Select mechanical exercises, shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles : with several miscellaneous articles, and new tables, I. for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within the limits of 6000 years before and after the 18th century II. for graduating and examining the usual lines on the sector, plain scale, and gunter : to which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author.
by Ferguson, James
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- Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good.
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London.: W. Strahan and T.Cadell., 1773. 1st Edition.. Rebacked with modern brown leather over original leather boards.. Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good.. 8vo., 21.5x13 cm.. A book by the remarkable self-taught Scottish artist, astronomer and clockmaker. weight: 1.3 lb. Nine folding plates.
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- Zephyr Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 290951
- Title
- Select mechanical exercises, shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles : with several miscellaneous articles, and new tables, I. for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within the limits of 6000 years before and after the 18th century II. for graduating and examining the usual lines on the sector, plain scale, and gunter : to which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author.
- Author
- Ferguson, James
- Format/Binding
- Rebacked with modern brown leather over original leather boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. Strahan and T.Cadell.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1773
- Pages
- [12], xliii, [1 errata], 272 pp.
- Size
- 8vo., 21.5x13 cm.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horology;
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Zephyr Books is owned and operated by Lee and Ivye Johnson. We have been in the book business in Reno, Nevada since 1994. We have operated both brick and mortar, as well as online exclusive shops. We closed our brick and mortar shop in 2013, and now offer an exclusive selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian books online only.