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• Kawākib wa-al-ṣuwar (Commissionnaires de lÁcadémie Impériale des sciences, 1874), by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn 'Umar Ṣūfī and H. C. F. K. Schjellerup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eratosthenes Catasterismorum fragmenta Vaticana. Praemissum est de Catasterismorum recensionibus commentariolum ... (Ansbach, 1899), by Eratosthenes and Albert Rehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catasterismi. (In Libraria Hermanniana, 1816), by Solensis Aratus, Periegetes Dionysius, Eratosthenes, and Friedrich Christian Matthiae (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les usages de la sphère, et des globes céleste et terrestre : selon les hypothèses de Ptolémée & de Copernic, précédés d'un abrégé analytique sur leur origine, sur les différens Systêmes du monde, & de la description de la sphère armillaire; dénombrement des constellations anciennes & modernes, avec l'ascension droite & la déclinaison des principales étoiles réduites pour l'année 1790, suivant l'Atlas de Flamstéed, corrigé & augmenté de plus de douze cents étoiles; description & usages de la géo-cyclique; analyse historique & géographique des quatre parties du monde, suivie d'un précis sur l'invention & la perfection des cartes géographiques, &c. &c. (Collége de Me Gervais, 1791), by Charles François Delamarche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo (Por Sebastian Muñoz, a costa de Iulio Castellon, 1611), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci and Miguel Pérez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestrial. (Printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his Shop in Russel Street, at the signe of Atlas, 1670), by Joseph Moxon and Thomas Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaw⁻akib wa-al-ṣuwar (Commissionnaires de lÁcadémie Impériale des sciences, 1874), by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar Ṣūfī and H. C. F. K. Schjellerup (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la sfera del mondo. Libri qvattro in lingva toscana: iqvali non per via di traduttione, nè à qual si voglia particolare scrittore obligati: ma parte da i migliori raccogliendo; e parte di nuouo producendo; contengano in se tutto quel ch'intorno à tal materia si possa desiderare; ridotti à tãta ageuolezza, & à cosi facil modo di dimostrare che qual si voglia poco essercitato negli studij di matemmatica potrà ageuolissimamente & con prestezza intenderne il tutto. De le stelle fisse. Libro vno con le sve figvre, e con le sve tauole: doue cõ marauigliosa ageuolezza potrà ciascheduno conoscere qualunque stella dele XLVIII immagini del cielo stellato, e le fauole loro integramente: & sapere in ogni tempo del'anno, à qual si voglia hora di notte, in che parte del cielo si truovino, non solo le dette immagini, ma qualunq[ue] stella di quelle. (Al segno del pozzo, per Giouanantonio e Domenico fratelli de i Volpini da castel Giufredo, 1540), by Alessandro Piccolomini (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cosmographica disciplina et signorum coelestium vera configuratione libri II (Ex officinâ Joan. Maire, 1636), by Guillaume Postel, Joannes Maire, and Jean Balesdens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auctores mythographi latini : Cajus Julius Hyginus, Fab. Planciad. Fulgentius, Lactantius Placidus, Albricus philosophus (Apud Samuelem Luchtmans ;, 1742), by Jacobus Wetstein, Samuel Luchtmans, François van Bleyswyck, Augustinus van Staveren, philosophus Albricus, Lactantius Placidus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and C. Julius Hyginus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of the astronomical playing-cards teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. (London : printed by J. Moxon, and are to be sold at the sign of the Atlas in Warwick Lane, 1692), by Joseph Moxon and Thomas Hood (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pompe funebri dell'universo nella morte di Filippo quarto il grande re delle Spagne. (Per Egidio Longo stampatore della Regia Corte, 1666), by Marcello Marciano (page images at HathiTrust)

• The historie of heauen containing the poeticall fictions of all the starres in the firmament: gathered from amongst all the poets and astronomers. By Chrystopher Middleton. (London : Printed [by J. Orwin] for Clement Knight, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north doore of S. Paules, 1596), by Christopher Middleton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens" (London: Macmillan, 1877), by J. F. Blake, contrib. by Camille Flammarion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Astronomy of the Bible: An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, ca. 1908), by E. Walter Maunder (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Astronomy With the Naked Eye: A New Geography of the Heavens, With Descriptions and Charts of Constellations, Stars, and Planets (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1908), by Garrett Putman Serviss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mythographi Graeci (3 volumes in 5 (apparently all that were published), in Greek with Latin notes; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1894-1902), ed. by Richard Wagner, Paul Sakolowski, Edgar Martini, Alexander Olivieri, and Nicola Festa, contrib. by Apollodorus of Athens, Ioannes Pediasimus, Parthenius of Nicaea, Antoninus Liberalis, Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Palaephatus, and Heraclitus
