Abrégé d'astronomie

Description

Abridgement of astronomy. Paris, Desaint, 1774. First edition of Lalande's abridgement of his own treatise on astronomy, originally published in two volumes in 1761 and enlarged with a new table of the dimensions of the planets and their distances, according to the parallax of the Sun determined by the transit of Venus. Illustrated with 16 folding plates.