A synopsis of the astronomy of comets
By: by Edmund Halley ... ; translated from the original, printed at Oxford
Contributors: Senex, John, d. 1740, publisher; Burndy Library
Publisher: Printed for John Senex ...
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Comets; Early works to 1800; Orbits
Other titles: On comets
Work titles: Astronomiae cometicae synopsis
Notes: First published as Astronomiae cometicae synopsis (in Royal Society of London. Philosophical transactions v. 24, Mar. 1705). See R.S. Freitag, Halley's comet, no. 1185.

Signatures: pi1 A-C⁴.

Tables: p. 7-11; diagram: p. 12.

Publisher's advertisement on p. 24.

ESTC (online) T113781

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 12

SCDIRB copy 39088015653660 is bound with: Halley, E. A compendious view of the astronomy of comets. London : Printed for J. Millan, MDCCLVII [1757]. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has a modern greenish-blue paperboard binding with white-painted spine; title inked on spine. The leaves have holes at gutter, showing where the pamphlet was once stab-sewn.