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II fasc. 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II fasc. 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II fasc. 1 supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III fasc. 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III fasc. 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Vollume III fasc. 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mythographoi: Scriptores Poeticae Historiae Graeci (in Greek with Latin notes; Braunschweig, Germany: G. Westermann, 1843), ed. by Anton Westermann, contrib. by Apollodorus of Athens, Conon, Parthenius of Nicaea, Ptolemaeus Chennus, Antoninus Liberalis, Eratosthenes, Palaephatus, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Ioannes Pediasimus, and Nicetas, Archbishop of Heraclea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mazzaroth: or, The Constellations (4 parts, and 'Mizraim', bound together; London: Rivingtons, 1862-1865), by Frances Rolleston (multiple formats at Google)
• The Witness of the Stars (source edition unknown; originally published 1893), by E. W. Bullinger, illust. by Amy Manson (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Witness of the Stars (London: The author, 1893), by E. W. Bullinger, illust. by Amy Manson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Witness of the Stars (fourth edition; London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1921), by E. W. Bullinger, illust. by Amy Manson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Researches into the origin of the primitive constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians (Williams and Norgate, 1976), by Robert Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A field book of the stars (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1914), by William Tyler Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star names : their lore and meaning. (Dover Publications, 1963), by Richard Hinckley Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphaera. Neue griechische Texte und untersuchungen zur geschichte der Sternbilder (B. G. Teubner, 1903), by Franz Boll, Karl Dyroff, and Jaʻfar ïbn Muhammad (Abü Ma'shar) al-Balkhï (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient calendars and constellations (J. Murray, 1903), by Emmeline M. Plunket and England) Society of Biblical Archæology (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomie (Veuve Desaint, 1771), by Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande and Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1914), by John R. Kippax (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars in myth and fact (The Caxton printers, 1942), by Oral E. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductory astronomy : a guide for night watchers (Philosophical Library, 1944), by J. B. Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star lore of all ages : a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern hemisphere (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by William Tyler Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy: accompanied by a celestial atlas. (Sheldon & company, 1873), by Elijah H. Burritt, Henry Whitall, and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars are yours. (Macmillan Co., 1948), by James S. Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomy with the naked eye; a new geography of the heavens, with descriptions and charts of constellations, stars, and planets (Harper, 1908), by Garrett Putnam Serviss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the constellations (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1928), by Samuel Goodwin Barton and William Henry Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stars of fall and winter. (University press, 1939), by Theodore Grefe Mehlin and J. Herbert Blackhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star-names and their meanings (G.E. Stechert, 1899), by Richard Hinckley Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomical myths. (Macmillan and co., 1877), by J. F. Blake and Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stars of spring and summer. (University press, 1939), by Theodore Grefe Mehlin and J. Herbert Blackhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hanna star dome. (The Cleveland museum of natural history, 1936), by Dorothy A. Treat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The astronomy of the Bible. An elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture (Hodder & Stoughton, 1909), by E. Walter Maunder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uranographie, ou Contemplation du ciel, à la portée de tout le monde. (Merigot, jeune, 1771), by Augustin D'Arquier de Pellepoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abrégé d'Astronomie (F. Didot, an III, 1795), by Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphere historique, ou Explication des signes du zodiaque, des planetes (A. Cailleau, 1716), by Antonie Lartigaut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy; accompanied by a celestial atlas (F.J. Huntington and co., 1838), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington & Savage, 1846), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy; accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington & Savage, 1847), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A field book of the stars (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1936), by William Tyler Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les usages de la sphère et des globes céleste et terrestre, précédés d'un abiégé sur les différens systèmes du monde : suivis de la description et des usages de la géo-cyclique, du dénombrement des constellations anciennes et modernes, et de la description de la sphère mouvante, d'aprés le systéme de Copernic. (F.x Delamarche et Ch. les Dien, 1821), by Charles François Delamarche (page images at HathiTrust)
