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Front, leather binding of the book.

New binding of A Compendious System of Astronomy

The spine of the book

Title page of Margaret Bryan's A Compendious System of Astronomy

Bryan's catalogue of the constellations in the Southern Hemisphere with lists of the constellation names and numbers of stars in which each constellation is composed of.

Detailed diagram of northern hemisphere constellations

The beginning of Bryan's long subscription list. The list is composes of various patrons to Bryan's textbooks, including the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bryan's compilation of mathematical and astronomical terms

Outline of one of the copper plates used to make the imprint of the diagram.

Wear on the pages of Anatomical Tables of the Human Body by William Cheselden (Boston, 1796).