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

 

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