• The friendly stars (The Chautauqua press, 1909), by Martha Evans Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star names and their meanings (G. E. Stechert, 1936), by Richard Hinckley Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constellations and their history (C. Griffin & company, ltd., 1928), by Charles Whyte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uranography. A brief description of the constellations visible in the United States, with star-maps, and lists of objects observable with a small telescope. (Ginn & Co., 1897), by Charles A. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches into the origin of the primitive constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians (Williams and Norgate, 1899), by Robert Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Mythographoi] Scriptores poeticae historiae graeci (sumptum fecit Georgius Westermann, 1843), by Anton Westermann, Nicetas, Archbishop of Heraclea, Ioannes Pediasimus, mythographer Heraclitus, Palaephatus, Eratosthenes, Antoninus Liberalis, Ptolemaeus Chennus, of Nicaea Parthenius, mythographer Conon, and Apollodorus of Athens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy: accompanied by a celestial atlas. (Mason brothers, 1866), by Elijah H. Burritt and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Mason Brothers, 1856), by Elijah H. Burritt, Henry Whitall, and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• An easy guide to the constellations with a miniature atlas of the stars (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by James Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars in song and legend (Ginn, 1901), by Jermain G. Porter, Albrecht Dürer, and Ginn and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars (Review of Reviews Co., 1909), by George F. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star groups : a student's guide to the constellations (Crosby Lockwood, 1891), by J. Ellard Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia del cielo (A. Bouret é hijo, 1874), by Camille Flammarion and Carlos de Ochoa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cepheid variable [pi] aquilae, the eclipsing binary [sigma] aquilae ([Springfield?, 1922), by C. C. Wylie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uranography; a brief description of the constellations visible in the United States, with star-maps, and lists of objects observable with a small telescope (Ginn, 1893), by Charles A. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars and how to identify them. (Epworth Press, 1919), by E. Walter Maunder (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Islamic book of constellations (The Library, 1965), by Bodleian Library and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mythographi Graeci (Sumptum fecit Georgius Westermann, 1843), by Anton Westermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens : and class book of astronomy accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington & Savage ;, 1849), by Elijah H. Burritt and O. M. Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A field book of the stars (Putnam, 1914), by William Tyler Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las constelaciones zodiacales: apuntes escritos para los amantes de la astronomia (Impr. de Aguilar é hijos, 1902), by Luis G. León (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens : and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington and Savage, 1844), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uranography : A brief description of the constellations visible in the United States, with star-maps, and lists of objects observable with a small telescope (Ginn & Company, 1902), by Charles A. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, or familiar instructions for finding the visible stars and constellations (Allen & Ticknor, 1833), by Elijah H. Burritt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the relative position and mythological history of the constellations (A. Finley, 1824), by Jacob Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington & Savage, 1843), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (F.J. Huntington and Co., 1838), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Published by F.J. Huntingdon and Co. ..., 1841), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aratou Soleōs Phainomena kai Diosēmeia (E. Theatro Sheldoniano, 1672), by Solensis Aratus, of Alexandria Theon, Eratosthenes, and John Fell (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to know the stars (Printed by Pottstown Daily Ledger], 1913), by William W. Rupert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les usages de la sphère, des globes céleste et terrestre, précédés d'un abiégé sur les différens systèmes du monde : suivis de la description et des usages de la géo-cyclique, etc. (Chez Fx Delamarche, 1826), by Charles François Delamarche (page images at HathiTrust)
• De imaginibus coeli. (Dyk'sche Buchhandlung, 1861), by C. Julius Hyginus and L. W. Hasper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy; accompanied by a celestial atlas. (Huntington & Savage, 1849), by Elijah H. Burritt, William Gardner Evans, Thomas Dick, H.W. Derby & Co, and Huntington and Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Mason Brothers, 1856), by Elijah H. Burritt and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy; accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington & Savage, 1842), by Elijah H. Burritt and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens : and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Mason Brothers, 1860), by Elijah H. Burritt and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Huntington and Savage, Mason and Law, 1850), by Elijah H. Burritt, Hiram Mattison, and Thomas Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens : and class book of astronomy accompanied by a celestial Atlas (Huntington & Savage, 1848), by Elijah H. Burritt and O. M. Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plates of fixed stars used in navigation (N.Y., 1909), by Robert E. Tod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aufblick zu den Sternen-Welten. Als untrüglicher Führer, alle am Himmel prangende dem unbewaffneten freien Auge sichtbaren Sternbilder auf die leichteste Weise auffinder und erkennen zu lernen. (Schaumburg, 1846), by Josephine Ránlom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (F.J. Huntington :, 1852), by Elijah H. Burritt and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Mason Brothers, 1858), by Elijah H. Burritt and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy: accompanied by a celestial atlas. (Sheldon & company, 1873), by Elijah H. Burritt, Henry Whitall, and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hygini Astronomica; texte du manuscrit tironien de Milan (H. Champion, 1909), by C. Julius Hyginus, Paul Legendre, Emile Chatelain, and Biblioteca ambrosiana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The witness of the stars (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1911), by E. W. Bullinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uranography : a brief description of the constellations visible in the United States, with star-maps, and lists of objects observable with a small telescope (Ginn & Company, 1896), by Charles A. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phainomena kai Diosēmeia (E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1672), by Solensis Aratus, Edmund Chilmead, John Fell, Periegetes Dionysius, Eratosthenes, and of Alexandria Theon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eratosthenis Catasterismorum reliquiae. (apud Weidmannos, 1878), by Eratosthenes and Carl Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of astronomy; a textbook (Ginn and company, 1919), by Charles A. Young and Anne Sewell Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1919), by John R. Kippax (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stars and their stories; a book for young people (H. Holt and Company, 1913), by Mary Matlock Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of the heavens and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (Sheldon and Company, 1874), by Elijah H. Burritt, Henry Whitall, and Hiram Mattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rehber-i süver-i kevâkib (Saha Matbaasi, 1909), by Ismail Rahmi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The names of the stars and constellations, compiled from the Latin, Greek, and Arabic; with their derivations and meanings: together with the twenty-eight moonstations, of the zodiac, known to the Arabs. (S. Clarke;, 1882), by W. H. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arati Phaenomena et Diosemea (apud A. Mylium, 1826), by Solensis Aratus and Ph. Buttmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The astronomy of the Bible. An elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture (T. S. Clark & Co., Ltd., 1909), by E. Walter Maunder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clarissimi viri Hyginii Poeticon astronomicon : opus vtilissimum foeliciter incipit : de mundi & sphere ac utriusq3 ptiũ declaratione : Liber prim⁹ Prohemiũ Hyginius. M. Fabio plurimã salutẽ. (Impressum est presens opusculũ per Erhardũ Radtolt ..., 1485), by C. Julius Hyginus, Joannes Lucilius Santritter, and Jacobus Sentinus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constellation studies (Akron, Ohio :, 1959), by William I. Barnholth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star maps for beginners (The authors, 1942), by I. M. Levitt and Roy K. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The witness of the stars (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1921), by E. W. Bullinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamasteghutʻiwnnerě : Hayk kam Ōrion (Tpagrutʻiwn G. Paghtatlean, 1911), by M. Hanēsean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auctores mythographi latini. Cajus Julius Hyginus, Fab. Planciad. Fulgentius, Lactantius Placidus, Albricus philosophus (apud S. Luchtmans;, 1742), by Augustinus van Staveren, philosophus Albricus, Lactantius Placidus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and C. Julius Hyginus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The astronomy of the Bible : an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture (T.S. Clark & Co., 1908), by E. Walter Maunder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern hemisphere (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924), by William Tyler Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient calendars and constellations, by Emmeline M. Plunket (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Field Book of the Stars, by William Tyler Olcott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Astroscopium, or Two hemispheres, containing all the northern and southern constellations: projected upon the poles of the word [sic], according to the observations of Mr. Halley, which (by the help of a moveable horizon) are rendred serviceable in any latitude : the uses of which hemispheres are illustrated by variety of examples : whereunto is added, the antient poetical stories of the stars, shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictures on the coelestical globes. (London : Phillip Lea, 1700), by Francis Lamb, Phillip Lea, and Thomas Hood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. English (London : Printed for Joseph Moxen, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1654), by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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