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Description and use of the celestial and terrestrial globes, and of Collins's pocket-quadrant

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Description and use of the celestial and terrestrial globes, and of Collins's pocket-quadrant
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Description	By John Harris.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.79.105(2)
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1747 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Globes (cartographic spheres) Astronomical instruments
Person / organisation:	Harris, John, 1667?-1719 [Author] Ward, Aaron, -1747 [Publisher]
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