The levelling balance and counter-balance, or, The method of observing, by the weight and height of mercury on any place of terra-firma on the terrestial globe, the exact weight and altitude of the atmosphere below and above the place of observation
Subtitle: thereby to ascertain how much the horizon of the sea is lower than the place whereon the observation is made
Contributors: Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury ...
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Barometric hypsometry
Other titles: Levelling balance and counter-balance; Method of observing, by the weight and height of mercury on any place of terra-firma on the terrestial globe, the exact weight and altitude of the atmosphere below and above the place of observation
Notes: Added engraved title page.

Dedication signed: William Gerard de Brahm.

Nine of the plates are engraved tables.

Signatures: pi² a-b² B-G² [H]1.

Errata: [1], 2nd group of paging.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

With: De Brahm, John Gerar William. De Brahm's zonical tables for the twenty-five northern and southern climates ... London : Printed for the author by T. Spilsbury ..., MDCCLXXIV [1774]. Separately issued.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3716

ESTC T144842