Astronomy & Planetary Sciences

Brooke, Timothy Young. Near-infrared Polarimetry and Spectroscopy of Comets. Stony Brook, New York: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988. 4to (large book). x, [1], 104 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. A dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Space Sciences (Astronomy). Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, on front flyleaf, on title page and verso; barcode label and stamp on rear flyleaf, stamps inside rear cover. #26907. $35
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Chiu, Hong-Yee, and Amador Muriel, editors. Galactic Astronomy. Proceedings of the Summer Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Summer 1968. Volumes 1 and 2. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1970. 1st printing. 2 volumes (ix, 334 pages. Illustrations. ix, 300 pages. Illustrations.). Volume 1: Very good hardcover. Edges slightly worn. Volume 2: Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #19831. $70
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Gassman, G. J., editor. The Effect of Disturbances of Solar Origin on Communications. Papers presented at the Symposium of the Ionospheric Research Committee AGARD Avionics Panel, Naples, Italy. New York: A Pergamon Press Book / Macmillan, 1963. 1st printing. x, 349 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. AGARDograph, 59. Published for and on behalf o Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Very good hardcover in original acetate wrappers. #23090. $30
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Gebbie, Katharine B., editor. The Menzel Symposium on Solar Physics, Atomic Spectra, and Gaseous Nebula in Honor of the Contributions Made by Donald H. Menzel. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 8-9, 1971. 1969. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1971. x, 203 pages. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. National Bureau of Standards Special Publication, 353. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23079. $20
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Groth, H. G., and P. Wellman, editors. Spectrum Formation in Stars with Steady-State Extended Atmospheres. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 2, Commission 36, Munich, Germany, April 16-19, 1969. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1970. x, 332 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. National Bureau of Standards Special Publication, 332. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23078. $20
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Gyldenkerne, Kjeld. A Three-Dimensional Spectral Classification of G and K Stars. Kobenhavn: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1964. Small 4to (medium-large book). 56 pages. Bibliographical references. Matematisk-fysiske Skrifter udgivet af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Bind 2, nr. 9. Good hardcover: unbound scholarly paper bound in library pamphlet binder. Exlibrary: spine labels, stamp inside front cover; strip of paper on rear flyleaf. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24008. $150
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Hack, Margherita, and Constanze la Dous. Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, 1993. 4to (large book). xc, 767 pages. Index. Bibliographic references. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Monograph Series on Nonthermal Phenomena in Stellar Atmospheres. NASA SP-507. Cataclysmic variable stars. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27629. $90
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Hess, Wilmot N., directed by. 1967 Summer Study of Lunar Science and Exploration. Held at the University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, July 31-August 13, 1967, under the Auspices of Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA. Preface by Homer E. Newell. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1967. 4to (large book). vi, 398 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Folding map inside rear cover. NASA SP-157. Folding map: M. H. Carr, 'Preliminary Photogeologic Map of the Alphonsus Region of the Moon,' 1966. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27669. $90
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Hoskin, M. A. William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens. With astrophysical notes by Dr. D. W. Dewhirst. London: Oldbourne, 1963. 199 pages. Bibliographical notes. Illustrations. Oldbourne History of Science Library. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #24458. $22.50
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Johnson, Hollis R., and Francois R. Querci. The M-Type Stars. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch; Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1986. 4to (large book). lxxxii, 502 pages. Index. Bibliographic references. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Monograph Series on Nonthermal Phenomena in Stellar Atmospheres.. NASA SP-492. Good hardcover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27660. $40
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Jordan, S. D., and E. H. Avrett, editors. Stellar Chromospheres. The proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Colloquium held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, February 21-24, 1972. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1973. ix, 318 pages. Bibliographic references. Illustrations. NASA SP-317. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27962. $15
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Kurth, Rudolf. Introduction to Stellar Statistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. viii, 175 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, 10. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0080012418. #23082. $32.50
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Lunar Science Conference, 5th, Houston, Texas, 1974. Proceedings of the Fifth Lunar Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 11-22, 1974. Volume 1: Mineralogy and Petrology. Volume 2: Chemical and Isotope Analyses, and Organic Chemistry. Volume 3: Physical Properties. Edited by Wulf Achim Gose. New York: Pergamon Press, 1974. 3 volumes (3,134 pages total). Lunar Sample, Subject and Author indexes (in volume 3). Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of The Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society, Supplement 5. Sponsored by The NASA Johnson Space Center and The Lunar Science Institute. Reports of the congress on lunar geology and cosmochemistry. Very good pictorial hardcover books. ISBN 0080183182. #23069. $150
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Lunar Science Conference, 7th, Houston, Texas, 1976. Proceedings of the Seventh Lunar Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 15-19, 1976. Volume 1: Regolith Studies. Volume 2: Petrogenetic Studies of Mare and Highland Rocks. Volume 3: The Moon and Other Bodies. Edited by R. B. Merrill. New York: Pergamon Press, 1976. 3 volumes (3,650 pages total). Lunar Sample, Subject and Author indexes (in volume 3). Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of The Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society, Supplement 7. Sponsored by The NASA Johnson Space Center and The Lunar Science Institute. Reports of the congress on lunar petrology and the moon. Very good pictorial hardcover books. ISBN 0080217710. #23070. $150
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 9th, Houston, Texas, 1978. Proceedings of the Ninth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 13-17, 1978. Volume 1: Petrogenetic Studies: The Moon and Meteorites. Volume 2: Lunar and Planetary Surfaces. Volume 3: The Moon and The Inner Solar System. Compiled by the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Edited by R. B. Merrill. New York: Pergamon Press, 1978. 1st edition. 3 volumes (3,973 pages total). Lunar Sample, Heavenly Body, Subject and Author indexes (in volume 3). Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of The Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society, Supplement 10. Sponsored by The NASA Johnson Space Center and The Lunar Science Institute. Reports of the congress on the moon, planets and meteorites. Very good pictorial hardcover books. ISBN 0080229662. #23072. $225
