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- [1830s?]-1850s (Production)
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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.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Bequeathed to the Library by Walter William Rouse Ball, 1925.
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Portée et contenu
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.