[KEILL, J.], Institutions Astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d’Astronomie, Pour servir d’introduction à la Physique Céleste, & á la Science des Longitudes, Avec de nouvelles Tables d’Équation corrigées; et particulierement les Tables du Soleil, de la Lune & des Sat

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Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1746, 4to., full marbled leather binding with ribbed and gold tooled spine, titleplate on spine, red coloured edges, marbled endpapers, the original reading ribbon still in place, the edges of the binding show faded traces of goldttooling, [6]+64+660 pp., corners of the covers are worn, a tear in some pages, a few wormholes in the first section, some foxing, some (partly browned pages), but otherwise the book is in good condition with a solid construction and beautiful fold out engravings. Decorative woodcut vignette on the titlepage, along with some woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, with 15 fold out plates (Dheulland sculp.) and several tables, for instance concerning the fases of the moon. There are some contemporary notes on the flyleaf, on the titlepage and on a textpage.