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  • De Peyster, J. Watts
     
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    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.
     
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    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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    QB509 .P82X 1883NASM Ramsey Room39088019133958Checked Innon-circulatingRequest Copy
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