Charles Pritchard? Late Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford. Memoirs of His Life compiled by his daughter? With an account of his theological work by the Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Worcester and of his Astronomical Work by his Successor Professor H H Turner?

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With a portrait. First edition. 223 x 145mm, fine dark bluish grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, lettered & blocked with observatory design in gilt on upper cover, pp.viii,322, tissue-guarded heliogravure portrait frontispiece, 6pp publisher?s advertisements. Light browning to half-title & final advertisement page. Very good copy. Scarce. Chapter IV is entitled ?Life at Freshwater? and contains (inter alia) quotations from letters from Julia Margaret Cameron (about ?our Freshwater Reading-Room and Literary Association?) and Charles Darwin (concerning the evolution of eyes). N° de ref. del artículo 013910

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