The preliminary dissertation to the "Mechanism of the heavens." /
Somerville, Mary,1780-1872.
Somerville, Mary,1780-1872,donor.StEdNL
Ferguson, Hamilton Nesbit,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed by W. Clowes, Stamford Street.,
MDCCCXXXI. [1831]
One of a very limited number of copies printed for private circulation.--title page.
Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "To Mr Hamilton Nesbit Ferguson from Mary Somerville". Accompanied by a loose newpaper cutting from the Scotsman (25/11/1922) featuring a profile by James Baird of Mary Somerville.
Celestial mechanics.
England London.