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A description of the passage of the shadow of the moon, over England, in the total eclipse of the sun, on the 22nd day of April 1715 in the morning

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Type of record: Book

Title: A description of the passage of the shadow of the moon, over England, in the total eclipse of the sun, on the 22nd day of April 1715 in the morning

Level: Piece

Classmark: Leeds Phil. and Lit. Z fol/MIS

Creator(s): Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

Publisher: sold by I. Senex... sold also by William Taylor

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1715

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 map

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/dfxj49q1

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/251627

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015985409705181

Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

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With explanatory letterpress, signed by Edmond Halley.

Additional description

With twenty other maps and plates, in folder labelled "Misc. maps. Leeds Phil & Lit Soc". Contents: Smith, T.H.: A new plan of the town of Nottingham..., 1820. -- Witchell, G.: A map of the passage of ye moon's shadow ..., 1764. -- Halley, E.: A description of the passage of the shadow of the moon ..., 1715. -- Kauffer.: A map of the plain of Troy ..., 1803. -- Plan of the combin'd attacks by land and sea ..., 1782. -- Andrews, I.: Andrews's seat of war on the Rhine ..., [ca. 1790]. -- Plan of the town and fortifications of Gibraltar, [ca. 1780]. -- Lodge, J.: Plan of the town and fortifications of Gibraltar, [ca. 1780]. -- Bartholomew, J.: The world, on Sir J. Herschel's projection ..., [ca. 1870?]. -- Stanger, W.: Sketch of Natal ..., 1848. -- A sketch of Cape Town ..., [ca. 1800]. -- Martin, B.: A view of the solar system ..., 1757. -- A new chart of the vast Atlantic Ocean ..., 1755. -- Chipchase, J.: Stockton in 1828, 1828. -- [Prairies from Red River ...], [ca. 1900?]. --
Nicollet, J.F.: Hydrographical basin of the upper Mississippi River ..., 1843. -- Jeffreys, T.: A map of the Thracian Bosphorus ..., [ca. 1780?]. -- Jeffreys, T.: A map of the Propontis, [ca. 1780?]. -- Cary, J.: A map of Hindoostan ..., 1792. -- Holmes, I.: Rhetorick epitomiz'd ..., 1738. -- Bower, A.: Plan of the town & harbour of Kingston-upon-Hull, 1786. -- Nolli, G.: A plan of Rome ..., 1750

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