SMITH GEORGE A Treatise of Comets 1744

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SMITH, GEORGE. A Treatise of Comets. 2 folding engraved plates. [2], 46 pages. 8vo, 192x123 mm, disbound, stapled along gutter edge; title toned and lightly foxed, with stains and chipping in gutter, few pencil marginalia. London: Jacob Robinson, 1744

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scarce first edition of a tract on the nature of comets and historical perceptions of them, written following the appearance of the Great Comet of 1744. ESTC T98926. No copy recorded in ABPC or RBH.