St John's College W.77

J.D. Peake, Notes for the lectures of Adam Sedgwick. English, nineteenth century.

[John Dawson Peake (1830-1905)]: autograph notebook for the lectures given by the British geologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873). Peake was a student of St John’s College, from 1848 to 1852.

Manuscript extra information

214x135 mm. Folio approx. [28] pages; the remaining three-quarters of the book are blank. Paper. Leather-backed pasteboards, with marbled endpapers. Includes College bookplate on inside front board. Given by David Mitchell, 1995.