A REFRACTING TELESCOPE AND ASTRONOMICAL DIARY
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A REFRACTING TELESCOPE AND ASTRONOMICAL DIARY

1854-99

Closed25 April 2012

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GBP 750

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A REFRACTING TELESCOPE AND ASTRONOMICAL DIARY
1854-99
a 3-inch refracting telescope unsigned with crude wooden tripod -- four card astronomical diagrams and one manuscript transparency -- Astonomical observations and notes, manuscript observations from 1854-99 with drawings of planets, signed J. J. Brown Sheffield 1854, apporximately 286 pages, 8vo (some diagrams not filled in, many pages blank, some offsetting and light staining). Half leather over marbled boards (worn, spine lacking); sold not subject to return.
46in. (117cm.) long in box (3)