Author: ARAGO, FR. and J. A. BARRAL (ed.)
Title: Astronomie populaire. Publiée d'après son ordre sous la direction de J.-A. Barral. Oeuvre posthume.
Description: Paris / Leipzig, Gide & Baudry, resp. T. O. Weigel, Gide & Baudry, resp. T. O. Weigel, 1854-1857. 4 vols. 8vo (21x14 cm.). Contemporary red halfmorocco, spine with ribbons, finely gilt in compartments; marbled endpapers. (corners vol. 4 bumped). Vol. 1:(iv),xii,560 pp. with 8 plates (2 double-page: "Constellations de l'Hémisphère Austral" and "Lunette Observatoire Paris" and 1 folding plate: "L'hémisphère Boréal"); vol. 2:(iv),554 pp. with 13 plates (3 double-page: 2 cross-sections "Observatoire de Paris" and: 1 "Système planetaire des modernes"); Vol. 3:(iv),636 pp. with5 plates, i.a.3 double-page: "La Lune" engraved by Guiguet, "Pole sud" and "Pole nord" engr. by Vuillemin; vol. 4:(iv,854 pp. with 3 plates (2 folding: "Bolides observés par Coulvier" and: "Appareil de Fizeau..."). With brown spots, mainly in the margins and to the plates, otherwise good, complete set with together 29 engraved plates, partly folding or double-page, many illustrations in text. . Gewicht/Weight: 3300 grs.

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