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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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J Champlin (1881)

 The young folk’s astronomy

J Clarke (1878)

  How to find the stars, with indications of the most interesting objects in the starry heavens

J Colas (1892)

  Poole bros Celestial handbook

J Croll (1889)

  Stellar evolution and its relation to geological time

 

 

 

 

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J Davis (1868)

  Elements of astronomy

J Ferguson (1806)

  Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles

J Gall (1910)

  An easy guide to the constellations, with a miniature atlas of the stars

J Gore (1888)

  Planetary and stellar studies the planets stars and nebulae

 

 

 

 

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J Gore (1891)

  Star groups - a student’s guide to the constellations

J Gore (1903)

  The stellar heavens: an introduction to the study of the stars and nebulae

J Gore (1907)

  Astronomical essays - historical and descriptive

J Guy (1864)

  Guy’s Elements of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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J Hamilton (1903)

  Our own and other worlds

J Herschel (1836)

  A treatise on astronomy

J Herschel (1902)

  Outlines astronomy

J Hymers (1840)

  The elements of the theory of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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J Kelly (1808)

  The life of John Dollond, inventor of the achromatic telescope

J Kippax (1919)

  The call of the stars

J Lockyer (1875)

  Elements of astronomy

J Lockyer (1884)

  Astronomy

 

 

 

 

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J Lockyer (1889)

  Elementary lessons in astronomy

J Narrien (1833)

  Historical account of the origin and progress of astronomy

J Nichol (1846)

  Thoughts on some important points relating to the system of the world

J Plummer (1873)

  Introduction to astronomy

 

 

 

 

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J Rambosson (1878)

  Astronomy

J Spoor (1874)

  Electro astronomical atlas, with explanatory notes questions and answers

J Steele (1884)

  The story of the stars - New descriptive astronomy

J Wilkins (1828)

  Elements of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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K McKready (1912)

  A beginner’s star book - an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass the field glass and telescope

L Bell (1922)

  The telescope

L Clark (1886)

  The star guide

L Lillard (1866)

  Uranography and practical astronomy designed for private students

 

 

 

 

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M Brennan (1889)

  Astronomy new and old

M Bryan (1797)

  A compendious system of astronomy

M Byrd (1913)

  First observations in astronomy

M Shuler (1915)

  The family celestial

 

 

 

 

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M Ward (1869)

  The telescope

N Dupuis (1910)

  The elements of astronomy, principally on the mechanical side intended for engineering students

O Gregory (1803)

  A treatise on astronomy in which the elements of the science are deduced in a natural order

O Mitchel (1848)

  The planetary and stellar worlds: a popular exposition of the great discoveries and theories of modern astronomy

 

 

 

 

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R Allen (1899)

  Star names and their meanings

R Ball (1878)

  Astronomy

R Ball (1891)

  The story of the heavens

R Ball (1895)

  Great astronomers

 

 

 

 

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R Ball (1899)

  Starland, being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens

R Ball (1905)

  A popular guide to the heavens

R Ball (1908)

  A treatise on spherical astronomy

R Ball (1909)

  The earth’s beginning

 

 

 

 

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R Ball (1910)

  In the high heavens

R Brown (1899)

  Researches into the origin of the primitive constellations (Vol 1)

R Brown (1900)

  Researches into the origin of the primitive constellations (Vol 2)

R Chapman (1919)

  The elements of astronomy for surveyors

 

 

 

 

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R Curry (1882)

  The earth as a cosmical system

R Grant (1852)

 History of physical astronomy, from the earliest ages to the middle of the 19th century

R Haskins (1841)

 Astronomy for schools upon the basis of Mons Arago’s lectures at the Royal observatory of Paris

R Main (1863)

  Practical and spherical astronomy

 

 

 

 

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R Miller (1873)

  The romance of astronomy

R Proctor (1873)

  Half hours with the telescope, being a popular guide to the use of the telescope as a means of amusement and instruction

R Proctor (1877)

  Myths and marvels of astronomy

R Proctor (1879)

  Flowers of the sky

 

 

 

 

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R Proctor (1883)

  Mysteries of time and space

R Proctor (1888)

