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Ginn & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Good. . Minor shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Boston, U. S. A.: Ginn & Company, Publishers. Good with no dust jacket; Boards: edgwear to spine, bumping to corners, . mild discoloration. Text: margin cracked between frontispiece and title . page, otherwise binding tight, discoloration to page edges, M. E. Sunday . School stamp inside front and back covers. Illustrated.. 1892. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 374 pages .

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1892. 376 bright pages with black and white illustrations and diagrams including frontispiece. This antiquarian volume is based on a series of lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain specially addressed to a juvenile audience given by the author, the Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Bumped and worn corners and head and heel of spine. Significant chips missing from spine. Rubbing wear to covers. Bright silver titles and decoration on front. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cassell and Company 1891. Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890. xii, 376, [xvi pub. cat. dated 8.90] pp. Frontis. portrait of the author and 92 text figures. Plain blue cloth, gilt. The author was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. No fading. Gift inscription dated 1895 to the end-paper.. Tenth thousand. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Cassell. Good. 1913. New & Revised Edition. Decorative Cloth. viii, 388pp; colour frontis and 94 b/w illusts. Brown dec cloth flecked, corners a little rubbed, previous owner's stamp to title pg.; 210 x 140mm .

Paperback / softback. New. This is the publication of Ball's popular Royal Institution Christmas Lectures from the 1880s. Aimed at young people, it covers the topics of the sun and moon, the planets, and comets and stars. This is an accessible work, very well received both when first published and long after Ball's death.

London : Cassell & Co, 1905. Revised edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 388 p.: ill.; 19 cm. Notes:Frontispiece. Subjects: Astronomy. Astronomy; Juvenile literature. Astronomy Addresses, essays, lectures. Genre: Illustrated.

Paperback / softback. New. This is the publication of Ball's popular Royal Institution Christmas Lectures from the 1880s. Aimed at young people, it covers the topics of the sun and moon, the planets, and comets and stars. This is an accessible work, very well received both when first published and long after Ball's death.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1899. xiii, 398,pp. Frontis. photo with telescope at Cambridge University and 94 text figures. Full red calf school prize binding with gilt decoration and titles. Dble gilt ruled borders to the boards, gilt. Matching red marbled end-papers. The author was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. No fading, labels or inscriptions. A fine example in a beautiful binding. . New and Revised Edition. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

London ; Paris : Cassell & Company , 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Front board starting. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 376 p. : front., ill. ; 19 cm. Notes; ""Seventeenth thousand"" -- t.p. Includes index. Contents; I. The sun.--II. The moon.--III. The inner planets.--IV. The giant planets.--V. Comets and shooting stars.--VI. Stars - How to name the stars. Subjects; Astronomy. Astronomy ; Juvenile literature. Genre; Illustrated.

London: Cassell, 1905. revised edition. Very Good. octavo. full leather iv + 258pp., frontis., b/w plates, Bound in full dark blue leather with a bright gilt device of Merchant TaylorsÕ School Crosby on the front board. Gilt border to front & rear boards. Five raised bands at spine with gilt decorations. Marbled end papers & text block. Ownership inscription & prize label of Merchant TaylorsÕ School on the front paste-down dated 1909. Boards rather rubbed at extremities at edges o/w a very good copy of an unusual prize binding

London : Cassell & Co., 1890. 10th Thousand Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 376p. : 19cm. Subjects: Astronomy -- Juvenile literature. Astronomy -- Addresses, essays, lectures.

Cassell & Company. London. 1892. Reprint. Prize binding from King William College on the Isle of Man. Bound in full blue calf gilt, gilt school crest to upper board anf gilt Isle of Man (three-legged) emblem to lower board, both boards gilt ruled. Spine sunned and gilt sl. worn with frayed head and tail, extremities rubbed. Endpapers and edges marbled. 376pp. Engraved frontis. with tissue guard with numerous ilustrations to text. Prelims foxed o/w a clean and sound copy. VG+.

London, Paris [etc.] : Cassell and Company, 1908. Revised Edition, 4th printing. Hardback. Very good copy bound in contemporary gilt-blocked, full aniline calf. Raised band and elaborately gilt-tooled compartments to spine. Gilt filigree borders to front and back panel. Copy from Bridlington Grammar School with their gilt-tooled coat-of-arms to the front panel. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 388 pages; Description: vii, 388p. : frontis. (t.g)., illus. ; 19.5cm. Subjects: Astronomy -- guidebooks -- juvenile audience. ""With 92 illustrations and a Rembrandt frontispiece ... thirty-fifth thousand"" --title page. First published in 1889. Based on a series of lectures given at the Royal Instituion of Great Britain in 1881 and 1887 ""specially addressed to a juvenile audience"" --preface to first edition.