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Re: searching secondhand books
From: Thomas Schmidt
Date: 1999 May 28, 3:12 AM
From: Thomas Schmidt
Date: 1999 May 28, 3:12 AM
George Huxtable 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. > ------------------ If your quest for a specialised bookseller fails, you might try amazon.com, they even offer to search for out-of-print titles. > Astronomical. > > Charles H. Cotter, "A History of Nautical Astronomy", American Elsevier > Publishing Company, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York, > 10017. 1968. Out of print, but you can let them search for a secondhand copy: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0370004604/qid=927876806/sr=1-13/002-5086067-7703457 > J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, Willmann-Bell, about 1991. Can be ordered from Amazon (2nd edition Dec. 98): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0943396638/qid=927877023/sr=1-2/002-5086067-7703457 > Nautical Almanac, any year prior to 1905 or so (when the tables of Lunar > Distances were dropped). No luck here... > P. Kenneth Seidelmann, "Explanatory > Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac", ISBN 0-935702-68-7. Can be ordered from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0935702687/qid%3D927877262/002-5086067-7703457 > 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?. There's a "Hornblower During the Crisis": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316289442/qid=927877408/sr=1-8/002-5086067-7703457 A search for books by the author "Forester" and with "Hornblower" in the title will reveal a plethora of other relevant books... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Schmidt e-mail : schmidt@hoki.ibp.fhg.de