The lectures contained in this book form a course given at the Third Nuclear Research Foundation Summer School for Science Teachers, held at the University of Sydney, 11-22, 1960.". Science Reasonable
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102203 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Cosmic Impact
Davies, John Keith
ISBN: 0-312-17024-6
St Martin's Press New York 1986 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Black Cloth 450g; 197 pages, + 3 Blank; appendices, bibliography, index, eight pages of black-and-white photography, various tables, maps, and diagrams all in black and white. Cosmology Good
Price: 17.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 0208656 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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In Quest of Telescopes
Cohen, Martin
ISBN: 0-933346-25-5
Cambridge University Press & Sky Publishing Corporation Cambridge, Massachusetts 1980 First Edition First Printing
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Black Cloth XII, 131 pages, text illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, and some line diagrams; indexed, illustrated dustwrapper. On the title page a book plate has been placed by the publisher showing joint publication By Cambridge University Press And Sky Publishing Corporation immediately below the words first edition. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0208672 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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L’asronimie Moderne
Tocquet, Robert
Les Productions De Paris Paris 1965 Probable First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Blue Cloth 598 pages, includes glossary, index of names, bibliography, photographic credits, and a correction slip pasted in on the index. Colour plate tipped to the front board, text illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, and line drawings original white ribbon place marker is still present. Foxing of the top and front edges of the text block. Internally clean and well bound. This book weighs more than 1 Kg. Please enquire as to the extra postage costs for delivery outside Australia with the vendor by pressing "Ask the bookseller a question". Astronomy Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0210137 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Looking for Earths; The Race to Find New Solar Systems
Boss, Alan
ISBN: 0-471-18421-7
John Wiley & Sons New York 1998 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 600 g; XII, 244 pages, last four pages blank, includes list of acronyms, bibliography, index. The text is illustrated with diagrams, and black and white photographs. Colour illustrated dust jacket. "Beginning with the first widely heralded discoveries of planets outside the solar system decades ago, Looking for Earths tells the story of the cyclical hope and despair as astronomers searched for irrefutable evidence of other planets, leading to the surprising triumphs of 1995-1996 and the dazzling prospect for discovering and earthlike planets in our lifetime." -- from the preface Astronomy Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213359 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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