Annales celestes du dix-septieme siecle

by A-G Pingre, M. G Bigourdan

$650 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901. 4to. xi, 1 , 628 pp., including half-title and index. With hundreds of astronomers referenced. Original printed wrappers, rebacked; very lightly browned, but generally an excellent copy, uncut and mostly unopened. Item #2571 First edition of one of the most important astronomical histories of the seventeenth century. In 1786 Pingre's Projet d'une histoire d'astronomie du dix-septieme siecle

• Binding: Wrappers

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