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Proctor, Richard A.
Venus (Planet)
De Peyster, J. Watts
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
Malby & Sons,
MARC Display
Transits
of
Venus
. A
popular
account
of
past
and
coming
transits
from the
first
observed
by
Horrocks
A.
D
.
1639
to the
transit
of A.
D
.
2012
. / By
Richard
A.
Proctor
.
Author:
Proctor
,
Richard
A. (
Richard
Anthony
), 1837-1888, author, illustrator.
Title:
Transits
of
Venus
. A
popular
account
of
past
and
coming
transits
from the
first
observed
by
Horrocks
A.
D
.
1639
to the
transit
of A.
D
.
2012
. / By
Richard
A.
Proctor
.
Publisher:
London, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Description:
xiv, 236, 4 pages illustrations, 20 plates (2 folded, 12 color ; including frontispiece) diagrams 20 cm
Notes:
"With 20 plates (12 coloured) and 37 woodcuts."
Some plates are signed: R.A.
Proctor
, del.; Malby & Sons lith.
Publisher's advertisements on the final 4 pages.
Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.
Also issued online.
Local Note:
NASMRB copy 39088019133958 has armorial bookplate: John Watts de Peyster Library, with motto: Forti non deficit telum.
NASMRB copy has stamp on title page: Smithsonian Institution Office Library, Aug. 12, 1924; with a handwritten note at the top of the title page: Deposited with APO.
NASMRB copy has a later red cloth binding with brown endpapers and the remnants of a printed title label.
Subject:
Venus
(Planet) --
Transit
.
Added Author:
De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907, former owner.
Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.
Malby & Sons, lithographer.
Catalog Source No.:
(OCoLC)ocm10003928
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Status
Item notes
QB509 .P82X 1883
NASM Ramsey Room
39088019133958
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non-circulating
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