Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects, in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling. A new edition, corrected and enlarged, with notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences. By David Brewster. A.M. In two volumes, with a volume of plates. Second American Edition, carefully revised and corrected, By Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, and teacher of natural philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania.

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Title Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects, in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling. A new edition, corrected and enlarged, with notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences. By David Brewster. A.M. In two volumes, with a volume of plates. Second American Edition, carefully revised and corrected, By Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, and teacher of natural philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Signed Author Ferguson's Lectures
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Self-published No
Volumes 2
Pagination I xlvi, 356; II viii, 500
Date of Publication 1814
Edition Statement Second American Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected, By Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematics, and Teacher of Natural Philosophy, In the University of Pennsylvania
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Imprint Printed for and published by M. Carey, no. 121, Chesnut-Street. A. Small, printer.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be It Remembered, That on the tenth day of November, in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1806, Mathew Carey, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling. A New Edition, corrected and enlarged. With Notes and an Appendix, adapted to the present state of the Arts and Sciences, by David Brewster, A.M. In two volumes, with a volume of Plates. Second American Edition, carefully revised and corrected by Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematics, and Teacher of Natural Philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to be authors and propretors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Octavo (8vo)
Length (cm) 22
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The volume of plates has title and imprint: Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's Lectures ... edited and enlarged by David Brewster ... Philadelphia: Printed for and published by M. Carey, no. 121, Chesnut Street. 1814.
Some plates signed: J. Ferguson del.; A. Doolittle sc.
Edition statement transposed; precedes volume enumeration on title page.
Copyright November 10, 1806 by Mathew Carey.
According to Nipps, Lydia R. Bailey printed the letterpress part of v. 3 only, consisting of the title page and two pages of text.
Vol. 1: xlvi, 356 p.; v. 2: viii, 500 p.; volume of plates: [4] p., [93] leaves of plates (some folded); some plates on double leaves.
Error in paging: v. 2, p. 273 misnumbered 723.
"A short account of the life of the author. Written by himself."--v. 1, p. [xv]-xlvi.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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American Antiquarian Society is a made up set. Vol. 1, p. 320-321 mutilated. Vols. 1 and 2 have bookplate of Isaiah Thomas. Vol. 3, the volume of plates, has leather corners missing from upper and lower covers. Inscribed: Joseph Roberts Jr.
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Ferguson, James. Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects, in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling. A new edition, corrected and enlarged, with notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences. By David Brewster. A.M. In two volumes, with a volume of plates. Second American Edition, carefully revised and corrected, By Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, and teacher of natural philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21280, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21280. Accessed 2024-04-28. 

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