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The wonders of the heavens : being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens ; embracing the sun, moon, and starsThe wonders of the heavens : ǂb being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens, embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy or Milky-Way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. / by Duncan Bradford.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradford, Duncan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- 371 p. : ill., plates ; 34 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : American Stationers Co. John B. Russell., 1837.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1837 by Samuel G. Goodrich.
- "Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, printers to the university."--T.p. verso.
- Folded, colored plates signed: G.W. Boynton sc. Some of the remaining plates signed: J. Archer sc.
- With an added illustrated title page.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Samuel Breck (1771-1862): Books From the Library of a Philadelphia Francophile," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2013-14.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 43390
- OCLC:
- 421974
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