Shelfmark
Gb.5.02
Author
Costard, George, 1710 - 1782 author.
Title
A letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society, concerning the rise and progress of astronomy amongst the antients.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed by Jacob Ilive, for T. Osborne, in Gray’s-Inn, and J. Hildyard, at York, MDCCXLVI [1746].
Physical description
[2], 158, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo.)
Note
Signatures: [A]² (-[A]2) B-X⁴.
Note
Includes diagrams.
Note
Signed at the end: G. Costard.
Note
Final errata leaf.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T38154
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled double fillet border; blind tooled sprig roll on board edges; gold tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and double fillet border; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fk.7.20.
Subject
Astronomy History.
Subject
Astronomy, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Ilive, Jacob, 1705 - 1763 printer.
Added entry--name
Osborne, Thomas, ? - d. 1767 publisher.
Added entry--name
Hildyard, John, ? - d. 1757 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England York.
Identifier
B47025