LECTURES ON SELECT SUBJECTS IN MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, OPTICS, AND ASTRONOMY. BY JAMES FERGUSON, F.R.S. A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION, ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF SCIENCE, BY C.F. PARTINGTON . . . (Spine title: "Ferguson's Lectures.")

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776. C.F. Partington [Charles Frederick Partington], ?-1857.

Published by London: Published by Sherwood and Co. Paternoster Row, 1825.

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i-ii, [frontis], iii-xiv, xvii-xlvii, [1], 1-90, Plate II, 91-104, Plate I, 105-136, Plate III, 137-332, Plate IV, 333-342, Plate V, 343-352, Plate VI, 353-438, Plate VII, 439-442, Plate VIII, 443-450, Plate IX, 451-452, Plate X, 453-463. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 13.25cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; boards rubbed with some peeling to rear board's surface leather; board edges originally had gilt tooling but now mostly flaked/rubbed away; 6cm loss of surface leather at spine head with near matching slender separation to front joint (hinge is solid); edge losses to spine's black title label but with bright gilt lettering still intact. Past owner's pencil signature "C.R. Stark" at front pastedown's top left (Christopher Randolph Stark, 1880-1971, was a professor of mathematics at Mississippi State University for fifty-five years); illegible/faded antiquarian ink writing on front free endpaper; mostly mild toning/foxing throughout with strongest occurrences to book's b/w plates and their adjacent pages. Binding remains firm.

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• Title: LECTURES ON SELECT SUBJECTS IN MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, OPTICS, AND ASTRONOMY. BY JAMES FERGUSON, F.R.S. A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION, ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF SCIENCE, BY C.F. PARTINGTON . . . (Spine title: "Ferguson's Lectures.")
• Publisher: London: Published by Sherwood and Co. Paternoster Row, 1825.
• Binding: Hardcover
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