Historia Coelestis

Item author: John Flamsteed
Item date: 1712
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Item date acquired: 1979
Item institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Item Provenance
MS annotations in the hand of Edmund Halley, belonged later to SP Rigaud of Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford