DE LA LANDE. Astronomy, second revised and expanded edition. - Lot 104

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DE LA LANDE. Astronomy, second revised and expanded edition. - Lot 104
DE LA LANDE. Astronomy, second revised and expanded edition. Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1771 - 1781. 4 vol. in-4. Full contemporary calf, spine decorated, red morocco title and giblets. Complete with 42 folding plates. Some plates inverted. With the Tables astronomiques calculées pour le méridien de Paris, sur les observations les plus exactes, faites jusqu'à l'année 1770, au tome I. Well completed with the fourth volume published 10 years later. It contains the treatise on the ebb and flow of the sea, according to the theory and the observations - 1 folding plate. Followed by the Memoir on the origin of the constellations, and on the explanation of the fable, by the means of astronomy. Par M. Dupuis ; Supplémens pour l'Astronomie, publiée à Paris en 1771 - 3 folding plates. Small ink stain in the margin of about twenty pages of tables, in volume I. The 4th volume is in a different binding. Fine copies for the first three volumes. Sideswipes and rubbing to the jaws of volume IV.
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