Astronomical & geographical essay: containing, I. A ... view,on a new plan, of the general principles of astronomy. II. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes ... III. The description and use of the most improved planetarium, tellurian, and lunarium. IV. An introduction to practical astronomy
An instructional treatise on astronomy, globes, and planetarium instruments by the London instrument maker George Adams, reprinted in Philadelphia in 1808 for American students and self-teachers. Alongside its technical plates sit small wood-engraved tailpieces: a symmetrical rose-and-foliage sprig, and two putti reading in a rough landscape, both cut in open line with visible hatching, useful as chapter ornaments, spot decorations, or borrowed figure vignettes.
