DICQUEMARE (Jacques-François). La Connoissance de l'Astronom - Lot 759

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DICQUEMARE (Jacques-François). La Connoissance de l'Astronom - Lot 759
DICQUEMARE (Jacques-François). La Connoissance de l'Astronomie, rendue aisée & mise à la portée de tout le monde. Seconde édition, augmentée par l'Auteur, & enrichie de vingt-six planches en taille-douce. Paris, Lottin le Jeune, 1771. In-8 marbled calf, smooth ornate spine, title page in green marble (contemporary binding). Expanded second edition; the first appeared in 1769 under the title "Idée générale de l'Astronomie". Complete with 26 engraved plates. A fine copy. Naturalist and professor of experimental physics at Le Havre, Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789) was the inventor of the Cosmoplane (a kind of flattened globe mounted on two moving concentric disks, to solve nautical astronomical problems). Ex-libris J.M. (Frère I, 362.)
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