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(ALMANAC.)
Almanach Royal, Année Bissextile MDCCLXXXVIII.
716
pages. 8vo, 192x121 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt with calf lettering piece, spine
brittle, ends worn; some toning and minor foxing.
Paris: widow d’Houry & Debure, (1787)
[150/250]
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ADAMS, JOHN COUCH.
Bound volume containing 17 offprints or reprints
of papers on astronomy and mathematics,
from Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society except as noted. 8vo, 210x135 mm, late 19th-century
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calf by
Wilson of Cambridge, missing bottom portion of spine, covers detached; contents clean.
Ownership inscription of the astronomer Alexander Freeman (1838-1897) dated 1893,
reading in part, “The whole of these reprints were given to me by the widow of the late
Professor John Couch Adams.” Complete list available on request, or see the online cata-
logue at
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Vp, 1854-1888
[250/350]
“Adams [1819-92] achieved lasting fame as the co-discoverer of the giant planet Neptune by
mathematical calculation. He is remembered for two other major achievements: his memoir on
the secular acceleration of the moon’s mean motion and his determination of the orbit of the
Leonid meteors” (ODNB). BEA, pages 12-13; DSB I, 53-54.
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ALFONSO DE CÓRDOBA.
Tabule Astronomice Elisabeth Regine.
[51] (of [52]) leaves, including blank B8;
lacks last leaf with colophon and printer’s
device. 4to, 213x151 mm, 20th-century
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2
morocco, spine faded, covers slightly
warped; scattered foxing and early mar-
ginalia, single small wormhole throughout
not impairing legibility. Stamp of the
bookseller Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944)
on title and last page.
(Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, 1503)
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
of a collection of astronomical
tables compiled for Isabella I, Queen of Castile
and Aragon, with canons explaining their use.
Houzeau & Lancaster 12712; Palau 61824.
