Traite de l'astronomie Indienne..

by Jean Sylvain Bailly

$1,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Chez Debure, 1787. 4to. 4 , clxxx, 427, 1 pp. FIRST EDITION. With decorative woodcut headpieces. Contemporary half-calf over boards; occasional browning, otherwise an excellent copy from the library of Jacob and Friedrich Schurer with their bookplate. Item #322 First edition of Bailly's valuable history of Eastern astronomy which was separately published as a supplement to his

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