Astronomy Or, The Principles of The Solar System Illustrated and Explained in a Familiar and Comprehensive Manner. With Observations on The Comet of 1807 and a Copius Chart of Astronomical Occurances From the Earliest Times. The first stand alone work from his 4 volume "Encyclopedia"

William Enfield. (Assisted by others)

Published by Thomas Tegg, London., 1809

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IX pp + 329 pages with 4 folding plates, one being a chart, this has some damage and an astronomical clock which has an overlay disc depicting the constellations which revolve, (all complete and very good). Some offsetting at plates and some age browning to some pages, but all in firm and clean order. Marbled paper boards and leather spine, rubbed and small split started at bottom of the spine, later front endpapers? Also an old ink covering hiding the "volume 1" very subtly done on the spine, almost not noticed and NOT recent. Contents near Very good. bound in 6's. Approx 5.7 x 4 inches. Very Scarce. NOTE: *A copy with the same title and separate title at that on the OCLC in Stanford University as number 655985789 in their catalogue and a date of 1809. The book does stand alone as a work on Astronomy for youth another 9 subjects in the series were issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Astronomy Or, The Principles of The Solar System Illustrated and Explained in a Familiar and Comprehensive Manner. With Observations on The Comet of 1807 and a Copius Chart of Astronomical Occurances From the Earliest Times. The first stand alone work from his 4 volume "Encyclopedia"
• Publisher: Thomas Tegg, London.
• Publication Date: 1809
• Binding: Quarter Leather
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sciences
  • Children's Books.