Banks, John Epitome of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy Kendal 1789
Banks, John. An epitome of a course of lectures and natural or experimental philosophy. Kendal: printed by W. Pennington, 1789. 118 pp. 12mo, 19th-century purple cloth (a bit rubbed). Second edition (though not so designated); first published in 1775, with subsequent printings in 1794 and 1800. An itinerant lecturer's textbook, designed to accompany a course of twelve lectures; the topics covered were the general properties of matter, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics (including the steam engine), electricity, optics, mechanics, geography, and astronomy. It appears from the text that Banks travelled around with a fair amount of scientific apparatus, with which he did illustrative experiments. He evidently toured largely in the north, as all editions of his "epitome" were printed in Kendal. In 1795 he published A Treatise on Mills. Some light foxing, but generally a very good copy of a very scarce Lake District imprint. The ESTC (01/05) lists five copies of this printing (L, C, Lu, LCu; PPL), along with three locations for the 1775 edition (L, O; CSmH), and two of the 1794 edition (L; DSI). Not in the Wheeler Gift Catalogue.
£500
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