Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles. The third edition.

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8vo, pp. [xii], xliii, [i], 272 + 9 folding plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine divided by gilt rules, red morocco label, edges sprinkled blue. Some light spotting and soiling, fore-edges of several plates more soiled and chipped, one or two small repairs. Binding rather rubbed, extremities a bit worn, joints cracked, front hinge relined. Ownership inscription of Andrew Pollock (1804) to flyleaf, and pencilled inscription of Thomas Bunyan to half-title and title-page.