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3. Barnard, Edward Emerson
A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, 1927.
Part I: Photographs and Descriptions. Part II: Charts and Tables.
Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1927. Edition: 700.
1st vol.: 32 pp. and 51 tipped in gelatin silver prints plates.
The first extensive star atlas to incorporate actual photographs.
2nd vol.: 2 pp. of introduction and 50 charts with corresponding tables.
$20,000
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4. Barnard, Edward Emerson
Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume XI: Photographs of the Milky Way and Comets Made with The Six-inch Willard Lens and Crocker Telescope during the Years 1892 to 1895.
Sacramento: University of California, 1913. Original black cover over pasteboard with gilt letter on cover and spin. 129 collotype plates accompanied by charts with exposure times. 46 pp.
$1,200
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5. Flammarion, Camille
Les Terres Du Ciel, description astronomique des planetes qui gravitent avec la terre autour du soleil, 1877.
(Worlds of the Sky, astronomical description of the planets that gravitate around the Sun with the Earth) Paris, 1877. Many in text illustrations plus full-page gravure illustrations plus 2 original Woodburytype photographs of the moon by Lewis Rutherfurd and James Nasmyth.
Illustrated paper wrappers.
$550
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6. Giono, Jean
Les Poids du Ciel. (The Weight of the Sky), 1938.
Gallimard, 1938. First edition with 32 astrophotographs by M. de Kerolyr. No. 4110 in an edition of 6000. Finely printed full page photo-illustrations bound in. Stiff paper illustrated wrappers.
$300
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7. (Henry, Paul and Prosper), Mouchez, Ernest Barthelemy.
La photographie astronomique a L'Observatoire de Paris et la carte du ciel.
(Astronomical Photography from the Paris Observatory and a Map of the Heavens) Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887. A rare pioneering work on stellar photography by Admiral Ernest Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory. With photographs taken by the Henry brothers on their photographic telescope, including three heliogravure plates (one folding), four original photographs with overlay keys, and some wood-engraved illustrations in text. Rebound in red leather over original wrappers. Admiral Mouchez's equatorial photographic telescope was specifically constructed to create his photographic map of the heavens. It was possible to photograph extremely faint stars with the newly developed silver bromide-gelatin plate. The first photograph, which serves as a frontispiece, is of the lunar surface in the region of the crater Eratosthenes. The second is of the Hercules cluster. The third photograph is a time-lapse series of images of Jupiter, showing the rotation of the red spot. The fourth is of Saturn and its rings and of Jupiter and its bands. 8vo (180 x 128mm), pp. 107
$6,500
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8. Keeler, James Edward.
Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume VIII: Nebulae and Clusters, 1908.
Sacramento: University of California, 1908.
Original black cloth over pasteboard with gilt letter on cover and spin. Includes 70 heliogravure plates of Keeler's photographs showing the existence of previously unrecorded nebulae and their spiral structures.
$2000
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| SPACE EXPLORATION |
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16. Gutschewski, Gary L., Kinsler, Danny C., Witaker, Ewen
NASA (SP-241) Atlas and Gazetteer of the Near Side of the Moon, 1971.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, NASA SP-241, 1971.
538 pp. Blue-gray hardbound folio, with 404 halftone reproductions, many charts and an alphabetical index of Lunar features.
$450
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18. NASA. Gemini Program, Flight Summary Report, 1966
Gemini Missions I - X, September 1966
60 pp. Including covers. With tables,
charts, and text from Gemini Missions.
Iinitials PK on front cover in red marker, three Test Operation Manager's signatures on inside cover page in black ink.
$250
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19. Soviet Space Program
Soyuz-9, Presentation Album. From the crew of the Soviet Spacecraft, June 1970.
Hardcover presentation album dedicated to the Soviet spacecraft, Soyuz-9, June 1970. Includes 12 pages of mounted vintage gelatin silver and chromogenic prints of the Soyuz-9 craft and crew.
$750
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