Light by Rudolf Thiel (57 results)

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but has lightly yellowed. Softcovers are good. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 54 Photos and 73 Line Drawings (illustrator). dj w/closed tea, in mylarr; moderate shelf rubbing; 415 clean, unmarked pages; book club.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st American Edition. Astronomy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Ex-Library. 415 pages. illustrations ; 25 cm. ; purple cloth-backed blindstamped teal cloth. X-Lib with usual apparatus; tape stains on covers and endpapers. Shelfwear on lower edge.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Wraps scuffed with edgewear. Pages are lightly tanning with no markings in text. Glued binding on vinatge paperbacks may be brittle. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover in excellent condition (slight wear, unmarked), with good dust jacket (price-clipped, light wear, small nick on the back edge). 415 pages plus index. [1.9 lbs]. Book.

Paperback. first edition. 290 very good -fine paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, ex library book with all the usual markings, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. C 1957 Good with DJ (Lists of Plates, Line Drawing) and 1st American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Illustrated by Black/white photos. (illustrator). First American Edition. Wear and slight soiling to cloth; corners lightly bumped; bookplate Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with some edge wear and age tone to spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pocket paperback.

Paperback. first edition. MT-290 almost near fine, appears unread paperback,

415pp. + index. 8vo Illustrated in black & white with 54 photographs & 73 line drawings. Green cloth & violet cloth back. First American Edition so stated. Translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. VG/dj in 2 pieces laid in.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. MT290 @ 75 cents Stated First Printing May 1960. Good to very good with covers having perimeter wear, shelf wear, random light staining. Some creasing along spine. Owner ink stamp at top of first page. Very good inside with tanning pages, occasional random light brown spotting. See photos for further details, description.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Transl. by C. Wilston. Numerous Illus. & figures. 396pp. 8vo, two- toned cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1957. Near fine in good d.w.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations, diagrams. Condition: small edge-tear to DJ along with slight wear & toning; else near fine in very good DJ. 396 pages.

Book club edition. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. History of astronomical discovery from Babylon to astrophysics. 396pp.IIlustrated. Blue cloth with VG price clipped Dj.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's purple cloth over aqua boards with an illustration of an astronomer blind-stamped on the front cover, gilt lettering on spine, red topstain, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W drawings and photographs. Head and heel of spine are lightly rubbed, light sun-fading to top edges of cover, former owner's gift inscription at the top corner of the front endpaper, red topstain has 2 small streaks, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. Dust jacket has a small chip at the top edge of the front panel, with some smaller closed tears and creases. VERY GOOD/ GOOD. . B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xv, 415, vii pp.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. 415 pages illustrations 25 cm. Contents:Mystic childhood : Ancient theories : The displaced zodiac and the beginnings of astronomy ; The duty of the son of heaven: orientation ; Time was once relative ; The external problems of the calendarGift from Babylon : The wrath of heaven ; Stargazing and star-reading ; The eyes of the gods ; Picture writing in the sky ; The origin of the horoscope ; Irresistible magicThe Greek cosmos : Theories of the universe ; Harmony of the spheres ; The birth of science ; The triumph of theoryFaded firmament : Why Mohammed needed astronomers ; Christianity and astrology ; Cosmic anxiety of the middle ages ; Dawn of realismHeroic youth : Copernicus the humanist : An everlasting student ; Ten thousand celestial circles ; Center of the universe ; The planetary loops ; The activities of a canonAn observer and a prophet : Theory and practice ; The first observatory ; Heirs in China ; The last flowering of astrology ; Into infinityKepler the god-seeker : Reflection of the spirit of God ; Ptolemyâs overthrow ; Varying speeds of the planets ; Trip to the moon ; Wife seeking, wine-cask reckoning, witch trial ; Reform of astrology; music of the spheresGalileo the pathfinder : Experiments ; The sky in the telescope ; âBut it does moveâ ; Inquisition ; Wordless thoughtsThe maturing cosmology : The sun kingâs republic of scholars : An observatory fire in Danzig ; Instruments ; Circumference of the earth ; Distance of the sun, speed of light ; Mynheer Huygenâs compelling logicMonarch Newton : The many-colored sun ; The falling moon ; Ocean of truth ; Sir Isaacâs parliamentThree generations at Greenwich : An observatory to solve a navigation problem ; The gentleman astronomer ; Wobbly earth, wobbly starsPerspective, prospect, retrospect : The galactic island ; Future of the solar system ; Evolution of the planetsThe adventurous amateurs : Herschelâs plunge into space : The seventh planet ; Double stars, star clusters, and nebulae ; The sunâs orbit ; Sounding the depths of spaceExplorations in the solar system : Minor planets fill a gap ; Enckeâs comet and the home of comets ; Death of comets ; Meteor swarms ; Life on Mars? ; An event on the moon ; Sunspot periods ; Protuberances and coronaTriumph of precision : The perfect telescope ; Spectral lines and wave lengths ; Solitude of the stars ; The leviathan and the rival discoverers ; The deviation of Mercury; the discovery of NeptuneProblems of Genesis : How Saturnâs rings originated ; The birth of planets ; Bombs on the moonRejuvenation : Organization and technology : Astronomy becomes astrophysics ; The camera revolution ; Planned research, and the two rivers of stars ; The American spiritFabulous spectrum analysis : Light and dark lines ; The chemistry of celestial bodies ; A stellar thermometer ; Dust in the Milky Way ; A stellar speedometer ; The diffusion of metals ; Modern fables of the starsThe revelations of photometry : Lighthouses and glowworms ; Variable stars ; Milestones of the galaxy ; Giants and dwarfs ; Novae and the evolution of stars ; SupernovaeRevolutionary theory : Is anything at rest in the universe? ; Space-time continuum ; Curved space ; Radiation balance ; Age of the universeBeginning of a sixth book : The new universe : The giant eyes ; One hundred million milky ways ; Is the universe flying apart? ; Evolution of spiral nebulae ; Radio astronomy ; Space travel ; To infinity.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fraser, Eric (illustrator). First Edition. (1st) Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Fine dark blue cloth, gilt lettering and design bright on spine, top front tip very lightly bumped, ink name at top of first front end paper, 396 lightly browned pages, photo sections and illustrations throughout. DJ beautifully designed with intricate illustration of man with astrolabe sitting on radar station, image of nude woman amid stars, and ancient star-gazing platform, ads on back, white back lightly browned. DJ has micronick at top front edge near tips, light wear to bottom front edge and spine bottom edge, very slight surface wear to spine top edge, tiny tear at top back edge near tip with crease along most of top back edge, light blue stain at top back left with tiny light brown stain at bottom back right. Good DJ/Very Fine book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Name of the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 395 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and there is chipped piece missing on the top edge of the spine. There is foxing around the block of the book. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1958. First Published. 396 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations and photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a small chip on its spine. Still presentable in Mylar. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in poor dust jacket. Large tears to dust jacket. Dust jacket very sunned. Boards sunned. Tips lightly bumped. First American edition *.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth Hardcover, colour fade and a scuff on the spine. Not ex. library. 426 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings throughout. First Alfred Knopf hardback edition, with blind stamped decoration of an ancient scientist on the front board. Translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 396 pages; Physical description: 396 p. : illus. , plates ; 23 cm. Subjects: Astronomy - History. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.