An ACCOUNT Of The TRIGONOMETRICAL OPERATION, WHEREBY The DISTANCE BETWEEN The MERIDIANS Of The OBSERVATORIES Of GREENWICH And PARIS Has Been DETERMINED

by Major-general William Roy

$2,500 · Offered by Tavistock Books · No longer available

London : 1790 . 1st separate edition. 162 pp. Illustrated with 11 inserted copperplate engravings & 4 folding tables. Head- tailpieces. 4to: A^2 B - X^4. X4 blank. 11 x 8-7/8 . Period pale green paper wrappers with paper title label to spine. Housed in a handsome quater-calf clamshell case. Lower corner lacking from front wrapper. Spine paper perished at ends. Usual bit of foxing & soiling. Withal, a VG copy in a Fine case. Item #30103

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