A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar ... the Astronomical Part by James Ferguson ... to Which Have Been Added, the Late Discoveries of Dr. Herschel ... the Eighteenth Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged.

Publisher Marketing: Title: A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar ... The astronomical part by James Ferguson ... To which have been added, the late discoveries of Dr. Herschel ... The eighteenth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Guthrie, William; Ferguson, James; Herschel, William; 1801. 8 . 795.h.31. Contributor Bio:  Guthrie, William William Guthrie is a student of the human condition, wielding the written craft to enrapture the mind much like an artist wields a brush. The pages are a blank canvas on which to draw from a talent heralded by many and matched only by an imagination that rises to the task. "David and Jonathan" is the third in a series of recent pursuits, with work progressing quickly on the follow-upContributor Bio:  Ferguson, James James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of "The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho" (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of "Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science" (California, 1997) and "Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology" (1997).