42 titles have been found.   Recent search "Old and Classical Books" 10102550100 Results per page AMBRONN, Leopold Handbuch der astronomischen Instrumentenkunde. Beschreibung der bei astronomischen Beobachtungen benutzten Instrumente sowie Erlaeuterung der ihrem Bau, ihrer Anwendung und Aufstellung zu Grunde liegenden Principien. Band II (von 2). Berlin, Springer 1899. 4. Zahlr. Abb. S. 503-1276. OLwd. (etwas berieben. Schnitt etwas fleckig).- Poggend. IV. 17.- Vorsatz und Titel etwas stockfleckig. wenige Seiten am Rand etwas fleckig. 300,00 € BAILLY, Jean Sylvain Traite de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale, Ouvrage qui peut fervir de fuite a l'Histoire de l'Astronomie ancienne. Paris, Debure 1787. 4. CLXXX, 427 p. Leather with gilt back-title and red cut. (rubbed. hinges with tear. corners slightly bumped).- Four stamps and handwritten signature on title. otherwise inside a very good fresh copy.- DSB I.402. 350,00 € BAILLY, Jean Sylvain Histoire de l'astronomie moderne depuis la fondation de l'ecole d'Alexandrie. 3 vols. Paris, De Bure 1779-1782. 4. 13, 5 folding plates. XVI,728; (4),751; (4),415 p. Leather with gilt back-title. (rubbed. hings with tear. corners bumped).- Each volume four stamps and handwritten signature on title. few pages slightly browned. otherweise in good condition.- "His 'Histoire de l'astronomie moderne' appeared in two stages. Two volumes devoted to the period up to 1730. were published in 1779. and were followed by a third that brought the story up to 1782. the year of the publication. (DSB I. 402). 900,00 € BIOT, Jean Baptiste Traite elementaire d'astronomie physique. Avec de additions relatives a l'astronomie nautique par de Rossel. 3 volumes. 2nd. Ed. Paris, Klostermann 1810-11. 21, 9, 10 (of 11) foldet plates. XX,455, XI,563; XVI,243, 215, 58, 192 p. Halfleather with gilt back-title. (slightly rubbed. corners slightly bumped. Vol. III: back with taer).- Poggendorff I. 195.- Flyleaves slightly stained. vol. I: old annotations on flyleaf. vol. II: few pages and the plates slightly foxed. 150,00 € BODE, Joh. Elert Anleitung zur allgemeinen Kenntnis der Erdkugel. 2. verb. u. verm. Aufl. Bln., Himburg 1803. gr.8. 6 (von 7) gefalt. Kupfertaf. XXIV, 534 S., 1 Bl. HLdr. d. Zt. mit vergold. RTitel. (leicht berieben. Ecken leicht bestoSSen) .- Bode 'nahm unter den astronomischen Autoren des 18. Jahrhunderts den ersten Rang ein.' (ADB 3.1).- Es fehlt die Weltkarte. Vorsaetze leicht fleckig. Name auf Titel. ansonsten von guter Erhaltung. 75,00 € BODE, Joh. Elert Anleitung zur allgemeinen Kenntnis der Erdkugel. 4. verb. und verm. Aufl. Bln. 1813. gr.8. 1 Weltkarte und 6 Kupfertaf. XXIV, 522 S. Pappband der Zeit mit Rueckenschild. (etwas fleckig. Ecken etwas bestoSSen. Ruecken mit EinriSS) .- Bode 'nahm unter den astronomischen Autoren des 18. Jahrhunderts den ersten Rang ein.' (ADB 3.1).- Titel und wenige Seiten etwas stockfleckig. 135,00 € CASSINI, Jacques Des refractions astronomiques. Extract from Memoires de l'academie royale des Sciences 1714, p. 33-52. 4. 2 plates. Hardbound. (slightly bent).- Poggend. I. 391.- Throughout browned. 50,00 € CLAIRAUT, Alexis-Claude Theorie de la figure de la terre, tiree des principes de l'hydrostatique. Paris, Durand 1743. Title-vignette, nomberous figs. XL, 305, [5] p. Contemporary hardbound boards with gilt back, and red cut. (rubbed. corners slightly bumped).- First edition!- Two stamps on flyleaf. stamp on title. otherwise inside a very good copy.- "In 1743 the 'Theorie de la figure de la terre' appeared. It was to some degree the theoretical epilogue to the Lapland expedition and to the series on polemics of the earth shape... It was also in this work. considered a scientific classic. that the formula named for Clairaut. expressing the earth's gravity as a function of latitude. is found." (Jean Itard in DSB III. 282). 1.250,00 € CORTAMBERT, E. Tableau de l'Univers. Paris, Ardant 1848. 270 p. 4 plates. Hardbound with gilt cover. (corners slightly bumped. otherwise in good condition).- Bibliotheque Religieuse. Morale. Litteraire. pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse.- Cont. Cosmographie. geographie physique et politique. Les tableaux figurant les races et leurs costumes. 35,00 € DELAMBRE, (Jean Baptiste Joseph) Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne. 2 vols. Paris, Courcier 1821. 4. 17 plates. LXXXII,715,(1); 804 p. HLeather with gilt back-title (vol. II moderne HLeather with mounted original back). (slightly bumped. slightly rubbed. vol.I: 1/5 from the upper part of the back missing).- Both volumes with five stamps on title. otherweise inside in good condition.- "Delambre's Histoire de l'Astronomie is a work without parallel in any of the sciences... D. rather presents each major chronological period in a series of discrete analyses of one treatise (or other work) after another... Unquestionably the six-volume Histoire is the greatest full-scale technical history of any branch of science ever written by a single individual. It sets a standard very few historians of science may ever achieve." (I.B.Cohen in DSB IV.17). 500,00 € [42] titles have been found - Titles [1]-[10] - Show next titles