LALANDE [Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de]. Astronomy.... - Lot 28 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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LALANDE [Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de]. Astronomy.... - Lot 28 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
LALANDE [Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de]. Astronomy. Second revised and expanded edition. Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1771 and 1781 (vol. 4), 4 vols. 4°, [4]-LVI-608-248 p., 5 folding plates (1 to 5); [4]-830 p., 23 folding plates (6 to 28); [4]-840 p., 14 folding plates (29 to 42), and XII-788 p., 1 plate and 3 (1 to 3) folding plates, uniform full brown calf binding of the period, decorated spines, title and tomaison pieces (several binding snags, traces of handling). Good condition. Very complete 4th vol. published 10 years after the first three. Second edition, revised and considerably enlarged, of Lalande's great Treatise on Astronomy, first published in two volumes in 1764. It is illustrated with 46 folding plates. Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732-1807) is one of the most illustrious French astronomers of the 18th century. (Houzeau-Lancaster, no. 9258; Poggendorff, no. 1349; Querard, IV, 455).
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