Catalogue of the Universe

Catalogue of the Universe published by Crown Publishers Inc, NY, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 4to. Condition: Nr Fine in Good- DJ. Orig owners name & address in ink inside front. Top front corner bumped, overall content excellent. ISBN 0517536161. LCCN 79-492. By Paul Murdin, Astronomer, Royal Greenwich Observatory, and David Allen, Astronomer, Anglo-Australian Observatory. With original photographs by David Malin, Photographic Scientist, Anglo-Australian Observatory. More than 350 illustrations in color and black and white. This book is a collection of the best known, the most unusual, the most remarkable and the most interesting of all that we know about, or at this moment, can know about in space. Each object is described in terms the layman can understand, each is illustrated with unique photographs, some prepared from techniques that have never been used for a popular book before this. This book gives the layman as well as the astronomer a full picture of a universe that defies the imagination, but is becoming a real and permanent feature of our understanding. It is an important reference source and a highly original book. 256 Pgs. Description text copyright 2006 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 10947.