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A compendious system of astronomy : in a course of familiar lectures : in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics : also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures : which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them

Title: A compendious system of astronomy : in a course of familiar lectures : in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics : also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures : which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them / by Margaret Bryan.
Author: Bryan, Margaret, active 1815.
Publication: London : Printed for the author, and sold by Leigh and Sotheby ..., and G. Kearsley ..., 1797.

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xxx, [2], 311, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill; 28 cm. (4to)

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Illustrations: 18 engraved plates: frontispiece portrait titled, "Mrs. Bryan and children," engraved by W. Nutter after Samuel Shelley; 17 engravings by T. Conder (4 signed M. Bryan delint.). Numbered I-XV, XV*, XVI.
Signatures: a-c⁴ A-2R⁴ chi1.
List of subscribers: p. xiii-xxx.
Errata: p. [xxxi].

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Bryan, Margaret, active 1815.

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A compendious system of astronomy : in a course of familiar lectures : in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics : also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures : which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them / by Margaret Bryan.

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