Librairie Antiquaire Emile Kerssemakers – Heerlen
Emile Kerssemakers – Antiquarian Books

Boeknummer: 53865

Astronomie populaire.

Quetelet, A.

H. Tarlier, Libraire-Éditeur, Bruxelles, 1827

€ 400,00

12mo (15x9 cm). Original printed wrappers (soiled, hinges partly dam.). (iv), xiv, 148 pp. Uncut (dog-eared; halftitle browned; first quires (incl. half-ti. & ti.) with large waterstain; brown spots throughout). With 3 folding engravings: 2 with explanatory astronomic figures and 1 large circular (29 cm. across) engraving 'planisphère céleste'. - see Bestor: "hij doceerde in 1827 o.a. een cursus astronomie aan het Museum voor Wetenchappen en Letteren" - Schoolbook, with 18 'leçons', each lesson with questions at the end. - First edition, extremely rare: we found only one copy in National Maritime Museum at Greenwich