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Photographic Lunar Atlas - Gerard Kuiper - Univ. Chicago Press 1960

$ 263.47

Availability: 71 in stock
  • Year: 1960
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    Photographic Lunar Atlas - Gerard Kuiper - Univ. Chicago Press 1960 - Updated 8/29/2022 below.
    Photographic Lunar Atlas - Gerard Kuiper - Univ. Chicago Press 1960 with contents pamphlet. Specs as published are below. Many large-size 21x 17 inch lunar photos with some large double-sized folded with 4 images. Appears to be all there. Lettered dividers. Comes in the original red cardboard-covered box with original price tag from The Emporium. Box has some fade lines on one side, back corners are dog-eared curling (see photos). There is some white cloth taping on the interior by the spline which I think is original, but not positive, to reinforce the portion which opens up - there is some wear back there. Images look good, the first one has some pale thumb marks here and there. Boxed dimensions 18 x 22 x 2.25 inches.
    Please feel free to ask questions as this is not an area I am well-versed in. Sold as-is.
    Update 8/29/2022. Per a question. I counted 92 image sheets, of which I believe 41 are 4-image foldouts, for a total of approx. 218 images (?). The last image - S35 - has a 6 inch jagged tear on the upper left hand side. All the other pages look great, almost like they were never opened.
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    Published info from online is below:
    PHOTOGRAPHIC LUNAR ATLAS / D. W. G. Arthur, E. Moore, J. W. Tapscott, and  E. A. Whitaker ; Edited by G. P. Kuiper. – Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1960.
    In box 18”x22”x3” – Weight: 22 lbs. – Approximately 220 plates – Scale: 100” to Moon’s diameter (1:1,370,000). The atlas presents images at a uniform scale and shows the selected regions with various illuminations. It was used to measure crater diameters.