ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE YEAR 1873, AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY
by Sands, Rear-Admiral B F., Superintendent
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Includes: Observations with the Transit Circle 1873, pages 1-231; Catalogue of Stars Observed with the Transit Circle 1873, pages 235-254; Right Ascensions, North-Polar Distances, and Semi-Diameters of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, Deduced from Observations with the Transit Circle, and Compared with the Tables 1873, pages 257-265; List of Publications Presented to the Library During the Year 1873, pages 269-276; Meterorological Observations Made at the United States Naval Observatory During the Year 1873, 60 pp.; Appendix I. The Uranian and Neptunian Systems, Investigated with the 26-Inch Equatorial of the United States Naval Observatory by Simon Newcomb, 74 pp. Green cloth covers. Cover corners are bent and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, scuffing to cover faces. Gilt lettering on spine faded, ex. museum label on bottom of spine, spine ends are bent, fraying or missing altogether. Mold on endpapers. Interior pages are browning along edges, otherwise tight. Book in VG- condition.. Cloth. Very Good-. Size: Approx. 9 1/4" x 12". Astronomy.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002782
- Title
- ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE YEAR 1873, AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY
- Author
- Sands, Rear-Admiral B F., Superintendent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1875
- Bookseller catalogs
- Astronomy; U.S. Government Document;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 9 1/4" x 12"
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