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A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789. / By Bartholomew Burges.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burges, Bartholomew, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21722.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Solar system.
- Comets.
- Genre:
- Prospectuses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (17 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- (The second edition. Corrected.).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed by B. Edes and Son, numbers 7, State-Street., --1789.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Dedicated to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement.
- "Explanation of the moveable diagram"--p. 17; followed by an explanation of the diagram of the solar system (engraved by John Norman), p. [18]. The latter explanation appears in the first edition (Evans 21721) under the heading "Explanation of the large plate." The first edition was evidently issued with the diagram of the solar system, and the second edition with the diagram and accompanying volvelle; however, no copy of the second edition with the diagram and volvelle has been located.
- Prospectus for the author's The American seaman's daily assistant, pages [19].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 21722).
- Cited in:
- Evans 21722
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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