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 10th, Houston, Texas, 1979. Proceedings of the Tenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 19-23, 1979. Volume 1: Meteorites and Lunar Rocks. Volume 2: Early Solar System and Lunar Regoliths. Volume 3: Planetary Interiors and Surfaces. Edited by R. B. Merrill. New York: Pergamon Press, 1979. 1st edition. 3 volumes (3,077 pages total). Lunar Sample, Heavenly Body, Subject and Author indexes (in volume 3). Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of The Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society, Supplement 11. Compiled by The Lunar Science Institute. Reports of the congress on lunar geology, the geology of the planets, and the solar system. Very good pictorial hardcover books. ISBN 0080251285. #23073. $125
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 11th, Houston, Texas, 1980. Proceedings of The Eleventh Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 17-21, 1980. Volume 3: Physical Processes. Edited by R. B. Merrill. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980. Volume 3 only. ix, pages 1777-2502, xxiii. Lunar Sample, Heavenly Body, Subject and Author indexes (for volumes 1-3). Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of the Geochemical Society and The Meteoritical Society: Supplement 14. Very good hardcover. Edges and corners slightly bruised. ISBN 0080263143. #19920. $82.50
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Lunc, Michal, G. N. Duboshin, W. F. Hilton, and A. Jaumotte, editors. Astrodynamics. XVI International Astronautical Congress, Athens, 1965. Proceedings. Paris: Gauthier-Villars / Dunod & New York: Gordon & Breach & Warszawa: PWN - Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966. vii, 455 pages. Bibliographical references. Very good hardcover in frayed, chipped and slightly torn dust jacket. Former owner's name inside front cover. #23322. $70
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Mampaso, A., M. Prieto, and F. Sanchez, editors. Infrared Astronomy IV: Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1st edition. xi, 415 pages. Illustrations. Good hardcover. Backstrip slightly scuffed and torn. ISBN 0521464625. #19996. $52.50
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Manchester, Richard N., and Joseph H. Taylor. Pulsars. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1977. 1st printing. 281 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. A Series of Books in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0716703580. #23085. $15
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Mattison, Hiram. A Primary Astronomy for Schools and Families. Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, and Illustrated by Nearly Two Hundred Engravings. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1878. 12mo (small book). 168 pages. Illustrations. Noted on title page: Corrected in 1873. Good hardcover. Paper-covered boards with taped spine, front and rear covers worn, soiled and rubbed; internally very good. #26406. $20
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Mendell, Rosalind, and Allen I. Mincer, editors. Frontiers in Cosmic Physics. Symposium in Memory of Serge Alexander Korff. New York, N.Y.: New York Academy of Sciences, 1992. 1st printing. xiii, 364 pages. Index of contributors. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 655. Result of a symposium sponsored by the Physics Department of New York University and held on September 13, 1990, devoted to the memory of Serge Alexander Korff, 1906-1989, with discussions of cosmic rays, geophysics, neutrinos, astronomy and astrophysics with electromagnetic radiation, astronomy from exotic places, and cosmology. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0897667220. #23077. $17.50
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office. The Space Telescope. Author's summaries of their papers on the Space Telescope presented at the 21st annual meeting of the American Astronautical Society at Denver, Colorado, August 26-28, 1975. Foreword by Noel W. Hinners. Preface by M. J. Aucremanne. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1976. xi, 231 pages. Index. Bibliographic references. Illustrations. NASA SP-392. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27963. $15
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Neugebauer, G, and R. B. Leighton. Two-Micron Sky Survey: A Preliminary Catalog. Foreword by John E. Naugle. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Technology Utilization, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1960. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). v, 309 pages. Bibliography. Bibliographic references. Tables. NASA SP-3047. This catalog, giving sources of emission in the 2.2 micron region for over 5000 stars, represents a systematic survey of the Northern Hemisphere for stars brighter than third magnitude. - Foreword. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #28101. $17.50
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Nieto, Michael Martin. The Titius-Bode Law of Planetary Distances: Its History and Theory. New York: Pergamon Press, 1972. 1st edition. xii, 161 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author. International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, 47. This book covers in detail both the history and the astronomy behind the Titius-Bode Law of Planetary Distances. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. ISBN 0080167845. #27496. $85
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Office of Space Science and Application. Optical Telescope Technology. A workshop held at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, April 29-May, 1969. Foreword by John E. Naugle and Oran W. Nicks. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Technology Utilization, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1970. Small 4to (medium-large book). xii, 783 pages. Bibliographic references. Photographs. Illustrations. NASA SP-233. Good soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27982. $25
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Ogelman, H., and J. R. Wayland, editors. Lectures in High-Energy Astrophysics. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Technology Utilization, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1959. v, 165 pages. Bibliographical references. NASA SP-199. Prepared by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Contributors are H. Ogelman, C. Fichtel, R. Ramaty, E. Boldt, D. Wentzel, J. R. Wayland, E. C. Roelof, and L. W. Bandermann. Good pictorial soft cover. Former library copy with usual stamps. #27519. $27.50
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Rickert, Russell K. Astronomy and Space Exploration. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1974. vii, 342 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Addison-Wesley Series in Physics. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23080. $25
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Schwarzchild, Martin. Structure and Evolution of the Stars. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1963. 3d printing. xvii, 296 pages. Index. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #21580. $37.50
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Xanthakis, John N., editor. Solar Physics. Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute Conference, Athens, September 12-26, 1965. London: Interscience Publishers, 1967. xvi, 535 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #23083. $30
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