Live auction - Lot 616
[Astronomy]
Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1721. Au méridien de Paris, publiée par l'ordre de l'Académie Roïale des sciences, et calculée par M. Lieutaud, de la même Académie.
LIEUTAUD, Jacques
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Lot description
Paris, J. Mariette (widow of A. Lambin press), 1720
12mo: front.-191 pp.; 2 pl.
Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine.
Ephemerids for the year 1721, calculated by the French astronomer and mathematician J. Lieutaud (1660-1733). Illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 fold. plates (constellations and craters on the moon) and 1 ill. in text. It is part of a collection published by the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1679 with variants in the title.
Prov. Xavier Duquenne, 1951 (ms. entry).