TABLES FOR FACILITATING THE APPROXIMATE PREDICTION OF OCCULATIONS AND ECLIPSES. For any Particular Place
by SHADWELL, Charles F.A. (Commander Royal Navy)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- 8vo. 228pp. A good copy bound in full leather. Lacking the gilt title on the spine. Spine worn at edges with top of spine chippe
- Seller
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Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
R.B. Bate, London. 1847. 8vo. 228pp. A good copy bound in full leather. Lacking the gilt title on the spine. Spine worn at edges with top of spine chipped and hinge split. The book is inscribed by the author to Captain Washington. It also has the bookplate of Francis Abbott.. Admiral Sir Charles Shadwell (1814-1886) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in Chief, China Station. This book given by Shadwell to Captain Washington in 1861 while Shadwell was commanding the HMS Aboukir. Bookplate from the library of Francis Abbott, Private Observatory, Hobart Town. Abbott (1799-1883), a convict who arrived in Hobart in 1845, and went on to be one of the leading astonomers in Australia, collected a large philosophical and scientific library. Many of his scientific instruments were bought by the Melbourne observatory. .
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- Bookseller
- Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120825
- Title
- TABLES FOR FACILITATING THE APPROXIMATE PREDICTION OF OCCULATIONS AND ECLIPSES. For any Particular Place
- Author
- SHADWELL, Charles F.A. (Commander Royal Navy)
- Book Condition
- Used - 8vo. 228pp. A good copy bound in full leather. Lacking the gilt title on the spine. Spine worn at edges with top of spine chippe
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R.B. Bate, London. 1847
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- Inscribed
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
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- Edges
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