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Ferguson (James): A Dissertation upon the Phaenomena of the Harvest Moon, Also the Description and Use of a New Four-Wheel'd Orrery, 8vo, for the Author, 1747, three folding engraved plates after Ferguson -- [Grove (Joseph)]: An Answer to Mr. Ferguson's Essay upon the Moon's Turning Round Its Own Axis, 8vo, for J. Roberts, 1747, three engraved plates -- Kennedy (John): An Examination of the Reverend Mr. Jackson's Chronological Antiquities, 8vo, for Lockyer Davis, 1753 ; The Doctrine of Commensurability Between the Diurnal and Annual Motions, for Lockyer Davis, 1753, four works in one vol., contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (rubbed at extremities); and another by Ferguson. (2)