Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Astronomy
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Astronomy
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0.49 Cubic feet
consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder.
circa 1770-1940
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Astronomy forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
English
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Scope and Contents note
This subject category- Astronomy- consists primarily of publications relating to astronomical research and practices. Most are in the form of monographs; some are reprints of lectures. Subjects include stars, the sun and moon, comets, observatories, apparatus, and others. A few items are for educational use. Publications relating to the Transit of Venus in both 1769 and 1882 may be of particular interest. Illustrations depicting astronomers and astronomical instruments are also present. The material has been arranged alphabetically by title.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Astronomy is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Preferred Citation note
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Astronomy, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Conditions Governing Use note
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Materials in the Archives Center
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
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Series 1: Business Ephemera
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Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
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Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
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Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Archaeology and Astronomy
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1939
1
1
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William Bell Dinsmore
Astronomical Tables and Precepts for Calculating the true Times of New and Full Moons and shewing the method of projecting Eclipses, from the Creation of the World to A.D. 7800
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1773
1
1
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James Ferguson
Astronomy, Outline of Eight Lectures on
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1824
1
1
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Mr. Goodacre
Astronomical Maps and Charts
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circa 1800
1
2
Astronomy
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1803
1
3
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London
The Comet of 1771: Investigation of its Orbit
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1879
1
4
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William Beebe
"Comparison of Photometric Magnitudes of the Stars"
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1894
1
4
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Edward C. Pickering
The Computation of Eclipses and Occultations, Elementary Treatise on
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1835
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4
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J. W. Lubbock London
Davis' New Geographical and Astronomical Apparatus
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1854
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5
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Guide for Using "Lunatellus" and "Heliotellus" undated
Destiny of the Solar System
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1
5
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D. Vaughan Lectures
Discovery of Variable Stars from their Photographic Spectra
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1869
1
5
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Edward C. Pickering,1894
Dudley Observatory
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1858, 1890
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6-7
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Albany, New York
Eclipses, A Lecture on
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circa 1790
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8
Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites
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1
8
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Photographic observations 1895
Eclipse, total
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1
8
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Mattoon, Ilinois
Four Propositions…Regarding Determining the Distance of the Sun Using the Theory of Gravity
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1769
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9
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Newcastle
The Great Refracting Telescope
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1848
4
7
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Illustration and description, circa 1850
The Great Refracting Telescope
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1
7
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Circa 1850
Loose page of engraved illustrations of astronomical subjects
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[circa 1800?]
1
7
Gilberts Guide to and History of Halley's Comet
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1835
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10
"I. D. Haile's Universal Orrery Globe"
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1
10
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Instructions for
"Joslin's New Solar Telluric Globe"
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1866
1858
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10
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Manuals for
Mercator Map of the Starry Heavens
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1
11
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(Description and Explanation of) W. Croswell,1810
Moons Rotation, Doctrine of the
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1856
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11
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James L. Mac-Elshender Edinburgh
National Convention of Amateur Astronomers
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1939
1
12
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Program of
Natural and Experimental Philosophy Lectures on
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1806
1
12
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George Adams
Natural and Experimental Philosophy
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1
12
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Analysis of lectures on A. Walker, ca. 1800
Observatories
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1
13
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Publications and images of
Path of the Earth and Moon in the Plane of the Ecliptic
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1894
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14
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Verplanck, Colvin
Periodical, 1783, name unknown; articles
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1783
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15
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"Aurora Borealis", "An Account of a Meteor" , Origin of Meteoric Stones"
Royal Astronomical Society
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1
16
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Monthly Notices of November 1877 and March 1878
Smith's Illustrated Astronomy
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1
17
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School textbook, 1851
Research Career in Astronomy, A
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1923
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18
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Paul W. Merrill
Stars Having Peculiar Spectra . . .
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1895
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18
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M. Fleming
Studies of the Stars
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1877
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18
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Chautauqua text book
Henry W. Warren, D.D.
The Sun; Or Great Solar Luminary
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1855
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18
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M. McCarthy Reidy
Transit of Venus, 1769, Instructions Relative to the Observations of the Ensuing Transit of the Planet VENUS Over the Sun's Disk
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1768
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19
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Nevil Maskelyne, A. M.
Transit of Venus, December 5 and 6, 1882, Observations of, made at the Harvard College Observatory
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1883
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19
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Edward C. Pickering
Publications in German:
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1
20
Die Erhdung des Teleskop
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undated
Zietschrift fur Mathamatischen und Naturwissen-Schaftlichen Unterricht H. Schotten
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1910
Images of Astronomers
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1
21
Images of Astronomical Instruments
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1
22
Miscellaneous Astronomy
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1
23
Publications. Image.
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1858-1894
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12
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Contains a biography of James Nasmyth (1894), a bookletSpecimens of the Garbling Letters(1858, Dudley Observatory), and a color illustration of the Yerkes Telescope (1893).
Astronomy [Oversize]
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