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CASSINI, JACQUES. Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planets, des etoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne. Paris: de l'imprimerie royale, 1740.
4to (248 x 192 mm). 26 engraved plates; engraved head-piece and initial. (Lacking the errata leaf as often, a few small spots or stains to a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some overall wear).
FIRST EDITION of Cassini's collection of astronomical tables. Jacques Cassini succeeded his father as the head of the Paris Observatory. He was a cartesian, and an opponent of Newtonianism. Houzeau & Lancaster 12793.
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum