First Edition. 4to; no copy was seen for collation.
Poggendorff I, col. 1510.
Jefferson ordered this book from
Stockdale, writing from Paris on July 1, 1787, and mentioning the publisher and the date: “
Ludlam’s introduction & notes on Bird’s method of dividing astronomical instruments. Sewel. 1786.”
William Ludlam, 1717-1788, English mathematician.
John Bird, English mathematical instrument maker. His book
The Method of dividing Astronomical Instruments
was originally issued in 1767. It was reissued in 1785 with his
The Method of constructing Mural Quadrants . . .
(1768), bound in one volume and supplemented by Ludlam’s work, published at the expense of Alexander Aubert.
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Whitehurst’s attempt towards invariable measures.
iii. [WHITEHURST,
John.]
An Attempt toward obtaining invariable Measures of Length, Capacity, and Weight, from the Mensuration of Time, independent
of the Mechanical Operations requisite to ascertain the Center of Oscillation, or the true Length of Pendulums.
[
London:
1787.]
QE508 .D6
First Edition. 4to. 33 leaves: [ ]
1, B-I
4, 3 engraved folded plates, woodcut illustrations; sig. H
1 has the half-title for the
Appendix to Mr. Whitehurst’s Attempt toward obtaining an invariable Measure. By the Editor, and sig. H
4 for
Three Papers, on different Subjects, from the Philosophical Transactions
; each tract with separate pagination; on I
1 verso of the last tract begins
Account of a Machine for raising Water, executed at Oulton, in Cheshire, in 1772. In a Letter from Mr. John Whitehurst to
Dr. Franklin
.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Lowndes.
John Whitehurst, 1713-1788, English horologer. See also no. 641.
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Plan d’un establissement d’education nationale.
iv. BOURDON
de LA CROSNIÈRE, Leonard Jean Joseph.
Plan d’un établissement d’education nationale, autorisée par arrêt du conseil du 5 Octobre, 1778--Supplément.--Prospectus
d’un plan d’éducation nationale . . .
Orléans: imprimé de
Courset de Villeneuve,
1788.
First Edition. 3 parts in 1. 4to; no copy was seen for collation.
Léonard Jean Joseph Bourdon de la Crosnière, born in 1788,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] French educationalist, was a member of the National Convention.
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v.
Eclaircissements concernant la vigne, les vins etc. par Maupin.
It is not quite clear which of Maupin’s numerous pamphlets on Wine was included in this set of tracts.
Jefferson’s entry reads as above. The entry in the 1849 catalogue reads:
M. Maupin sur la Vigne, les Vins, les Terres, les Grains, &c., &c., 4to: Paris, 1785.
A pamphlet in 8vo. was published in 1784, [also an edition in 1785--
Ed.] of which the title includes “la Vigne, les Vins, les Terres, les Grains”: “Supplément nécessaire à la science des académies
. . . ou nouvelle demonstration . . . de mes principales découvertes concernant la vigne, les vins, les cidres, les terres,
les grains, les bois . . . par M. Maupin. Paris: Musier, 1784.”
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