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LOYS DE CHESAUX, Jean Philippe (1718-1751). Traité de la comète qui a paru en decembre 1743 & en janvier, fevrier & mars 1744. Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1743.
8° (195 x 122mm). Title in red and black, 6 folding engraved plates, 2 folding tables, one engraved headpiece. (Plates 1-3 lightly browned, table on L4 cropped with slight loss, some light browning, occasional light spotting.) Modern binding using old vellum (lightly soiled, new free endpapers). Provenance: stamp removed at foot of title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this detailed account of a comet which first appeared in December 1743 and remained visible until March 1744. De Chéseaux, a wealthy Swiss landowner, mathematician and astronomer with his own private observatory, describes this comet in depth, which became brighter than Jupiter and at one time exhibited no fewer than six tails. Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
8° (195 x 122mm). Title in red and black, 6 folding engraved plates, 2 folding tables, one engraved headpiece. (Plates 1-3 lightly browned, table on L4 cropped with slight loss, some light browning, occasional light spotting.) Modern binding using old vellum (lightly soiled, new free endpapers). Provenance: stamp removed at foot of title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this detailed account of a comet which first appeared in December 1743 and remained visible until March 1744. De Chéseaux, a wealthy Swiss landowner, mathematician and astronomer with his own private observatory, describes this comet in depth, which became brighter than Jupiter and at one time exhibited no fewer than six tails. Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
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