Lot 420
Maclear, Sir Thomas
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Verification and extension of La Caille's arc of meridian at the Cape of Good Hope. London: Admiralty, 1866. 2 volumes, 4to, 23 engraved plates, some folding, one split at fold, modern cloth; Hale, G.E. & S.B. Nicholson Magnetic observations of sunsots 1917-1924. Washington, 1938. 2 volumes, 4to, original wrappers; St. John, C.E. Revision of Rowland's preliminary table of solar spectrum wave-lengths. Washington, 1928. 4to, original wrappers; Pannekoek, A. Investigations of dark Nebulae. Amsterdam, 1942; [Idem] Photographische photometrie der Nordlichen milchstrasse. Amsterdam, 1933; [Idem] Die Sudliche milchstrasse. Amsterdam, [n.d.]; Lewis, Thomas Measures of the double stars contained in the Mensurae Micometricae of F.G.W. Struve. 1906. 4to, portrait, half morocco, rubbed; Mohler, O.C. A table of solar spectrum wave lengths 11984A to 25578A. Ann Arbor, 1955. 4to, original cloth; Stratton, F.J.M. The history of the Cambridge observatories. Cambridge, 1949. 4to, original boards