Jean-Charles HOUZEAU
Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie ou Catalogue méthodique des Ouvrages, des mémoires et des Observations astronomiques publiés depuis l'origine de l'imprimerie jusqu'en 1880[General Bibliography of Astronomy, or a Systematic Catalogue of Books, Papers and Astronomical Observations Published from the Invention of Printing to 1880]
Xavier Havermans et F. Hayez|Brussels 1882-1887|18.2 x 27.7 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this essential work on the subject.
The first volume is illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author hors texte; the second contains one folding plate hors texte.
Contemporary half aubergine sheep bindings, smooth spines slightly faded and tooled with gilt and blind fillets, a few scuffs to the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
€1,000