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Zustand: Very Good. Moscow, Izdatel?stvo ?Nauka?, 1964. 8vo. 459 pp. Illustrated. Publ. cloth. Printed in 2000 copies. The fourth and last volume of the multi-faceted collected works of the Russian pioneer of rocketry and astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, containing sections on astronomy, biology and technology. Among the many chapter headings are (in our translation): ?Gravity as the source of global energy?, ?The formation of double stars?, ?Mechanics and biology (the evolution of life up until Man)?, ?Air resistance and fast trains? and ?The cultivation of hot deserts.. Hardcover / Hardback. …

Zustand: Very Good. Moscow, Izdatel?stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1958. 8:o. Portrait, 143,+ (1) pp. Illustrated. Publisher?s illustrated wrappers. Head and tail of spine with paper losses, minor stains on front cover, minor tear in outer margin on the first leaves. Second edition, incorporating the corrections made to the manuscript by the author in 1927. The first version of this novel by the great Russian theorist on space flight was published in the journal Priroda i Lyudi (Nature and People) in 1916. An English translation, ?Beyond the planet Earth?, appeared in 1960. According to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, it is ? an account of the building and launching of a spaceship by an international group of scientists, who begin the construction of space habitats in high orbit, and who then begin to explore the solar system itself, with a view to its colonization.? The illustrations in this edition show two pages with manuscript notes and drawings made by Tsiolkovsky in his youth. Softcover / Paperback.…