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- [1830s?]-1850s (Creation)
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1 vol., c 283 x 226 x 15 mm. 4 front endpapers; ff. 1-46; unnumbered f. bound in; ff. '46x'-59; ff. '59x' and '59xx''; ff. 60-82; 1 endpaper.
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Note by J[ohn] Lee on inside front cover records that the volume was 'Presented by Captain W. H. Smyth to the Hartwell Library [Lee's home]' in 1834. Bookplates of Smyth and Lee pasted below. Below these, a note signed 'R. F. Scott' [Sir Robert Forsyth Scott?] records that the manuscript was purchased at the sale of the Hartwell Library at Sotheby's in Nov. 1888.
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Bequeathed to the Library by Walter William Rouse Ball, 1925.
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This extract covers ff. 1-165 of the printed text in the first published edition of 1834. Extensive alterations and annotations.
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Several other bound MSS formerly owned by John Lee are held at Trinity: Add. MS a. 630, Add. MS b. 158-166, Add. MS c. 173-181. R. 1. 4-5 are two volumes containing printed booklets, also formerly owned by John Lee.
Publication note
Airy, G. B. (1834). Gravitation : an elementary explanation of the principal pertubations in the Solar System / by G.B. Airy. London: Charles Knight.