Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
Language and size: | Libri Latini, &c. in Quarto |
Lot number: | 428 |
Page number: | 17 |
Author: | Mouton, Gabriel |
Title: | Observat. Diamet. Solis & Lunae apparent. |
Publication place: | Lyon |
Publication date: | 1670 |
Price fetched: | 0.4.2 |
Location: | [Unknown; see notes] |
Provenance: | Kenney, C.E. |
Provenance references: | Sotheby, Catalogue of . . . the Property of C.E. Kenney, 6th portion (1967); Dawsons of Pall Mall, Catalogue No. 209. Twenty Nine Remarkable Books: Manuscripts and Autograph Letters of the 13th to the 20th Centuries (1970). |
Annotations: | Hooke requested a copy of this book in his 1 March 1680/1 letter to Edmond Halley (Royal Society, EL/H3/62); see the editors' introduction for images. |
Other notes: | Hooke's copy is mentioned in Sotheby's Catalogue of the celebrated collection, the property of C.E. Kenney . . . The 6th portion . . . Which will be sold by auction . . . on Monday the 22nd May, 1967 and the following day . . . (1967) [WorldCat link]; and in Dawsons of Pall Mall's Catalogue No. 209, Twenty Nine Remarkable Books: Manuscripts and Autograph Letters of the 13th to the 20th Centuries, A splendid gathering of items, including . . . Robert Hooke's copy of Gabriel Mouton's Observationes Diametrorum Solis . . . (1970) [WorldCat link]. |
database ID: | auct_BH_776 |