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Skywatching - A Nature Company Guide
David H. Levy
ISBN: 086438811X
Reader's Digest Ltd Sydney, Australia 1998 Reprint
Dust jacket protected with new plastic covering. Laminated Pictorial Boards 288 pages. With many colour photographs and illustrations. Gives a complete tour of skies - from our solar system and deeper into the galaxies. As New
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: S001741 Bookseller: Leura 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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Coming-Of-Age in the Milky Way
Ferris, Timothy
ISBN: 0-370-31332-1
the Bodley Head London 1989 First British Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 1.0 kg; 496 pages, includes glossary, a brief history, chapter notes, bibliography, index, photographs, diagrams, charts, and illustrations. Darkening of the edges of the text block through age, and a small stain affecting only the top edge of the text block. Digital image available upon request. From Aristotle's crystalline celestial spheres to the latest quantum theories of the evolution of the universe, humankind has sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the long-awaited new book by award-winning science writer Timothy Ferris, is the story of that quest. Its eloquent, evocative narrative stretches from late prehistoric times when, writes Ferris, "the skies of our ancestors hung low overhead" down through Copernicus and Newton and Einstein to today's "supersymmetry" theories of spacetime. It interweaves majestic themes of astronomy, physics, religion, and philosophy with fresh and lasting portraits of the men and women who created what has been called our society's most priceless treasure its conception of the universe at large." -- front fold over blurb. This book weighs more than 1.0 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside Australia. Astronomy Good
Price: 22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213477 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Astronomical Photography at the Telescope
RACKHAM, Thomas (1919 Jul 7 - 2001 May 15)
ISBN: 0-571-04770-X
Faber & Faber London 1972 Third Edition, Revised and Res
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 550 g; 280 pages, illustrated throughout with charts, diagrams, and 10 black-and-white photographs, includes appendices, glossary, references, and index. Original bookseller's rubberstamp at the lower right-hand corner of the front endpage, along with the original receipt dated 1975. Aside from a slight darkening of the edges of the text block, the book is in extremely good order. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213478 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Dyna-Soar : Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System
Godwin, Robert [ Editor ]
ISBN: 1-896522-95-5
Apogee Books -- Collector's Guide Publishing Ontario, Canada 2003 First Edition
Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall Paperback 900 g; 448 pages, includes CD-ROM. Text is illustrated with numerous charts, pictures, drawings, and facsimiles. Colour illustrated card wrapper. Originally proposed in 1934 it had the potential to be the ultimate super weapon. Space Technology Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213509 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Seeing and Believing; the Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe
Panek, Richard
ISBN: 0-670-87628-3
Viking New York 1998 First American Edition
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hardcover 250 g; 198 pp., illustrated dustwrapper, bibliography and index. Those expecting a glossy full colour tour of space are in for a disappointment. Not one picture. The entertaining and well written text more than makes up for the lack of pictures, and takes us from the first telescope through to the Hubble Satellite scope, as it attempts an overview of the telescope with an emphasis on its cosmological implications. Science Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213518 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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the planets; portraits of new Worlds
Henbest, Nigel
ISBN: 0-670-83384-3
Viking London 1992 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall Hardcover 1.2 kg; 208 pages, including statistics, index. Magnificently illustrated with colour photographs, and black-and-white photographs and line drawings. The first time in history, astronomers have detailed views of all nine planets circling the sun, from Mercury to remote Pluto. This new astronomical portrait gallery also includes enticing images of a myriad of smaller bodies in our part of the universe. This is the first book to bring together these new images with a non-technical text. This book weighs more than 1.0 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside Australia. Astronomy Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213535 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Traveller’s Guide to The Solar System
Miller, Ron and Hartmann, William K.
ISBN: 0-333-32694-6
Macmillan London 1981 First British Edition
Oblong Quarto Hardcover 850 g; 192 pages, including for the reading list, index, glossary, and statistics. The book is a melange of brilliantly executed colour drawings by Ron Miller, black-and-white photographs, colour photographs, and maps etc. There is a very slight rubbing at the head and tail of the backstrip section, and traces of foxing to the top edge of the text block. Digital image available upon request. Astronomy Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213538 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Higher Than Everest; an adventurer’s guide to the solar System
Hodge, Paul
ISBN: 0-521-65133-6
Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2001 First Edition
Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall Hardcover 950 g; VIII, 248 pages, last page blank, includes index. Colour illustrated dust jacket, the bottom edge of the rear panel has started to peel. Digital image can be provided upon request. Contrasting places on earth with the places throughout the solar system, the author takes us on a tour of the most spectacular sites in the solar system. This book weighs more than 1.0 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside Australia. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213541 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Stars & Planets; a viewer’s Guide
Roth, Gunter D.
