Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, auctore R. P. Ignatio Gastone Pardies Societatis Jesu mathematico. Opus postumum

by Ignace-Gaston Pardies

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Folio 52.5 x 39.4 cm , 1 f. letterpress title page, 1 f. engraved portrait, 2 pp. letterpress dedication including a large engraved headpiece of astronomical instruments and an engraved initial depicting a celestial globe, and 6 double-page engravings with letterpress text in margins in contemporary hand color with stars, nebulas and comets in gold. Bound in contemporary sprinkeled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. Old repairs to board edges and to extremities of spine. Small

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