An edition of A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus (1778)

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Printed for E. & C. Dilly
Language
English
Pages
215

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Subjects

Description and travel, Natural history, Transit, Clocks and watches, Cod fisheries, Cod-fisheries, Venus (Planet), Chronometers, Atlantic cod fisheries, Early works to 1800, Chronomètres, Descriptions et voyages, Passage, Ouvrages avant 1800, Descriptions, Planets, Transits, Travel

People

Julien Leroy (1686-1759)

Places

Mexico, Venus (Planet), Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula), Saint Pierre (Island), Salé (Morocco), Baja California, Sallee (Morocco), St. Pierre (Island)

Times

1769
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Cover of: A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus.
A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus.
1977, Printed for E. & C. Dilly
in English
Cover of: A voyage to California to observe the transit of Venus.
A voyage to California to observe the transit of Venus.
1778, Printed for E. & C. Dilly
in English
Cover of: A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus
A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus
1778, Printed for E. and C. Dilly
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Edition Notes

Last page incorrectly numbered 315

"Extract of a letter from Mexico addressed to the Royal academy of sciences at Paris, by Don Joseph Anthony de Alzate y Ramyrez ... relative to the natural history of the country adjacent to the city of Mexico": p. 77-105

Apparently a translation of two works published by Cassini: "Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil, le 3 juin 1769 ... par feu m. Chappe d'Auteroche. Redigé et publié par m. de Cassini fils. Paris, 1772", and "Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1768 et 1769 pour éprouver les montres marines inventées par m. Le Roy. Paris, 1770"

Microfiche (negative) Louisville [Ky.] Lost Cause Press, 1977. 5 sheets. 10.5 x 14.8 cm. ([Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary ...])

Sabin 12004

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London
Series
Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America , from its discovery to the present time -- 12004

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Pagination
4 p. l., 215 p.
Number of pages
215

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OL14539927M

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Miami University of Ohio MARC record

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