Title: Edmundi Halleii astronomi dum viveret regii Tabulæ astronomicæ Author: Halley, Edmond Place: London Publisher: Apud Gulielmum Innys Date: 1749 Description: [330] pp. incl. errata leaf at rear. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait. (4to) 29x23 cm (11½x9¼"), rebound in modern cloth, morocco spine label, new endpapers. First Edition. Though completed in 1719, these tables did not appear in print for thirty years. They were soon translated into English and French. "The lunar tables represent the theory of the motion of the Moon as Newton gave it in the second edition of Principia" (Cook, Halley, p.366). Each of the tables are numbered in ink in the present copy, totaling 251 in all; the remaining pages are text. Bookplate of I. Bernard Cohen Lot Amendments Condition: Some occasional light marginal dampstaining, mostly at the back of the book, errata leaf with tape repair along fore-edge; very good. Scarce in the trade. Item number: 286244
Title: Edmundi Halleii astronomi dum viveret regii Tabulæ astronomicæ Author: Halley, Edmond Place: London Publisher: Apud Gulielmum Innys Date: 1749 Description: [330] pp. incl. errata leaf at rear. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait. (4to) 29x23 cm (11½x9¼"), rebound in modern cloth, morocco spine label, new endpapers. First Edition. Though completed in 1719, these tables did not appear in print for thirty years. They were soon translated into English and French. "The lunar tables represent the theory of the motion of the Moon as Newton gave it in the second edition of Principia" (Cook, Halley, p.366). Each of the tables are numbered in ink in the present copy, totaling 251 in all; the remaining pages are text. Bookplate of I. Bernard Cohen Lot Amendments Condition: Some occasional light marginal dampstaining, mostly at the back of the book, errata leaf with tape repair along fore-edge; very good. Scarce in the trade. Item number: 286244
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