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A General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 121° of the North Pole : Part I. The Catalogue [and] Part II. Notes to the Catalogue

Burnham, Sherburne Wesley [Association Copy: Oliver Justin Lee and Roy Marshall]

Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1906.

Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #16730

Staining and chipping to Part II rear panel, edgewear with fraying, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcovers. ; Two of two volumes, complete set. Tipped onto front free endpaper: With the Compliments of the Author [printed slip] through the courtesy of Dr O J Lee [ink note]. Dr Oliver Justin Lee was a prominent astronomer, affiliated with the Yerkes Observatory before joining Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University in 1928, eventually becoming its Director. Both volumes have the custom bookplate: Private Library - Roy Marshall. Roy Marshall was head of the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, the first Director of the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Astronomy Professor at UNC, and a television science personality, hosting The Nature Of Things on NBC. Rear paste-downs of both Parts have stamp: The American Association of Variable Star Observers : Founded 1911. The Burnham Double Star Catalogue was a groundbreaking and highly influential work that laid the foundation for future double star catalogs. Sherburne Wesley Burnham, a court reporter and amateur astronomer, compiled the catalog over 36 years. Part I provided coordinates, designations, and magnitudes for 13,665 double star pairs and Part II contained measures, notes, and references to publications for each pair. This classic astronomy catalog is enhanced by its two associations with prominent astronomers. ; Carnegie Institution Of Washington. Publication; Vol. 5; lv, 256, 256a-r; viii, 259-1086 pages; Signed by Associated.

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