1963 Survey of the Moon

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition, first impression of this work. Complete with its dust wrapper, price clipped, and sixteen full page plates in black and white. 

Featuring lunar photographic plates by M. Matsui, Kwasan Observatory in Japan, which were produced years before the 1969 first moon landing. 

An amateur guide to the Moon and the progress of astronauts towards it. Written by Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and writer. He also served as president of the British Astronomical Association.