BAA Lunar Section
Dedicated to amateur research and observation of the Moon
Lunar books
Much of this list was compiled by Richard Baum. It contains a wide selection of books about the Moon — some old, some new, some very outdated, and some containing rather outrageous statements about our natural satellite! The best recommendations of the newer books are marked in blue text (a somewhat biased selection by Peter Grego).
Children's books
Grego, Peter T., Exploring the Moon (London, QED Quarto, 2007)
General books
Alter, Dinsmore, Introduction to the Moon, (Los Angeles: Griffith Observatory, 1958)
Fauth, Ph., The Moon in Modern Astronomy, trans, by Joseph McCabe, with an Introduction by J. Ellard Gore, (London: Owen & Co. 1907)
Fauth, Ph., Unser Mond, (Breslau; 1936)
Franz, Julius, Der Mond (Leipzig. 1906)
Franz, Julius, Die Figur des Mondes. (Konigsberg. 1899)
Franz, Julius, Die Randlandschaften des Mondes (Halle. 1913)
French, B. M., The Moon Book, (New York: Penguin, 1977)
Fresa, Alfonso., La Luna (Milao. 1933)
Markov, A. V., ed., The Moon: A Russian View, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962, originally published in Russian, Moscow, 1960)
Moore, P., Guide to the Moon, (London; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953, several editions, most recent Patrick Moore on the Moon, London. Cassell, 2001)
Moreux, The Abbé Th., A Day in the Moon, (London: Hutchinson & Co. 1913).
Muller, K., Studien an Mondphotographien. (Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927)
Nasmyth, J., and Carpenter, J., The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and as a Satellite, (London: John Murray, 1874, four editions, last in 1903)
Neison, E., The Moon and the Condition and Configuration of its Surface, (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1876)
Proctor, Mary., Romance of the Moon, (New York & London, Harper & Brothers. 1928)
Proctor, R. A., The Moon, Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery and Physical Condition, (Manchester; Brother, 1873. Later editions)
Serviss, G. P., The Moon, A Popular Treatise. (New York: Appleton and Company, 1907).
Selenographical Journal Vols 1-V (1879-1882)
Observing the Moon
Cherrington, Ernest, Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars. (London. Peter Davies, 1969)
Elger, T. G., The Moon, A Full Description and Map of Its Principal Physical Features. (London: Geo. Philip & Son, 1895)
Goodacre, W., The Moon with a Description of its Surface Formations. (Bournemouth: Published by the author, 1931).
Grego, Peter T., Moon Observer's Guide. (London, Philip's, 2003)
Grego, Peter T., The Moon and How to Observe It (London, Springer, 2005)
Guenther, S., Vergleichende Mond- und Erdkunde, (Braunschweig, 1911)
Guillemin, A., La Lune. (Paris. 1868).
Harley, T., Moon Lore (London. 1869)
Hevelius, J., Selenographia: sive Lunae Descriptio. (Danzig: 1647)
Hill, Harold, A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings. (Cambridge. CUP, 1991)
North, Gerald, Observing the Moon, (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Price. Fred W., The Moon Observer's Handbook (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Wilkins, H. P., Our Moon (London. Frederick Muller Ltd. 1954)
Wood, Charles A., The Modern Moon (Cambridge. Sky Publishing. 2004)
Geology
Baldwin, R. B., The Face of the Moon, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
Baldwin, R. B., The Measure of the Moon, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963)
Baldwin, R. B., A Fundamental Survey of the Moon, (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1965)
Fielder, G., Structure of the Moon's Surface. (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1961)
Firsoff, V.A., Strange World of the Moon. An Enquiry into Lunar Physics. (London. Hutchinson, 1959)
Gilbert, G. K., The Moon's Face; A study of the origin of its surface formations. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 12. 241-92, 1893.
Guest, J. E., & Greeley, R. , Geology on the Moon, (London. Wykeham Publications (London) Ltd. 1977)
Heiken. Grant H., Vaniman, David T. and French, Bevan. Lunar Sourcebook a user's guide to the moon. (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1991, reprinted 1993)
Puiseux, P., La Terre et la Lune forme extérieure et structure interne, (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1908).
Ritter, H., Versuch einer Bestimmung von Schichtlinien auf dem Monde, (Berlin, 1934)
Shaler, N. S., A Comparison of the Features of the Earth and the Moon. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XXXIV (No. 1438). (Washington, D. C. 1903).
