Ferguson's lectures on select subjects
Subtitle: in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling
Edition: New ed., corr. and enl., with notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences by David Brewster ; in two volumes with a quarto-volume of plates ; this American ed. carefully rev. and corr. by Robert Patterson.
Publisher: Mathew Carey
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Mechanics; Optics; Globes; Sundials; Eclipses
Work titles: Lectures on select subjects
Notes: Includes index.

The quarto volume of plates, mentioned on the t.p. as accompanying the two volumes, was never published. Cf. Shaw, Amer. bibliog.

Imprint of v. 2 varies slightly: ... Sold by Samuel F. Bradford, and Kimber, Conrad and co. Philadelphia ...

Atlas has title: Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's Lectures ...

Plates engraved by Amos Doolittle.

"A supplement to the preceding lectures. By the author": p. [91]-141.