Astronomical & geographical essays: : containing, I. A full and comprehensive view, on a new plan, of the general principles of astronomy. II. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes, exemplified in a greater variety of problems, than are to be found in any other work. III. The description and use of the most improved planetarium, tellurian, and lunarium. IV. An introduction to practical astronomy. / By the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, and optician to the Prince of Wales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, George, 1750-1795.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Globes.

Navigation.

Dialing.

Penn Provenance:

Wister, John, fl. 1810 (autograph)

Physical Description:

xvi, 194 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-238 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-148 pages, xvi folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition. With the author's last improvements, illustrated with elegant copper-plates.

Place of Publication:

Whitehall [Pa.]: : Printed for William Young, bookseller and stationer n. 52 South 2d. Street, Philadelphia., 1800 [that is, 1808]

Notes:

A reissue of the first part of the fourth edition (1800), together with the fifth edition (1808) of parts II-IV.

Signatures: [a]4 b4 C2 D-2D4; pi1 [A]4 B-2F4 2G4(-2G4) 2I-3B4 3C2 (gatherings 3A, 3B, 3C missigned 2A, 2B, 2C).

''N.B. The different essays in this first American edition are printed so as to be bound separately, as may be most agreeable; therefore the folios are arranged accordingly; viz. the numbers on the top of the page, to suit those who wish to bind or purchase separately; the numbers at the foot, those who chuse [sic] the whole in one volume.''--p. viii. The continuous sequence numbers xvi, 194, [12], 195-564 p.

Plates engraved by Robert Scot, Francis Shallus, and John Draper.

Numerous errors in paging.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

''An essay, on the use of the celestial and terrestrial globes; exemplified in a greater variety of problems, than are to be found in any other work; exhibiting the general principles of dialing and navigation ... Fifth edition. With the author's last improvements, illustrated with copper plates. Philadelphia: Published by William W. Woodward, no. 52, South Second Street. 1808. Dickinson, printer.''--[2], viii, [1], 10-238 p., with separate title page. Also issued separately.

''Essay III. Containing a description of the most improved planetarium, lunarium, & tellurian [and] Essay IV. An introduction to practical astronomy.''--[1], 10-148 p. at end.

Advertisement, p. [195], second count.

Cited in:

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 626

OCLC:

19374033