Books and Manuscripts

[Lalande, Jerome]
Astronomie par Jerome Le Francais (La Lande)...
Paris: Chez la Veuve Desaint, 1792. In three volumes. Third edition. 4to. (iv), lxvi, 478; (iv), 727; (iv), 737 pp., with half-titles. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait, 44 engraved folding plates, and several in-text charts. Full contemporary mottled brown calf, brown and tan morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed, boards unevenly faded, spines chipping and dry; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; two sheets of contemporary scientific notes laid in; scattered light spotting and foxing to text; some sheets toned; contemporary ownership signature on rear paste-down of third volume. 

Handsome third edition of French astronomer Jerome Lalande's Traité d'astronomie, the standard introductory textbook for a generation of astronomers and scientists. First published in 1764, with a second edition in 1771.