whitaker ewan (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol. 1 [on ring-binder]. St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, February 1960. Oblong folio (430 x 532 mm). Pictorial title, 228 monochrome photographed plates of the moon's surface (title creased, one plate detached, some fraying to last few plates). Original ring-binder (a bit soiled). ---- <brYAshworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall 38 (civil edition only). - EXCEPTIONALLY RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION (the military edition was published prior to the civil edition of the University of Chicago Press). "The last great photographic lunar atlas based on images recorded from earth was undertaken by Gerard Kuiper and a number of colleagues, most notably Ewen Whitaker, in 1955. The atlas utilized photographs from five observatory collections--Mount Wilson, Lick, Pic du Midi, McDonald, and Yerkes--supplemented as necessary by new ones. The complete atlas has 281 photographs, covering 44 fields under different angles of illumination. The photographs in the main body of the atlas are printed four to a sheet, and folded, so that they might be used at the telescope" (Ashworth). - Visit our website to see more images!