August 1849

Manuscript letter to an unnamed recipient (probably William Mann) Cape Observatory. Four page autograph letter , from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) was a British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

190mm x 160mm unfolded.

R4,500