£380
Enlightenment Mathematics and Astronomy. An 18th c sammelband of four works, comprising Ferguson (James), Astronomical Tables and Precepts [...], first edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1763, 63pp, errata slip pasted on final leaf, 1 folding engraved plate, which is somewhat tatty, [bound with] Stone (The Reverend Edward), The Whole Doctrine of Parallaxes Explained and Illustrated by an Arithmetical and Geometrical Construction of the Transit of Venus Over the Sun, June 6th, 1761 [...], first edition, Oxford: Printed for J. Fletcher in the Turle, et al., 1763, 108pp, in-text diagrams, [with] West (The Late Rev. Mr. Wm., of Exeter) & Rowe (John), Mathematics, ?second edition, London: Printed by J. Kippax, et al., 1762, pp: [viii], 85, [3], 11 folding engraved plates, clean impressions, a few a trifle tatty around the edges, [&] Le Paute (Madame [Nicole-Reine]), Explication de la carte, Qui représente le Passage de l'Ombre de la Lune au travers de l'Europe dans l'Eclipse de Soleil Centrale & Annulaire, du premier Avril 1764, s.l., s.n., n.d., 8pp only, bound as one in contemporary calf, joints split but holding, light wear and bumps, otherwise sound, MS paper shelf number to tail of spine, red speckled edges, 8vo
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