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Daguerre Savoie

17 - (Astronomy): 5 volumes
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(Astronomy): 5 volumes - FLAMMARION (Camille). Popular Astronomy. A General Description of the Sky. An illustrated work containing 360 figures, chromolithographic plates, star charts, etc. Paris, Marpon and Flammarion, 1881. In-4, [5 ff], 839 pp, brown half-shagreen with ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons (contemporary binding). 7 insert plates, some double-page, and 1 folding star chart. A fine copy. - NELLEN (H.J.M.). Ismaël Boulliau (1605–1694). Astronomer, letter-writer, short-story writer and scientific intermediary: his connections with the circles of ‘erudite libertinism’. With a bibliography and an index of names. Amsterdam, 1994. In-8, XII, 608 pp, frontispiece. Publisher’s cloth binding. The first monograph devoted entirely to a forgotten astronomer. Correspondence exchanged by Boulliau with five scholars, including Heinsius. - CARLI (A.) and A. FAVARO. Bibliografia Galileiana (1568–1895). An annotated collection. Rome, 1896 (Reprint, 1998). In-8, VIII, 402 pp, [1 f], publisher’s cloth binding. Reprint printed in a small run. Highly scholarly reviews of Galileo’s works and the studies they inspired. - STEVENSON (Edward Luther). Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, their history and construction, including a consideration of their value as aids in the study of Geography and Astronomy. New Haven, Hispanic Society of America, 1921 (Reprint, 2001). 2 volumes in one large in-8 volume, XXIV, 218 pp and XI, 291 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. A history of terrestrial and celestial globes from antiquity to the end of the 18th century. It remains the definitive work on the subject. The 143 full-page illustrations are reproduced. - HOUIZEAU (J.C.). Vade-mecum de l’astronome. Brussels, Hayez, 1882 (Reprinted by Martino, 2002). Sturdy in-8, publisher’s cloth binding. 1,144 pp.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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