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Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1985. 550 g; 186 pages, includes eight pages of black-and-white reproductions and photography, 14 figures in text, list of sources and references, two tables, index, colour illustrated dust jacket. Top edge of the text block is slightly dusty, otherwise in very good order. If you read the dustwrapper blurb, you could be led to believe that this is a book about the person who discovered Halley's comet, however the book is more of a history of the comet itself, and of the advances in science in the last thousand years.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographic. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Astronomy.