STAR FORMATION WORKSHOP
Written by R.D. Wolstencroft.
Stock no. 816097
1984. Very good condition.

Occasional Reports of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; and Proceedings of the Workshop on Star Formation. Large format. Cardwraps. viii and 227 pages. ISBN: 0902553305. Cover corners lightly creased. Text block browned and a little grubby. A few biro annotations els contents clean.

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THE TRIUMPH OF MAN IN SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Written by Ellison Hawks.
Stock no. 815997
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles & vignette. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 426 pages including index. Front vertical edge of cover worn, corners worn. Title to spine rubbed. Covers lightly scuffed. Hand-made free front endpaper has come unstuck i.e. is loose. All plates present. A few foxspots. Text block untrimmed.

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ROCKETS AND SPACECRAFT BOOK TWO
No author listed.
Stock no. 814783
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An Orbit Book. Very small square format. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures. Wrapper is foxed and browned.

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ASTRONOMISCHE ERDKUNDE
Written by H.C.E. Martus.
Stock no. 811776
Published by C.A. Kochs. 1912. Good condition.

Green cloth spine, grey cloth boards. B/w diagrams. Text in German. Ein Lehrbuch Angewandter. Grosse Ausgabe. xx and 502 pages including index. Light scuffing to boards. Corners lightly worn. Joints cracked and starting to split. Front endpaper detached. A few foxspots present else contents very good.

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UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE
Written by A.W. Haslett.
Stock no. 811774
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1936. Almost very good condition.

The idea of this book came from a series of four short articles published under the same title in the Morning Post. These articles suggest that a book might usefully be devoted to a discussion of those aspects of scientific inquiry in which major problems still await solution. Green cloth, gilt titles. xi and 317 pages including index. Reprint. Top of spine frayed with slight loss. Text block browned. Prelims foxed and a few scattered foxspots to contents. Neat name in red pencil to title page.

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FLY THE SPACE SHUTTLE
Written by Carole Stott.
Stock no. 991161
Published by Dorling Kindersley. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

Complete 32 page book plus separate spectacular 3-D space shuttle model to make. ISBN: 0751356255. Model unused and still in its polythene bag.

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STARS, NEBULAE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM: OBSERVATIONAL PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
Written by C.R. Kitchin.
Stock no. 587343
Published by Adam Hilger Ltd.. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive survey of the structure, properties and evolution of stars and their interaction with the interstellar medium. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, diagrams and charts. xiv and 359 pages including index. ISBN: 085274580X. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Else a clean copy.

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STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (THE GRADUATE SERIES IN ASTRONOMY)
Written by R.J. Tayler.
Stock no. 587351
Published by Institute Of Physics. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Papers presented in this book are reprinted from Reports on Progress in Physics, an Institute of Physics Journal. A selection of papers of the hightest quality showing the latest progress made in research into the structure and evolution of stars. Edited by Tayler. Glazed black & green boards. xii and 356 pages. ISBN: 0750302003. A nice copy.

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THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY
Written by A.K. Raychaudhuri.
Stock no. 686770
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Today cosmology is one of the most exciting and at the same time confusing subjects. The book aims to convey to the reader some of the excitement while not hiding the confusions that remain. Thus while evidences of the microwave background radiation and the abundances of deuteron and helium as bringing support for the standard big bang cosmology are dealt with in fair details, the unsolved puzzle of some apparently anomalous red shifts and the tendency towards a negative parameter also receive attention... Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 298 pages including index. ISBN: 019851462X. Spine faded. Text block browned. Contents clean.

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A NEW TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE GLOBES
Written by Thomas Keith.
Stock no. 616844
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1831. Fair condition.

Dark green calf binding. Small format. 6 folding copper plates. B/w drawings in text. 359 pages and 12 pages of book list at rear. Front board, front endpaper and title page are detached (but present). Rear joint is split but holding by cords. Loss to top of spine. Boards are worn and scuffed, loss of surface leather to edges. A few age related marks to contents. Some hinges pulled. A working copy only.

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THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSE: WOLFSON COLLEGE LECTURES 1979
Written by Geoffrey T. Bath.
Stock no. 666088
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the history of the universe and what is happening within in it now as presented in this book by eight scientists involved in the recent astronomical discoveries. Each chapter is based on a lecture given as part of the Wolfson College Lectures in the Spring of 1979. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. vii and 199 pages including index. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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REPORT OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
No author listed.
Stock no. 985352
Published by John Murray. 1850. Slightly better than good condition.

Includes: Luminous Meteors; Nebuli; Influence of Carbonic Acid Gas on the Health of Plants; The Heat of Combination; Vitality of Seeds; Railway Bar Corrosion; Electrical Observations. Pages: xlvi, 144, 11, 6, plates + 8. Original paper boards. Pages uncut. 10 plates, 5 folding. Boards marked and stained. Backstrip missing and thus front joint fragile. Text block browned. Top edge of pages uncut. Contents lightly browned but generally clean. Hinges pulled but binding holding.

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