FERGUSON James — Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics. With the Use of Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses

London, printed for A.Millar, in the Strand vii + [i] + 252 + [iv] pp.+ 23 folding engraved plates (depicting many scientific and mechanical instruments), 1st edition, 26cm., contemporary full-leather binding (joints with some old profesionnal repairs, back joint slightly broken at lower end), pages with some browning though text is still bright, some occasional foxing, handwritten ex-libris on title page: "de Schuldorff, London 1778", good condition, W88555