Atlas céleste de Flamstéed, approuvé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences et publié sous le privilège de cette compagnie. Seconde édition. Par M. J. Fortin.

4to: viii-40 pp.; 30 pl. (minor spotting, sl. browning).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. flat spine with a label (sl. worn).

Second edition, but actually a completely revised edition of Flamsteed's great, innovative and highly influential stellar atlas [by P.-C. Le Monnier, F. Pasumot and N.-L. de La Caille] with all plates re-engraved on a much smaller scale turning the atlas as such into a work with much more aesthetic appeal. Contains 30 double-page astronomical maps depicting constellation figures (mythological figures and the signs of the zodiac), including 1 star chart of the northern and 2 of the southern hemisphere (never visible from Europe). Ended with a catalogue of stars (text ruled). Enriched with Jérôme de La Lande's "Nouveau thermomètre", [2] ff. ([Paris], Laurens Jeune, [1803]) (folded).
Ref. BnF. - De La Lande, Bibl. astronomique, pp. 553-554. - DSB V:22-26. - Not in Shirley.