Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
JONES, WILLIAM. The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery . . . to which is prefixed; A Short Account of the Solar System . . . Fifth Edition, with Additions, with an Account of the New Discovered Planet, called the Georgium Sidus. 3 folding engraved plates (somewhat browned and offset). [4], 50, [2], 14, 2 pages, including 9 leaves of ads at end. 8vo, contemporary tree calf with morocco lettering piece, spine faded and rubbed. Bookplate of John Browning Harwood of Hammersmith dated 1861. London: W. and S. Jones, 1799

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Bound with: Pasquin, Anthony. The Life of the late Earl of Barrymore . . . Third Edition. [3]-119, [1] pages; lacks half-title. 1793 Vincent, William. A Defence of Public Education . . . Third Edition. 48 pages. 1802 Morrice, David. An Attempted Reply to the Master of Westminster School; or, Reflections suggested by his Defence of Public Education . . . Second Edition. 33, [3] pages, including final ad leaf. 1802 Norie, John William. The Explanation and Use of the Planisphaerium Coeleste, or Map of Zodiacal Stars. 16 pages. 1802.