The New Solar System - Deluxe Expanded Edition, with Bound-In Supplement, Exploring Our Home and Beyond

Daniels, Patricia (author); Schneider, Howard (author of bound-in supplement)

ISBN 10: 1426207530 / ISBN 13: 9781426207532

Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2010

About this Item

Fine. See description and scans. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2010. The scarce Deluxe Expanded edition of Patricia Daniels' The New Solar System, with Howard Schneider's supplement, Exploring Our Home and Beyond, bound in. Bears its own USBN #, that being 9781426207532. Quarto, black lightly padded black fine grain synthetic leather boards with gilt imprinting on front cover and spine, All Edges Gilt, satin ribbon page marker, charcoal endpapers, 272 pp. Fine; in fact never read, having been removed from shrinkwrap upon receipt and stored in archival protection since. Small degree of push-crimping at corners caused by the tightness of the shrinkwrap in which this piece was packaged by the NGS is all that keeps it from "pristine" status. A gorgeous volume, a and quite scarce. Luxuriantly and intensely illustrated, with photography and other graphics, in both title sections. Please see scans. Extremely collectible in this form. LG9.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Solar System - Deluxe Expanded Edition, with Bound-In Supplement, Exploring Our Home and Beyond
• Publisher: National Geographic Society, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1426207530
• ISBN 13: 9781426207532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sciences 1: Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics

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Synopsis

Aimed at the popular audience by experienced astronomy author Patricia Daniels with contributions by former editor of Astronomy magazine Robert Burnham and highlighted by 160 photographs, diagrams and maps, this superb guide explores every corner of Earth's planetary neighborhood, from the fiery sun at its center to the dark, icy realm where interstellar space begins. It's a state-of-the-art observation of the solar system as we know it today and a knowledgeable forecast of what to expect in the future, from Pluto's demotion to plutoid to the upcoming Moon mission, the likelihood of a manned expedition to Mars, and much more.From breathtaking full-color photographs to detailed explanatory diagrams to expert essays, fascinating sidebars, and informative fact boxes, the New Solar System is not just an easy-to-use, solidly reliable reference, but also a visually stunning, invitingly browsable volume guaranteed to fire the imagination of even the most casual reader.As we celebrate NASA's first half-century and look outward to exciting new possibilities, public interest in all things interplanetary will only grow more intense-and this wonderfully timely book is poised to launch us once more into the High Frontier.