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American Home Library Company, 1902. Book. READING COPY ONLY. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Cloth rubbed, label remnants on fly, Hollywood library stamps to title page. Bookplate of astrologer Anna Crawford Graning inside cover. Part Two only..

New York: American Home Library Company, 1902. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum research library, minimally marked/stamped, little actual wear, clear-coated spine panel (slightly toned). A few light surface marks, lightly rubbed extremities. 463 pp., b&w author's portrait as frontis., illus. w/ figures set into text. Title page lettered primarily in red..

Smith Press, 2007-03-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia, PA: Blanchard & Lea, 1861. New Edition (4th) . Hardcover. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 557pp.incl.index + fold-out&plates; HB maroon w/gilt; rubbed w/edges&corners worn; heavy sun on spine w/frayed edges; ft.&bk.endpapers torn out; bleed-thru on title; clean,tight pgs. "Several alterations and additions are made in this Edition ... to bring it up to the actual state of astronomical discovery. The elements of four new planets (Parthenope, Egeria, Victoria, and Irene) have been added, ... " illus.

Philadelphia, PA: Blanchard & Lea, 1861. 557 pp. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Title rubbed. Corners bumped. Wear to extremities. Binding is scuffed. Foxing throughout. Previous owner's name in pencil on fpde. Marginal notes in pencil on ffep. Illust. w/ numerous plates and wood-cuts.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. In Outlines of Astronomy, Herschel provides an important review of what was known of the physical world in the mid-nineteenth century. His textbook appeals to both the general and the specialist reader as it discusses a range of phenomena, from Earth's basic characteristics to planetary perturbations and sidereal astronomy.

London.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.. New edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy (spine lightly sunned).. 4to.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1951. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This fourth edition is in good condition. Chipping present to the edges of the boards and rubbing to the spine. Bookplate on the inside cover. The pages remain in very good order, excellent for their age.

LONDON: LONGMANS GREEN AND CO.. BOUND IN VIOLET CLOTH, WITH SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE BUT WHICH HAS CLEAR GILT LETTERING, THIS DATED 1878 HARDCOVER 10TH EDITION IS VG. XXV111/753pp+20 B/W ASTRONOMICAL PLATES. WITH THREE PREFACES AND 18 CHAPTERS, PLUS TABLE OF NUMBERS IN FREQUENT USE AMONG ASTRONOMERS, MANY DIAGRAMS SET IN TEXT AND INDEX. SLIGHT CREASING OF CLOTH TO FOOT OF SPINE, AND MINMAL WEAR TO CORNERS. SIGNATURE OF LATE OWNER ROBERT SNOWBALL (1879), OF KENSAL GREEN, OTHERWISE ALL VG . Very Good. Hardcover. 10th Edition. 1878.

Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1853. Houzeau & Lancaster 9077. 8vo. pp. xvi, [17]-557 + 16(ads). 5 lithographed plates (incl. frontis.) & 1 folding lithographed chart. original blind-stamped cloth (chipping to extremities & front joint, dampstain to outer margin of 4 plates ñ just entering image on 2)

Philadephia: Blanchard and Leas, 1853. Octavo. 557 pages, 16pp ads, illustrated, (1) chart, 5 plates (including frontispiece) and drawings within the text. When Herschel published his work on natural philosophy in 1830, he was already the major scientist in England. While astronomy was his major subject, he also made advances in mathematics and other scientific endeavors. Physical astronomy does not give "either the evidence of a beginning, or the prospect of an end" of our system, said Herschel, quoting the words of the Uniformitarian geologist James Hutton. Yet we have no reason to believe that the system is eternal, and indeed the elliptical state of the earth indicates at least a primitive state which allowed some freedom of movement for the original materials to arrange themselves in this shape. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind, spine lettering gilt and decorated in blind, chipping to spine ends, corners worn, two previous owner's names, one dated 1856 the other dated 1950… Read More

London: Longman et al, 1850. 3rd edition. Updated and with a new preface by Herschel.. 8vo xvi+661+ five plates from engravings of astronomical features and one foldout diagram of planetary perturbations at rear. Numerous illustrations in text from charts, diagrams and drawings.Contemporary full leather binding, gilt lines and richly. gilt decorated spine. Rebacked with original spine laid down. All edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Foxing to prelims and plates at rear. A very nice copy..

Moscow: Kratkov and Co, 1862. Cloth. Very Good. [4], v, 343, [1] pages plus 3 plates. 8vo. Blue cloth. Volume 2 ONLY. "Sir J. Herschel's copy, with Herschel Library stamps on title and half-title pages." Red and gold foil ticket of Dr. Sydney Ross on front pastedown. An uncut, unopened example. Cloth. The translation into Russian of Sir John Herschel's 'Outlines of Astronomy'. Ross,Dr. Sydney, Catalogue of the Herschel Library #1505 notes only the 1863 edition in 2 volumes. Rare. Transliteration based on spine labels and typed card laid in similar to those found in other Collingsworth volumes handled by Ross. Note: the three plates are marked Plate II, IV, and VII (apparently as published and noted in the index of plates opposite on page [344].