Live auction - Lot 1298

[Astronomy]

CASSINI, Jacques; CASSINI de THURY, César-François

Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne; avec l'explication et l'usage de ces mêmes tables. [- Addition aux tables astronomiques de M. Cassini].

Paris, Imprimerie royale [- Durand], 1740 [-1756]

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4to: xiv-[6]-120-222; [4]-98 pp. (5 folding pl. by Simonneau missing, pp. 81-84 bound upside down, pp. 179 before 177).

Contemp. red leather, marbled paper covers (sl. used).

1st ed. of J. Cassini's Tables, originally intended as a complement to his "Elémens d’astronomie" (Paris, 1740). J. Cassini measured in 1713 the arc of the meridian from Dunkirk to Perpignan and published the first tables of the satellites of Saturn in 1716. With the finely engraved headpiece by H.S. Thomassin (1688-1741). Incl. the 1756 addition to the tables by C.-Fr. Cassini de Thury.
Ref. Houzeau & Lancaster 12793 + 12799.

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Lot 1298

Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne; avec l'explication et l'usage de ces mêmes tables. [- Addition aux tables astronomiques de M. Cassini].

CASSINI, Jacques; CASSINI de THURY, César-François

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