Volume 1: 1. Details respecting the parish and manor of Hartwell: locality, geology, produce, and general statistics; 2. The successive lords of the manor of Hartwell, from the Conquest to the present time: Peverel, De Hertewell, Luton, Hampden, and Lee; 3. Particulars respecting Hartwell House: its appartments, paintings, library, museum, numismata, and Egyptian antiquities; 4. Origin of the Hartwell Observatory. The transit-room. The equatorial tower. Mr Epps's meridional observations. The double-stars measured by Captain Smyth. Encke's comet. The meteorological department; Appendix; Index. Volume 2: 1. Additional remarks in continuation of the first chapter of the Aedes Hartwellianae: introductory matter, the chronographical nomenclature, archaeological collectanea, Hartwell parish, Hartwell rectory and park, the local schools, and reflections on reformatories; 2.The geology, climature, and husbandry around Hartwell, geological notice of the Hartwell area, the weather of Hartwell and its monthly phenomena, on the husbandry around Hartwell, a defence of birds, past and present farm prices; 3. Intersocial and residentiary notices, the general sodality of Hartwell at the Conquest, the Hampdens, the Lees of Quarendon, Sir George Lee, Prince Frederick and the Princess of Wales, the Lees of Colworth, 4. Another visit to the Hartwell museum, a fragment of sculpture, probably by Phidias, Greek inscription on gold, analogies of Egypt and Mexico, certain Egyptian relics, findings in North Africa; 5. Half-a-dozen sketches in the vicinity of Hartwell, concerning cold harbours, on the pursuit of archaeology, and on rubbings, on certain relics found near Aylesbury, on a 'double-faced' brass in stone church, a word more on the 'double-faced' brass, the sieges of boarstall, with relics of Oliver Cromwell still in existence; Appendix. Admiral Smyth's published and privately-printed works in Dr Lee's possession, with notes and remarks in illustration; Alphabetical list of the appendix; Index.