Astronomical & geographical essays
Subtitle: containing ...
By: by the late George Adams ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Fourth edition / with the author's last improvements, illustrated with elegant copper-plates.
Publisher: Printed for William Young, bookseller and stationer ... Philadelphia
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Whitehall [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Celestial globes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Astronomical and geographical essays
Notes: Evans 36756
"An essay, on the use of the celestial and terrestrial globes" has special t.p.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ C² D-2D⁴, ²pi1 [A]⁴ B-2F⁴ 2G⁴(-2G4) 2I-3B⁴ 3C² (gatherings 3A-3C missigned 2A-2C).
Pages also numbered xvi, 194, [4], viii, 195-564.
"The different essays in this first American edition are printed so as to be bound or purchased in one volume, or 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 the whole in one volume"--P. [viii].
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. A full and comprehensive view, on a new plan, of the general principles of astronomy; title: 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; title: III. The description and use of the most improved planetarium, tellurian, and lunarium; title: IV. An introduction to practical astronomy.