THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPY Adapted To the Capacities of Young Ladies and Gentlemen and Familiarised and Made Entertaining By Objects with which they Are intimately Acquainted Being the Substance of Six Lectures

Telescope, Tom and William Magnet

Edité par Ogilvy and Speare, Middle-Row, Holborn, London, 1794

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[ii contents], 136, [iv]pp. Originally written in 1762 by 'Tom Telescope' [John Newbury] this revised edition by William Magnet. 14x9cms. Full calf with the front board detached but present. Illustrated with 5 copperplates including a fine frontis. depicting an observatory on a hill at night. Woodcuts to the text. A very crisp text block of an early childrens science book. Morocco label present but safely loosely enclosed within the text block. The bookplate of Esther Acklom with a gift inscription to her at the head of the reverse of the frontis. Given by The Rev. Ingram 1797. Esther Acklom of Wiseton Hall married the Viscount Althorp who became the third Earl Spencer. N° de réf. du vendeur GT866

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Titre : THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPY Adapted To...

Éditeur : Ogilvy and Speare, Middle-Row, Holborn, London

Date d'édition : 1794

Reliure : Hardback

Etat : V.g.

Edition : New Edition