Tooled calf, with partial label to spine. Top of spine missing. Front board worn and partially detached. End papers replaced (?). 148 pages.
| Name | "Mechanick Dialling; or, the New Art of Shadows" |
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| Catalog ID | HCM6840 | |
| Year | 1773 | |
| Description | "Mechanick Dialling; | or, the | New ART of SHADOWS | Freed from the many | Obscurities, Superfluities and Errors of | former Writers upon this Subject. | The Whole laid down after so plain a Method that any Person | (though a Stranger to the Art) | With a Pair of Compasses and Common Ruler only, | May make a Dial upon any Plane for any Place in the WOrld, | as well as those who have attained to the greatest Knowledge, | and Perfection in the Mathematics. | Illustrated with many Copper Plates, | AND | Examples of Dials for London, Exeter, Bristol, Worcester, Oxford, | Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Chester, Liverpool, York, | Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Edinburgh, Dublin, &c. | to which are added, | 1. A Collection of above 300 Mottos in Latin and English. | 2. A new and correct Alphabetical Table of the most eminent | |Cities and Towns in the World; shewing the Elevation of | the Pole, and the Difference of their Meridians from London. | 3. The best and most approved Methods of Painting Sun Dials. | A Work not only useful for Artificers, but very entertaining for Gentlemen | and those Students at the Universities, that would understand DIalling, | without the Fatigue of going through a Course of Mathematics. | A New Edition: not only very much improved by the Addtion of | the New Star-Dial, &c. but is the only Book upon the Subject | that has been adapted to the New Stile. | By Mr. CHARLES LEADBETTER | LONDON: | Printed for Thomas Caslon, No. 4, Opposite Stationers-Hall, | LUdgate-Street. M D CC LXXIII. | [Price Three Shillings and Six Pence, bound.]". Tooled calf, with partial label to spine. Top of spine missing. Front board worn and partially detached. End papers replaced (?). 148 pages. |
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| Added | 2026-01-20 14:31:29 (updated 2026-02-25 17:16:07) | |
| Dimensions | 5x8 | |