Live auction - Lot 616
[Astronomy]
Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1721. Au méridien de Paris, publiée par l'ordre de l'Académie Roïale des sciences, et calculée par M. Lieutaud, de la même Académie.
Paris, J. Mariette (widow of A. Lambin press), 1720
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
12mo: front.-191 pp.; 2 pl.
Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine.
Ephemerids for the year 1721, calculated by the French astronomer and mathematician J. Lieutaud (1660-1733). Illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 fold. plates (constellations and craters on the moon) and 1 ill. in text. It is part of a collection published by the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1679 with variants in the title.
Prov. Xavier Duquenne, 1951 (ms. entry).