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Antique books about telescopes and astronomy

Useful antique books in PDF about telescopes and astronomy can be found in this page. These references were mostly obtained from publicly available sources, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) and Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Please click on the covers to access a PDF file of the respective book (note: these may be very big files).

 

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A Bartlett (1877)

 The science of astronomy

A Bartlett (1881)

  Studies in astronomy

A Berry (1899)

  A short history of astronomy

A Bickerton (1901)

  The romance of the heavens

 

 

 

 

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A Clark (1843)

  A new system of astronomy in question and answer

A Clerke (1893)

  A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century

A Collins (1920)

  The book of stars

A Drayson (1862)

  The common sights in the heavens

 

 

 

 

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A Fison (1899)

  Recent adventures in astronomy

A Giberne (1894)

  The starry skies, or First lessons on the sun moon and stars

A Guillemin (1867

The heavens - an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy

A Hinks (1911)

  Astronomy

 

 

 

 

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A Maunder & E Maunder (1908)

  The heavens and their story

A Parsons (1911)

  The road map of the stars

A Pichereau (1884)

  Machinery of the heavens - a system of physical astronomy

A Smith (1855)

  Smith’s Illustrated astronomy

 

 

 

 

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A Souchon (1883)

  Traite d’astronomie pratique

B Burgel (1911)

  Astronomy for all

C Barlow (1893)

  Elementary mathematical astronomy

C Burton (1920)

  The mathematics of the sky

 

 

 

 

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C Dolmage (1909)

  Astronomy of today - a popular introduction in non-technical language

C Flammarion (1870)

  The marvels of the heavens

C Flammarion (1904)

  Astronomy for amateurs

C White (1872)

  The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy for the use of colleges and academies

 

 

 

 

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C White (1901)

  Elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy

C Young (1888)

  The sun

C Young (1890)

  Elements of astronomy

C Young (1902)

  Manual of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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C Young (1903)

  Lessons in astronomy, including uranography, a brief introductory course without mathematics

Carpenter & Westley (1849)

  A compendium of astronomy

D Bradford (1837)

  The wonders of the heavens

D Campbell (1734)

  Times telescope universal and perpetual fitted for all countries and capacities

 

 

 

 

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D Gregory (1715)

  The elements of astronomy physical and geometrical

D Hunt (1878)

  The new idea of astronomy and the sight of the eye

D Olmsted (1840)

  Letters on astronomy

D Olmsted (1850)

  A compendium of astronomy containing the elements of the science

 

 

 

 

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D Olmsted (1850)

  An introduction to astronomy

D Olmsted (1856)

  The mechanism of the heavens, or familiar illustrations of astronomy

D Todd (1897)

  A new astronomy

D Todd (1899)

  Stars and telescopes

 

 

 

 

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D Todd (1901)

  Stars and telescopes

D Todd (1922)

  Astronomy the science of the heavenly bodies

E Bowen (1888)

  Astronomy by observation

E Bullinger (1921)

  The witness of the stars

 

 

 

 

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E Burr (1896)

  The stars of God

E Burrit (1856)

  The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy accompanied by a celestial atlas

E Chapin (1867)

  The correlation and conservation of gravitation and heat and some of the effects of these forces on the solar system

E Chapin (1887)

  Gravitation the determining force

 

 

 

 

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E Clarke (1909)

  Astronomy from a dipper

E Colbert (1871)

  Star studies - what we know of the universe outside the earth

E Grimthorpe (1869)

  Astronomy without mathematics

E Holden (1899)

  Elementary astronomy: a beginners textbook

 

 

 

 

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E Holden (1899)

  The teaching of astronomy in the primary and secondary schools and in the university

E Irving (1904)

  How to know the starry heavens

E L Doublet (1922)

  Histoire de l’astronomie

E L Trouvelot (1882)

  The Trouvelot astronomical drawings manual

 

 

 

 

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E Maunder (1900)

  The Royal Observatory Greenwich - a glance at its history and work

E Maunder (1901)

  The total solar eclipse (1900)

E Maunder (1904)

  Astronomy without a telescope: a guide to the constellations

E Maunder (1908)

  The astronomy of the Bible, an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture

 

 

 

 

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E Maunder (1912)

  The science of the stars

E Maunder (1913)

