Abrégé d'astronomie

Features

Author:  M. De La Lande

Publisher:  Les Libraires associés

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1775

Product Condition:
Half leather binding with gilt titles and friezes on the spine and hardcover plates, in poor condition: the binding is rather worn with dust spots and abrasions on the plates, edges and corners; woodworm holes and cuts on the hinges, abrasions on the headphones; cut at the bottom and streaks at the spine, on which there is a faded numbered paper slip. Spotted cuts with dust spots. Annotations in pencil on the front cover, on the first blank sheet and on the rear cover. Stamps on title page and in A8 (with signature). Slightly browned papers with rare blooms and with humidity stains of varying extent and intensity that affect the entire volume in a discontinuous manner. Minimal lack in the lower corner in B2 and in the lateral margin in Dd2 without compromising the text. Text in French. Texte en Français.

Pages:  XXXVI,507,(5)

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  20
Width:  13

Description

In the preface the author explains the genesis of this Abregé: his Treatise on Astronomy published in 1764 was intended above all for scholars, but did not satisfy the needs of amateurs, and so here is this Abregé illustrated by 16 folded tables at the end of the volume. The author is the French astronomer Joseph Jérome Lefrançais de La Lande (1732-1807), famous above all for having compiled the most complete star atlas of the time with the position of 47390 stars when he was director of the Paris Observatory, between 1795 and 1801