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TABLES FOR FACILITATING THE APPROXIMATE PREDICTION OF OCCULATIONS AND ECLIPSES. For any Particular Place
de SHADWELL, Charles F.A. (Commander Royal Navy)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- 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
- Librería
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Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
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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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- Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd
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- 120825
- Título
- TABLES FOR FACILITATING THE APPROXIMATE PREDICTION OF OCCULATIONS AND ECLIPSES. For any Particular Place
- Autor
- SHADWELL, Charles F.A. (Commander Royal Navy)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - 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
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- R.B. Bate, London. 1847
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
