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FLAMSTEED, John (1646-1719). Atlas Céleste publié en 1776 par J. Fortin ... troisième édition. Paris: Lamarche, 1795. 8° (221 x 144mm). 30 double-page engraved plates. (Some worming to preliminaries and C-F4 touching text, minor worming to margins of first 13 plates, touching image on first 9, light spotting at beginning and end.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (these rubbed, spine with some loss). Provenance: contemporary manuscript annotations with flourishes to verso of plates.
Second edition in French, the third edition after the first in English of 1729. When first published, the atlas represented a new era in celestial cartography, recording the stars Flamsteed observed using equatorial and ecliptic co-ordinates. For the French edition, Fortin reduced the size of the maps, and the location of the stars were fixed for 1780 instead of 1690, the date which Flamsteed had used. Fortin also added to this edition new discoveries made by Lalande. Brunet II, 1280.
Second edition in French, the third edition after the first in English of 1729. When first published, the atlas represented a new era in celestial cartography, recording the stars Flamsteed observed using equatorial and ecliptic co-ordinates. For the French edition, Fortin reduced the size of the maps, and the location of the stars were fixed for 1780 instead of 1690, the date which Flamsteed had used. Fortin also added to this edition new discoveries made by Lalande. Brunet II, 1280.