Spurr, J. E., Geology Applied to Selenology, 4 vols. 1944-1949 (The Imbrian Plain Region of the Moon, [Lancaster, Penns. 1944]; The Features of the Moon [Lacaster, Penns. 1945]; Lunar Catastrophic History, [Rumford Press, 1948]; and The Shrunken Moon, [Rumford Press, 1949])
Wilhelms, D. E., To A Rocky Moon, A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993)
History and secular
Both, E. E., A History of Lunar Studies (New York: Buffalo Museum of Science,)
Montgomery, Scott L., The Moon and the Western Imagination. ( Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1999)
Plutarch, De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet. The Books of the Moralia, Vol. XII, trans. Harold Cherniss and William C. Helmbold. (Cambridge, Mass. and London, England. The Loeb Classical Library, 1957, reprinted 1968)
Sheehan, W. P. and Dobbins, T., Epic Moon: A history of lunar exploration in the age of the telescope. ( Richmond, VA. Willmann-Bell, Inc. 2001)
Atlases and maps
Alter, Dinsmore, (ed)., Lunar Atlas, (New York: Dover, 1968, slightly corrected reprint of work originally published by North American Aviation, Inc., 1964).
Alter, Dinsmore, Pictorial Guide to the Moon (London. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1963)
Andel, K., Mappa Selenographica (Prague. 1926)
Barabashov, N. P, Mikhailov, A. A. and Lipsky, Y. N., An Atlas of the Moon's far Side: the Lunik III reconnaissance, (Moscow: The USSR Academy of Sciences,1960. New York; Interscience Publishers, 1961).
Beer, W., and Mädler, J. H., Mappa Selenographica totam Lunae hemisphaeram visibilem complectens, issued in four sections (Berlin; Simon Schropp & Co., 1834-1836)
Beer, W., and Mädler, J. H., Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhältissen oder allgemeine vergleichende Selenographie, (Berlin; Simon Schropp & Co., 1837)
Fauth, Ph., Atlas von 25 topographischen Spezialkarten des Mondes, (Leipzig, 1895)
Fauth, Ph., Astronomische Beobachtungen und Resultate, (Kaiserslautern: Aug. Gotthold's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1893-1895)
Fauth, Ph., Neue Mondkarten und neuse Grundlagen einer Mondkunde auf 16 Tafeln: Grünwald bei München: Philipp Fauth, 1932)
Grego, Peter T., Observer's Map of the Moon (Birmingham, Published by the author, 2007)
Goodacre, W., A Map of the Moon in XXV Sections, (London: Published by the author, 1910)
Holden, E. S., Lick Observatory Atlas of the Moon (1896-1897)
International Astronomical Union, International Lunar Atlas (1935)
Klinkerfues, E. F. W., Tobias Mayer's grössere Mondkarte nebst Detailzeichnungen, (Göttingen: Univ.-buchdr. von E. A. Huth, 1881).
Kosofsky, L. J., and El-Baz, F., The Moon as Viewed by Lunar Orbiter, (Washington, D. C. NASA, 1970)
Krieger, J. N., Mond-Atlas entworfen nach den Beobachtungen an der Pia-Sternwarte in Trieste. (Trieste: 1898)
König, Rudolf, ed., Joh. Nep., Kriegers Mond-Atlas, nach seinen an der Pia-Sternwarte in Triest angestellten Beobachtungen unter Zugrundelegung der hinterlassenen Zeichnungen und Skizzen bearbeitet und mit Unterstützung der kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wein aus den Mitteln der Treitl-Stiftungf herausgegeben von Rudolf König. Neue Folge. 2 vols. (Vol. I Text, and Vol. II Atlas). (Wein: In Kommission bei Eduard Heinrich Mayer, 1912).
Kuiper, G., Arthur.D. W. G., Moore, E., Tapscott, J. E., Whitaker, E., Photographic Lunar Atlas, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960)
Kuiper, G., Whitaker, E. W., Strom, R. G., Fountain, J. W., and Larson, S.M., , Consolidated Lunar Atlas: Supplements 3 and 4 to the USAF photographic lunar atlas, (Tucson: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 1967)
Kuiper, G., (ed)., Orthographic Atlas of the Moon (Tucson. University of Arizona Press, 1961)
Lohrmann, W. G., Topographie der Sichtbaren Mondoberflache, (Dresden- Leipzig; 1824)
Loewy, M., and Puiseux, P., Atlas Photographique de la Lune, (Paris; Imprimerie Nationale,1896-1909)
Mayer, Tobias., Beweis dass der Mond keinen Luftkreis hat, (Nurenberg, 1748)
Mayer, Tobias., Grössere Mondkarte nebst Detailzeichnungen ... (Gottingen. 1881)
Meyer, M. W., Der Mond (Stuttgart, 1921)
Pickering, W. H., A Photographic Atlas of the Moon, Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Vol. LI (Cambridge, Mass: 1903).
