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Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Good. Well illustrated with many B&W Illustrations and a Fold-Out Chart of the Solar System. First Part, the Solar System (up to Neptune). Second Part, The Stars; The Nebulae; Milky Way. Third Part, Laws of Astronomy: Kepler's, Universal gravitation, Precession of the Equinoxes, Tides, Origin & Formation of Solar System. Blue cloth cover with Silver Illus of Rising Sun and Night Sky on front. beveled edges. Dull gilt lettering to spine. Yellow endpapers. X/10 preliminary pages, Main Text 436 p. pages. 9 1/4" Tall, 1.1 kilos. Patchy fading to cloth and spine tanned. 2 nicks to cloth at bottom of spine and very small closed tear at top of spine. Cloth worn at tip of bottom fore corner on rear board. Hinges cracked, text block firm. No inscriptions except, very occasionally, a few small pencil marks in fore margin. Weighs over 1 kilo so shipping Outside UK may be a little extra.…