A NEW TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE GLOBES ; OR A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE EARTH AND HEAVENS

Authors: Keith, Thomas

Categories: Non-fiction

Science

Geography

Children / Youth

Year: 1824

Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row ; and for the Author

Pagination: xxiv, [1]-359, [1] p.

Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.6 cm

City: London

Document Type: Book

Edition: Seventh, Corrected and Improved

Language: English

Printer: A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, London

Preface: [iii]-x 'PREFACE.'

Other Content: [xi]-xxiii 'THE CONTENTS.' Six fold-out plates at the end of the work.

Advertisements: [xxiv] 'In the Press, | A SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, | FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS'. [1] p. 'BOOKS WRITTEN by the Author of this Work'.

Marginalia: Front paste-down endpaper 'Mellows'.

Binding: Brown, full calf. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(line) | (line) | (line) | (line) | (line)'.

Edges: Trimmed

Notes:

Full title: A NEW TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE GLOBES ; OR A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE EARTH AND HEAVENS : COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGURE, MAGNITUDE, AND MOTION OF THE EARTH ; WITH THE NATURAL CHANGES OF ITS SURFACE, CAUSED BY FLOODS, EARTHQUAKES, &C. TOGETHER WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF METEOROLOGY, AND ASTRONOMY ; WITH THE THEORY OF THE TIDES, &C. PRECEDED BY AN EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF ASTRONOMICAL, AND OTHER DEFINITIONS ; AND ILLUSTRATED BY A GREAT VARIETY OF PROBLEMS, QUESTIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE STUDENT, &C. &C. DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH.