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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)
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)