Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, Explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies

Author Jehoshaphat Aspin American

Publisher Samuel Leigh British

Printer Samuel & Richard Bentley British

1825

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Title: Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, Explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies
Author: Jehoshaphat Aspin (American, active 18th–19th century)
Publisher: Samuel Leigh (British, active 1812–30)
Printer: Samuel & Richard Bentley (London)
Date: 1825
Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving, some hand coloring
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 3/16 x 13/16 in. (21 x 13.2 x 2 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
Object Number: 1970.565.591
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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