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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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THE UNIVERSE IN SPACE AND TIME
Written by G. Van Den Bergh; Joan C.H. Marshall.
Stock no. 815942
Published by The Scientific Book Club. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

18 half-tone and 34 line illustrations. Wrapper is torn with some loss.

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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. B/w diagrams. Text in German. Ein Lehrbuch Angewandter. Grosse Ausgabe. Joints cracked else contents very good. Corners worn.

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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
Written by R.J. Tayler.
Stock no. 587351
Published by Institute Of Physics. 1st 1992. As new condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0750302003.

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

Blue cloth, gilt titles. ISBN: 019851462X.

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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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