  Sir William Huggins and spectroscopic astronomy

E Price (1914)

  The essence of astronomy - things everyone should know about the sun moon and stars

E Tancock (1919)

  The elements of descriptive astronomy

 

 

 

 

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E Willard (1854)

  Astronography, or astronomical geography

F Dyson (1918)

  Astronomy - a handy manual for students and others

F Eberty (1849)

  The stars and the earth

F Fellowes (1885)

  Astronomy for beginners in thirty-two lessons

 

 

 

 

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F Gibson (1894)

  The amateur telescopists handbook

F Levander (1864)

  The Astronomical register

F Moulton (1912)

  Descriptive astronomy: an elementary exposition of the facts, principles and theories of astronomical science

F Moulton (1916)

  An introduction to astronomy

 

 

 

 

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G Airey (1884)

  Gravitation - an elementary explanation of the principal perturbations in the solar system

G Chambers (1889)

  A Handbook of descriptive and practical astronomy (Vol 1)

G Chambers (1890)

  A Handbook of descriptive and practical astronomy (Vol 2)

G Chambers (1890)

  A Handbook of descriptive and practical astronomy (Vol 3)

 

 

 

 

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G Chambers (1909)

  The stars

G Comstock (1903)

  A textbook of astronomy

G Forbes (1909)

  History of astronomy

G Galilei (1874)

  dialoghi di Galileo Galilei sui massimi sistemi tolemaico e copernicano

 

 

 

 

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G Gillet (1882)

  The heavens above - a popular handbook of astronomy

G Hale (1922)

  The new heavens

G Lepper (1917)

  From nebula to nebula

G Lewis (1862)

  An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients

 

 

 

 

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G Mitton (1917)

  The book of stars for young people

G Riegler (1910)

  The amateur astronomer

G Serviss (1890)

  Astronomy with an opera glass

G Serviss (1901)

  Pleasures of the telescope

 

 

 

 

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G Serviss (1908)

  Astronomy with the naked eye

G Serviss (1909)

  Curiosities of the sky: a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy

G Serviss (1910)

  Round the year with the stars: the chief beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eye

G Serviss (1912)

  Astronomy in a nutshell: the chief facts and principles explained in popular language

 

 

 

 

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G Serviss (1915)

  Pleasures of the telescope

H Elson (1902)

  Stargazers handbook: a brief guide for amateur students of astronomy

H Howe (1896)

  A study of the sky

H Howe (1897)

  Elements of descriptive astronomy

 

 

 

 

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H Jacoby (1902)

  Practical talks by an astronomer

H Jacoby (1915)

  Astronomy a popular handbook

H Kiddle (1868)

  A new manual of the elements of astronomy descriptive and mathematical

H Kiddle (1871)

  A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes

 

 

 

 

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Henry King (1956)

The history of the telescope

H Macpherson (1906)

  A century’s progress in astronomy

H Macpherson (1908)

  Through the depths of space, a primer of astronomy

H Macpherson (1911)

  The romance of modern astronomy, describing in simple but exact language the wonders of the heavens

 

 

 

 

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H Macpherson (1912)

  Practical astronomy with the unaided eye

H Mattison (1853)

  A high school astronomy in which the descriptive physical and practical are combined

H Mattison (1859)

  A high school astronomy

H Mattison (1867)

  A primary astronomy for schools and families

 

 

 

 

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H Moseley (1854)

  Lectures on astronomy delivered at King’s College London

H Plummer (1918)

  An introductory treatise on dynamical astronomy

H Robinson (1857)

  A treatise on astronomy descriptive theoretical and physical

H Turner (1904)

  Astronomical discovery

 

 

 

 

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H Warren (1886)

  Recreations in astronomy

I Lewis (1919)

  Splendors of the sky

I Newton (1821)

  The first three sections of Newtons Principia

I Sharpless & GM Phillips (1882)

  Astronomy for schools and general readers

 

 

 

 

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J Abbott (1847)

  The young astronomer, or The facts developed by modern astronomy

J Blake (1877)

  Astronomical myths

J Bonnycastle (1822)

  An introduction to astronomy in a series of letters

J Carlisle (1891)

  The young astronomer, or Helps to a knowledge of the leading constellations