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Re: searching secondhand books
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1999 May 29, 2:27 PM
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1999 May 29, 2:27 PM
Try, http://www.abebooks.com ABE is "Advanced Book Exchange". They have just about everything. Astronomical Algorithms as far as I know is still in print from Willmann-Bell. I recently bought a copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1793. ( Yeah, 1793 ) I have seen tons of old almanacs for sale. Be warned, though, the prices are all over the map. One seller might want $50.00 for a copy of say, the 1939 American Nautical Almanac and another might be selling it for $2.50. ( Which is what I paid ) --- Gordon At 08:21 AM 5/28/99 +0100, you wrote: >For some time, I've been looking out for the following secondhand nautical >books, without success. With the possible exception of Seidelmann, all are >presumably now out-of-print. > ------------------ > >Astronomical. > >Charles H. Cotter, "A History of Nautical Astronomy", American Elsevier >Publishing Company, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York, >10017. 1968. > >J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, Willmann-Bell, about 1991. > >Nautical Almanac, any year prior to 1905 or so (when the tables of Lunar >Distances were dropped). > >P. Kenneth Seidelmann, "Explanatory >Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac", ISBN 0-935702-68-7. > > >Nautical.(fiction) > >C.S.Forester, "Hornblower and the Crisis", a book referred to in Forester's >"Hornblower Companion", but which I have never come across. Is it an >alternative title, perhaps for an American edition? Does it exist at all?. > __________ > > Can anyone recommend a secondhand bookseller who specialises in >astronomy or nautical astronomy? I'm based in the UK, but am prepared to >look further afield? > > George Huxtable > >------------------------------ >george@huxtable.u-net.com >George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. >Tel, or fax, to 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222. >------------------------------ > > ,,, (. .) +-----------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------+ | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge@pe.net | | Department of Mathematics QTH: Loma Linda, CA | | Notre Dame High School Lat. N 34� 03.1' | | Riverside, CA 92506 Long. W 117� 15.2' | | http://www.pe.net/ND | +--------------------------------------------------------+