The Celestial Worlds Discoverd Or Conjectures Concerning The Inhabitants Plants And

by Christiaan Huygens

$4,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1722. Small octavo, pp. i-ii iii-vi 1-162, five engraved folded plates, contemporary sprinkled calf, all panels ruled in gold, title in a contemporary hand on the spine panel, all edges sprinkled red. Second edition in English, corrected and enlarged. A major early work on the notion of the plurality of worlds and speculations about life on

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