  Easy star lessons

R Proctor (1889)

  Half hours with the telescope

R Proctor (1889)

  The expanse of Heaven, a series of essays on the wonders of the firmament

 

 

 

 

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R Proctor (1905)

  Other worlds than ours

R Willson (1901)

  Laboratory astronomy

S Bayne (1898)

  The pith of astronomy

S Clark (1860)

  Cosmology

 

 

 

 

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S Langley (1889)

  The new astronomy

S Leland (1895)

  World making - a scientific explanation of the birth growth and death of worlds

S Newcomb (1878)

  Popular astronomy

S Newcomb (1879)

  Astronomy for schools and colleges

 

 

 

 

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S Newcomb (1882)

  Popular astronomy

S Newcomb (1902)

  Astronomy for everybody - a popular exposition of the wonders of the heavens

S Newcomb & E Holden (1883)

  Astronomy

S Peabody (1884)

  Elements of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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S Vince (1810)

  The elements of astronomy

T Dick (1845)

  The practical astronomer

T Dick (1849)

  Complete works (Vol III)

Thomas Dick (1851)

The telescope and microscope

 

 

 

 

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Thomas Dick (1852)

The telescope and microscope

T Ostrander (1832)

  The planetarium and astronomical calculator

T Phillips (1923)

  Hutchinson’s Splendour of the heavens, a popular authoritative astronomy (Vol 1)

T Phillips (1923)

  Hutchinson’s Splendour of the heavens, a popular authoritative astronomy (Vol 2)

 

 

 

 

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T Timby (1883)

  Bridging the skies

T Webb (1893)

  Celestial objects for common telescopes (Vol 1)

T Webb (1917)

  Celestial objects for common telescopes (Vol 2)

T Wright (1837)

  The universe and the stars, being an original theory on the visible creation founded on the laws of nature

 

 

 

 

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W Bowie (1917)

  Astronomy - Determination of time longitude latitude and azimuth

W Chauvenet (1891)

  A manual of spherical and practical astronomy (Vol 2)

W Christie (1882)

  Astronomy

W Denning (1891)

  Telescopic work for starlight evenings

 

 

 

 

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W Ellison (1920)

  The amateurs telescope

W Henson (1871)

  The great facts of modern astronomy

W Huggins (1909)

  The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins

W Kitchiner (1815)

  Practical observation on telescopes

 

 

 

 

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W Kitchiner (1818)

  Practical observations on telescopes

W Kitchiner (1825)

  The economy of the eyes: part II of telescopes

W Lynn (1889)

  Celestial motions a handy book of astronomy

W Noble (1886)

  Hours with a three-inch telescope

 

 

 

 

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W Norton (1852)

  An elementary treatise on astronomy

W Norton (1872)

  A treatise on astronomy spherical and physical

W Olcott (1909)

  In starland with a three inch telescope - a conveniently arranged guide for the use of the amateur astronomer

W Olcott (1911)

  Star lore of all ages - a collection of myths legends and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern hemisphere

 

 

 

 

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W Olcott (1914)

  A field book of the stars

W Payne (1892)

  Astronomy and astrophysics

W Payne (1894)

  Popular astronomy - a review of astronomy and allied sciences

W Payne (1908)

  Popular astronomy - a review of astronomy and allied sciences

 

 

 

 

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W Payne (1916)

  Popular astronomy - a review of astronomy and allied sciences

W Peck (1891)

  A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy

W Rammsay (1893)

  Sky wonders

W Rolfe (1868)

  Elements of astronomy

 

 

 

 

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W Rosser (1879)

  The stars and constellations - how and when to find and tell them

W Smyth (1844)

  A cycle of celestial objects for the use of naval, military and private astronomers (Vol 1)

W Smyth (1844)

  A cycle of celestial objects for the use of naval, military and private astronomers (Vol 2)

W Stanley (1895)

  Notes on the nebular theory in relation to stellar, solar, planetary, cometary and geological phenomena

 

 

 

 

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W Stirling (1906)

  New theories in astronomy

Zurcher & Margolle (1870s)

  Telescope et Microscope