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Bournemouth: Published and printed by the Author and by Pardy & Son, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (245 x 175 mm), [4] 364 pp. Several illustrations and diagrams in text (many full-page), a few on separate sheets outside pagination. Contemporary half red morocco over cloth, rebacked with gilt-lettered portion of original spine preserved. Text very bright and clean. Provenance: The British Astronomical Association (ink stamps on title and free endpaper, library card in pocket on rear pastedown), cancelled ownership inscription on free endpaper (T.B.G? dated 1934, R.W.Payne, dated 1966). ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall, 37 - In his youth, Goodacre was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society, becoming a founding member of the British Astronomical Association in 1890. In 1897 he became the second Director of its Lunar Section, serving in that post until 1937. In 1910, he published a 77" diameter hand drawn map of… Read More

London: Published and printed by the Author, 1910. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. Large Folio. Large folio (455 x 455 mm). Separate printed sheets in folder: title, index, and 25 maps. The contemporary folder is made of percaline over boards with gilt-lettered front cover (spine and corners damaged and chipped, leather strap partially gone). The plates evenly age-toned, plate IV soiled. Provenance: The British Astronomical Association (ink stamp to each sheet, machine typed label on title giving information about the making of the maps*). Very good copy internally. ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall, 35 - EXCEEDINGLY RARE. In 1910, the famous selenographer Walter Goodacre published a hand drawn 77-inch diameter map of the Moon. The map covers the entire nearside of the Moon in 25 detailed sections, and was based upon hundreds of lunar observations and extensively used Saunders' measurements for positional accuracy. A reduced version of this map was… Read More