Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
| Language and size: | Libri Latini, &c. in Quarto |
| Lot number: | 489 |
| Page number: | 19 |
| Author: | Kepler, Johannes |
| Title: | De Cometis Libelli tres |
| Publication place: | Augsburg |
| Publication date: | 1619 |
| Price fetched: | 0.2.0 |
| Location: | Houghton Library, Harvard, call number GC6.K4436.619d |
| Provenance: | Chasles, Michel (1793-1880) |
| Provenance references: | Houghton Library, Harvard University; Harvard University, Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K: Index (last updated 2009). |
| Annotations: | Inscription on titlepage 'Lib: Rob: Hooke.'; 8 manuscript pages (4 folios) in Hooke's hand interpolated to provide the missing pages 49-56. |
| Other notes: | See figs. 13 and 14 in the editors' Introduction. The Houghton Library purchased this book in 1959 from Libraire Thomas-Scheler in Paris. The missing pages (provided in manuscript by Hooke) are also attached in print at the end of the volume, presumably by a later owner. |
| database ID: | auct_BH_847 |