Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1849. First American Edition. Thick octavo; recent blue cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; 620,[32](ads)pp.; lithographed frontispiece and six leaves of plates including one folding, additional text illus. throughout. Textblock a bit toned, old tape repair to final leaf of text (publisher's ad)..... More
![Item #27150 A Treatise on Astronomy [Series title: The Cabinet Cyclopaedia]. John F. W. Herschel](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27150.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691183602)
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's purple cloth, printed paper spine label (original price 6s.); 16,viii,422pp.; engraved title page and three leaves of plates bound in rear. Corners bumped, cloth extremities toned, spine rather mottled, else a Very Good, sound example in..... More
Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Logsdon to former Aviation Week editor Jim Asker with brief inscription on half title. Octavo; xxxiv, 746pp. Illustrated dust jacket over green buckram boards with gilt lettering. Part of The NASA..... More
Washington, D.C.: Space Policy Institute, 2003. Octavo; vi, 262 pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers very lightly bumped at top front corner, else clean and crisp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of papers delivered at the Space Policy Institute's Security Space Forum lunch forums held by the Security..... More
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Quarto; x, 434 pp. English language text; photos throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with some smudging to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards..... More
Paris: International Academy of Astronautics, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; 349 pp. Color and black and white illustrations, charts, and tables throughout. Illustrated boards. Covers sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],248pp.; two leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear and wrinkling to jacket, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by the editors to 19-century photography..... More