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Try, http://www.abebooks.com

ABE is "Advanced Book Exchange". They have just about everything.
Astronomical Algorithms as far as I know is still in print from
Willmann-Bell.

I recently bought a copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1793. ( Yeah, 1793 )

I have seen tons of old almanacs for sale.  Be warned, though, the prices
are all over the map.

One seller might want $50.00 for a copy of say, the 1939 American Nautical
Almanac and another might be selling it for $2.50. ( Which is what I paid )


--- Gordon


At 08:21 AM 5/28/99 +0100, you 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@huxtable.u-net.com
>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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>
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