FERGUSON, James. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and Optics , London: for A. Millar, 1764, 4°, 23 engraved plates (perforation to title and following leaf, ink-stamps on plate versos, some browning), library buckram -- A new and complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ... the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages by a society of gentlemen , London: for W. Owen, 1763-64, 4 volumes, 8°, second edition, double column, engraved frontispiece, one table and 289 engraved plates (library stamps, some browning), volume I: library buckram, volumes II-IV: contemporary calf (worn, spine of vol. II broken) [cf. Wheeler Gift 384 (first edition)]; and a defective copy of Charles Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (London, 1795, 2 vols.), lacking the plates in volume II. Provenance : I. JCL; II. Samuel T. Smetters (gift label) (7)
FERGUSON, James. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and Optics , London: for A. Millar, 1764, 4°, 23 engraved plates (perforation to title and following leaf, ink-stamps on plate versos, some browning), library buckram -- A new and complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ... the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages by a society of gentlemen , London: for W. Owen, 1763-64, 4 volumes, 8°, second edition, double column, engraved frontispiece, one table and 289 engraved plates (library stamps, some browning), volume I: library buckram, volumes II-IV: contemporary calf (worn, spine of vol. II broken) [cf. Wheeler Gift 384 (first edition)]; and a defective copy of Charles Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (London, 1795, 2 vols.), lacking the plates in volume II. Provenance : I. JCL; II. Samuel T. Smetters (gift label) (7)
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