BURNAP (Uzziah C.)

The Youth's Ethereal Director; or a Concise and Familiar Explanation of the Elements of Astronomy; Together with Instructions and Tables for the Calculation and Delineation of Eclipses.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

Designed for the Use of Schools and Acad- emies; and Especially for Such Young Ladies and Gentlemen, as are Unacquainted with the Higher Branches of the Mathematicks.

First edition. Two engraved plates (1 folding) by H.H. Peabody. 8vo. Original sheep-backed marbled boards; light shelfwear, occasional foxing and toning, portion of ffep torn away. 95, [1]pp. Middlebury, [Vt], J.W. Copeland, 1822.

£850.00

An excellent copy of this uncommon Vermont imprint. Inscribed in the front free endpaper: “Doct. C.W. Chandler, Presented by his friend the Author.”

Shaw-Shoemaker, 8218.

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