The Description and Uses of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; and of Collins's Pocket Quadrant

by John Harris

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First edition

First edition. Frontispiece. 4 , 62, 4 ad pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked. Some distressing to boards, but a clean and crisp copy. ESTC T146887. Item #318142 The first edition of one of the most popular works on globes of its era, which went through some 20 editions in the 18th century. Harris was influential as a teacher of mathematics and an expositor of Newtonian science. This work was originally

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