Patrick Moore — Survey of the Moon

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this amateur astronomer's guide to the moon by Patrick Moore, enriched with black and white plates. 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.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper price clipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.