Lot no. 88
[ASTRONOMY]. Essay on Cosmography. [Circa 1780-1790]. Manuscript, small folio of [2], 119, [3] pp, marbled basane, spine decorated, supralibris at the end: Thierry, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Interesting astronomical manuscript containing a complete course in cosmography: preliminary notions, general division of the stars, uranography, number of constellations, heliography, nature of the planets, comets, geocycly, tropics and polar circles, hydrography, selenography, etc.
Covers and corners missing.
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