Ferguson’s Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling. With Notes and an Appendix, Adapted... by David Brewster, A.M. The Second Edition.
Edinburgh : Printed for Bell & Bradfute, J Fairbairn; Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson... et al. 1806. 8vo, 3 vols, lxviii, 442, [1] + x, 518, [2] pp, + 50 folding plates (numbered 1-23, 1-13, 1-14), modern marbled boards with morocco spines, the plates quite heavily foxed, otherwise a sound copy.
The famous Ferguson Lectures, enlarged and “adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences” by David Brewster (1781-1868)
Stock No: HMF1366
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