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, author.

Contributor:

Draper, John, engraver.

Shallus, Francis, engraver.

Scot, Robert, 1745-1823, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 36756.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Globes.

Navigation.

Dialing.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Ink.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (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

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 [id est, 1808]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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

"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 pages.

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

Numerous errors in paging.

"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 pages, 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 pages at end.

Advertisement, pages [195], second count.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 36756).

Cited in:

Shipton and Mooney 36756

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 626

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