ISBN: 0-8069-9906-3
Sterling Publishing Company New York 1998 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback 650 g; 176 pages, the paperback wrapper opens out into a triple page illustration at the front, and a double page at the back, the book is indexed, has a glossary, and has numerous tables charts drawings, as well as photographs, many of them overlaid so as to identify constellations.. Astronomy Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213545 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Planets beyond; Discovering the Outer Solar System
Littmann, Mark
ISBN: 0-471-61128-X
Wiley Science Editions New York 1988 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 900 g; XVI, 288 pages, last two pages blank, includes endnotes, chronologies, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index. Text is illustrated with 30 colour plates (over eight pages,) and has numerous black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout the text. The photographic illustrated dust jacket has no damage. However in protecting the book, the previous owner used as adhesive tape which has leaked and stained the top of the front and rear endpages. Digital image available upon request. Astronomy Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213552 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Lifting Titan’s Veil; Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn
Lorenz, Ralph & Mitton, Jacqueline
ISBN: 0-521-79348-3
Cambridge University Press Cambridge, England 2002 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 650 g; VIII, 264 pages, last four pages blank, includes appendix, bibliography and Internet resources, index. There are numerous black-and-white photographs throughout the text, as well as charts, tables, line drawings etc, as well as eight pages of photographs, and artist's impressions. The authors describe our current knowledge of Titan, from its discovery in 1655, up to the present day. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213554 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Comet of the Century: From Halley to Hale-Bopp
Schaaf, Fred
ISBN: 0-387-94793-0
Copernicus Books New York 1997 First Edition 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 900 g; XVI, 384 pages, different endpage maps, 16 pages of black-and-white photography, eight pages of colour photography, numerous line drawings, and tables throughout the text, appendices, glossary, bibliography, general index. Photographic illustrated dustjacket. Aside from handling marks to the text block edge in very good order. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0213975 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Modern Adventures in Air and Space
Lamb, G. F.
George G. Harrap London 1964 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 350 g; 192 pages, text illustrated with some photographs, and black-and-white drawings. Includes glossary. The dust jacket is rubbed, and chipped, with a 1.5 inch tear at the lower left-hand corner of the front panel, a 0.75 inch tear at the top fold over crease, a 0.33 inch tear at the bottom front fold over crease, 2 0.5 inch tears on the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a 0.75 inch tear on the top edge of the rear panel. It is with the modern period of this present book deals. It covers some of the most courageous exploits of the last war, and some of the striking jet plane and rocket plane achievements which have been seen since the war; and it tells the story of recent space exploration. There is also a chapter devoted to some notable parachuting experiences. Digital image available upon request. Aviation Reasonable for Age
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0214023 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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War in Space
Flynn, Nigel
Golden Press Pty Limited Drummoyne, New South Wales 1986 First Edition
Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall Laminated Illustrated Boards 750 g; 104 pages indexed, with glossary and further reading list. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, colour photographs, and black and white and colour "artist's impressions". There is a slight bump to the bottom edge of the front board, and the dustwrapper is slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the backstrip section. An analysis of the Star Wars race by the superpowers in the mid-80s. Warfare Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0214043 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Comets: Vagabonds of Space
Seargent, David A.
ISBN: 0-86824-066-4
Doubleday Australia Pty Limited Sydney 1982 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Black Cloth White Boards 500 g; XX, 236 pages, last two pages blank, appendices, glossary, index. 13 figures in text, 15 black-and-white plates. Rubbing to the inside edge of the front board bottom edge, stain from a price sticker on the front endpage, offset tanning of pages 160/161 from a newspaper clipping, and also there is a news paper clipping on page 161 that has been stuck in with tape. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed on the edges. The book concerns itself with the anatomy of comets, their discoveries, orbits, and origins, followed by a section on famous comets. Astronomy Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0214052 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Iron Sun; Crossing the Universe through Black Holes
Berry, Adrian
ISBN: 0-224-01357-2
Jonathan Cape London 1977 First British Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Blue Boards 425 grammes; 176 pages, acknowledgements, introduction by author, 3 appendices, glossary, references and notes, bibliography and index. Light grey coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black-and-white line drawings and illustrations. Blue coloured boards with gilt writing on spine and small gilt printers' cartouche to the lower edge. Blue coloured tint to the top paper edge. Light bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. Some rubbing to the top book edge and a shelfwear to the lower. Browning of the paper edges. Browning to the internal pages as well. Previous owners name has been placed to the top right-hand corner of the free front endpaper and then has been scrubbed out in black ink. Photographic dustwapper ( wraparound ), showing the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, with white and blue writing on the front panel and the spine. Small white printers' cartouche to the lower spine edge. Very light rubbing and shipping to the dustwapper corners and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the spine. Some scuffing of the book panels. Clipping of the dustwapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. A little bleeding of the book colour to the lower dustwapper edge on the verso. " This book is an attempt to solve what will be one of the most formidable problems of future pages, the feasibility of travel to the stars." -- from the introduction page 11. Digital image available upon request. Astronomy Average
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0104605 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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