TWO LECTURES ON COMETS, READ IN THE CHAPEL OF HARVARD - COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE, NEW-ENGLAND, IN APRIL 1759. ON OCCASION OF THE COMET WHICH APPEAR'D IN THAT MONTH. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONCERNING THE REVOLUTIONS OF THAT COMET, AND OF SOME OTHERS.
Boston: Green & Russell... 1759. 44, xviii pp. Lightly toned, untrimmed. Lacks the half title and final blank, else Near Fine, in modern red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Signature, 'Tho. Pemberton,' at head of title. Winthrop was "America's first astronomer and Newtonian disciple. In April 1759, he delivered a lecture..... More
