Réflexions sur les Comètes qui peuvent approcher de la Terre

by Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande

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First edition

One engraved plate & one woodcut head-piece vignette. 40 pp. 8vo, attractive modern marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Gibert, 1773. First edition of this famous book which caused a panic in Paris before it was published. Lalande “caused another stir in 1773, when he discussed the possibility of a collision between the earth and a comet. His work on the perturbation of comets by the planets indicated that the orbit of a

• Binding: Leather

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