Re: searching secondhand books
Subject: Re: searching secondhand books
From: Peter Haagen (haagen@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 13:49:04 EDT
George Huxtable 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@XXX.XXX
> George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
> Tel, or fax, to 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222.
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