Lot 270
Science, Economics & Engineering, 4 volumes comprising
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
Gregory, David A treatise of practical geometry... Edinburgh: Balfour, Auld, and Smellie, 1769. Seventh edition, 8vo, prize inscription: awarded to Alan Malcolm by his Grace the Earl of Kinnoul, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, "For outstanding merit in the scientific arts...", 1772, contemporary calf [ESTC T176493, listing 4 copies of this seventh edition]; [Swinton, John] A proposal for uniformity of weights and measures in Scotland. Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1789. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf [ESTC T62600]; MacKay, Andrew The description and use of the sliding gunter in navigation. Aberdeen: printed for the author by J. Burnett, 1802. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf ; Marshall, J. Digest of all the accounts relating to the population, productions, revenues, financial operations, manufactures, shipping, commerce &c. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. London: J. Haddon, 1834. Large 4to, original wrappers, Ipswich Borough Libraries stamps, worn (4)