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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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