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Title: Annotations on An account of the discoveries concerning comets.
Alternative Title: Barker, Thomas, 1722-1809. An account of the discoveries concerning comets. London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLVII. [1757]
Creator: Prince, C. L. (Charles Leeson), 1821-1899.
Barker, Thomas, 1722-1809
Date Created and/or Issued: after 1757.
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations at least partially written by former owner Charles Leeson Prince in his copy of Thomas Barker's Account of the discoveries concerning comets. Annotations consist of some marginal notations in the printed text, but primarily of several pages bound in at the end of the text. These additional pages contain calculations and notes on planetary orbits and satellites.
Condition: Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards; originally paper wrappers bound in at end.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Extent: [6], 52, [6] pages, bound; 25 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n18c81
QB723 .H18 B25 *
Language: English
Subject: Barker, Thomas, 1722-1809.--Account of the discoveries concerning comets.--1757.
Place: England--East Sussex--Crowborough.
Provenance: Chas. Leeson Prince, The Observatory, Crowborough inscribed on original paper wrappers retained at end of current binding.
Location: CLUW

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