(WOMEN IN SCIENCE) A Compendious System of Astronomy… Illustrated the folding plates.

 Ad: Mrs. BRYAN receives young ladies, for the purpose of education, at Bryan House, Blackheath

(EDUCATION)Bryan, Margaret. A compendious system of astronomy, and a course of familiar lectures, in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics; also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and it vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures, which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them. Third edition. Revised and corrected by the authorize author. London: printed, by C. & W. GALABIN,… 1805.

Frontispiece engraving the author with her two daughters and scientific instruments; xxii, (2 leaves—errata & Advertising notice reading “Mrs. BRYAN receives young ladies, for the purpose of education, at Bryan House, Blackheath.”); 398 pages + 2 p. publishers list, WYNNE and SCHOLEY. The vocabulary section has illustrations in the text. Frontispiece+17 plates, including folding maps of celestial hemispheres.

Early owner's inscription on end paper, Joseph C Robinson. Titusville, Pennsylvania.

Condition: Both covers detached, contemporary tree calf. Some foxing, a bit heavier on plates, particularly the frontispiece which is also toned.

"Margaret Bryan (fl. 1815) was an English natural philosopher and educator, and the author of standard scientific textbooks. She was schoolmistress of a school located at various times in Blackheath, at Cadogan Place, and in Margate at Bryan House above the yet to be discovered Margate Caves. Her first known work was Compendious System of Astronomy (1797), collecting her lectures on astronomy. She later published Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806), a textbook on the fundamentals of physics and astronomy, and an Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for Schools, a thin octavo, in 1815." Wikipedia