The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical. By David Gregory M. D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal-Society. Done into English, with additions and corrections. To which is annex'd, Dr. Halley's synopsis of the astronomy of comets. In two volumes. ...
Dr David Gregory (1659-1708)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230790
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf in both vols.: "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn on four supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines; gilt title and vol. number on spines; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Dr David Gregory (1659-1708), author Edmund Halley (1656-1742), author