HARRIS, Joseph. The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefixed ... a brief account of the solar system , London: for Thomas Wright and E. Cushee, 1738. 8, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 folding plates by R. Cushee (most plates very lightly browned), contemporary calf gilt (somewhat rubbed). Provenance : signature of Eliz. S. Leger on title and pastedown, dated 8 Dec. 1742; M. Sainsbury, bookplate. Fourth edition. FERGUSON, James. Lectures on Select Subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and opitcs with the use of the globes... , London: T. Longman [and others], 1793. 8, half title, 36 folding engraved plates (most plates with laminated repairs to verso, some with loss, outer margin lightly waterstained throughout, some mainly marginal thumb-soiling and spotting), contemporary calf (rubbed). With 4 other works, including Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's Lectures ... (Edinburgh, 1805), Thomas Keith's A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens (London, 1828) and George Adams' Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a full and comprehensive view, or a new plan, of the general principles of astronomy; to the use of the celestial and terrestrial globes (London, 1812). (6)
HARRIS, Joseph. The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefixed ... a brief account of the solar system , London: for Thomas Wright and E. Cushee, 1738. 8, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 folding plates by R. Cushee (most plates very lightly browned), contemporary calf gilt (somewhat rubbed). Provenance : signature of Eliz. S. Leger on title and pastedown, dated 8 Dec. 1742; M. Sainsbury, bookplate. Fourth edition. FERGUSON, James. Lectures on Select Subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and opitcs with the use of the globes... , London: T. Longman [and others], 1793. 8, half title, 36 folding engraved plates (most plates with laminated repairs to verso, some with loss, outer margin lightly waterstained throughout, some mainly marginal thumb-soiling and spotting), contemporary calf (rubbed). With 4 other works, including Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's Lectures ... (Edinburgh, 1805), Thomas Keith's A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens (London, 1828) and George Adams' Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a full and comprehensive view, or a new plan, of the general principles of astronomy; to the use of the celestial and terrestrial globes (London, 1812). (6)
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