1769 · London:
by MARTIN, Benjamin (1704-1782).
London:: J. and F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, G. Keith, W. Johnston, Hawes, Clarke, and Collins; S. Crowder, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, and Robinson and Roberts, 1769., 1769. 8vo. [viii], 362, [6] pp. 26 folding plates, index; worming to the bottom of the text, but text is unharmed. Original speckled gilt-stamped calf, red leather gilt-stamped spine label, raised bands. Very good. Seventh edition, "with Alterations, Corrections, and very large Additions, by Way of Notes." An early book of Newtonian natural philosophy, it is divided into four parts: Somatology (the nature of properties and matter), Cosmology, Aerology (properties of the atmosphere), and Geology.
(Inventory #: SW1556)