Ventes live - Lot 236

[Astronomy]

HASSENFRATZ, Jean-Henri

Cours de physique céleste, ou Leçons sur l'exposition du système du monde [...].

Paris, Briand, 1810

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8vo: xii-368 pp.; 29 pl.

Contemp. cardboard, flat spine (corners bumped, binding shaved). Wide-margined copy, partly uncut.

Later ed. (1st 1803) by Hassenfratz (1755-1827), a French chemist, physics professor, mine inspector, and participant in the French Revolution. Illustrated with 29 engr. folding plates after Hassenfratz by Aboilard and others of which 3 hand-coloured. Hassenfratz studied mining before becoming a deputy inspector of mines. After working in Lavoisier's laboratory he taught physics at the "École des Mines" from 1786-8, and, after the Revolution (in which he was active as a militant democrat and member of the Jacobin Club), physics at the "École Polytechnique" until 1815.
Ref. Poggendorff I:1029. - Houzeau & Lancaster 8951. - BnF.
Joined: Delamarche, Ch.-Fr. - Les usages de la sphère, et des globes céleste et terrestre, précédés d'un abrégé sur les différens systèmes du monde [...]. Paris, Delamarche & Dien, 1821. 8vo: vi-215-[1] pp.; 8 pl. (some ms. scribbling). Contemp. quarter calf (corners def.). Large-margined copy. Astronomical work (1st 1791) by the most succesful French entrepreneur in globemaking Delamarche (1740-1817), successor to N. Sanson, R. de Vaugondy, and R. Bonne, whose atlases he reprinted. lll. with 8 engr. pl. Catalogue of instruments and maps in fine. Ref. BnF. - Not in Houzeau & Lancaster.
Prov. Werner Gunther (bookpl.). (2 vol.)

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Lot 236

Cours de physique céleste, ou Leçons sur l'exposition du système du monde [...].

HASSENFRATZ, Jean-Henri

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