Pickering, W. H., The Moon: A summary of the recent advances in our knowledge of our satellite, with a complete photographic atlas, (London: John Murray, 1904)
Rukl, A., Rackham,T., ed., Atlas of the Moon, (London: Hamlyn, 1991)
Rukl, A., Seronik, G., ed., Atlas of the Moon, (Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing Corp, 2004)
Rukl, A., Moon, Mars and Venus (London: Hamlyn, 1978)
Schmidt, J. F. J., Der Mond (Leipzig: Verlag von Ambr. Barth, 1856)
Schmidt, J. F. J., Ueber die Rillen auf den Mond, (Leipzig:, Verlag von Ambr. Barth, 1866)
Schmidt, J. F. J., Charte der Gebirge des Mondes Nach Eigenen Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-1874, (Berlin; In Commission bei Dietrich Reimer, 1878)
Schmidt, J. F. J., Charte der Gebirge des Mondes Nach Eigenen Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-1874, Erläuterungsband, (Berlin, 1878)
Schmidt, J. F. J., Mondkarte in 25 Sektionen von Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann, (Leipzig; Verlag von Ambr. Barth, 1878, reissued 1892 and 1963)
Schroeter, J. H., Selenotopographische Fragmente zur genauern Kenntniss der Mondfläche ihrer erlittenen veränderungen und zeichnungen, (Goettingen; 1791, a second volume appeared in 1802)
Vyver, S. J., O. Van de, Lunar Maps of the XVIIth Century. Vatican Observatory Publications Vol.1, No. 2, (Città del Vaticano: Specola Vaticana, 1971).
Whitaker, Ewen A.,Rectified Lunar Atlas (Tucson. University of Arizona Press, 1963)
Weinek, L., Astronomische Beobachtungen an der K. K. Sternwarte zu Prag in den Jahren 1888, 1889, 1890 und 1891, nebst Zeichnungen und Studien des Mondes. Royal Observatory of Prague, 1893.
Weinek, L., Photographischer Mond-Atlas, vornehmlich auf Grund von focalen Negativen der Lick-Sternwarte in Massstabe eines Monddurchmessers von 10 Fuss ausgeführt, (Prague; Verlag von Carl Bellmann, 1897-1900)
Weinek, L., Astronomische Beobachtungen an der K. K. Sternwarte zu Prag in den Jahren 1892 - 1899; nebst Zeichnungen und Studien den Mondoberftäche. (Prague, 1901).
Westfall, John E., Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Wilkins, H. P. and Moore, P., The Moon: A complete description of the surface of the Moon, containing the 300-inch Wilkins lunar map. (London: Fabe and Faber Ltd, 1955).
Nomenclature and mapping
Andersson, L. A., and Whitaker, E. A., NASA Catalog of lunar nomenclature. (NASA Reference Publication 1097, 1982)
Arthur, D. W. G., & Agnieray.,Lunar Designations and Positions. (Tucson. University of Arizona Press, 1966)
Arthur, D. W. G., The System of Lunar Craters (Tucson. University of Arizona Press, 1963)
Blagg, M. A., and Saunder, S. A., Collated List of Lunar Formations Named or Lettered in the Maps of Neison, Schmidt, and Mädler, (Edinburgh: Lunar Nomenclature Committee of the International Association of Academies, 1913)
Blagg, M. A., Collated List of Lunar Formations (Edinburgh. 1913)
Blagg, M. A., Named Lunar Formations, 1. Catalogue. 2. Maps (London. 1935)
Whitaker, Ewen A., Mapping and Naming the Moon. (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1999)
Eclipses, occultations & other phenomena
Fisher, Willard J., The Brightness of Lunar Eclipses 1860-1922. (Washington D.C. 1924)
Peal, S. E., On a Possible Cause for Lunar Libration other than an Ellipsoidal Figure, and on Lunar Snow Mountains. (London: Dulan & Co. 1891).
Very, F. W., Prize Essay on the Distribution of the Moon's Heat and Its Variation with the Phase, (The Hague; 1891)