Rudiments of Astronomy. A schoolboy sketch cover title

by Horne, ichard, enry

$2,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: ca. 1810 . Square manuscript notebook, 7.75 x 6.5 ; pp. 20 plus a number of blank pages; seven finely executed illustrations in pen and ink, depicting the solar system, movement of sun spots, the surface of the moon, and so on; paper wrappers, manuscript title on upper cover; wrappers detached, textblock clean and sound, very good. This piece of academic juvenilia is notable mostly for the well-made manuscript illustrations, which are attractive and well done, and augment what

• Binding: Wrappers

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