Les Étoiles, ou Résumé d'astronomie stellaire (extrait de l'Encyclopédie nouvelle)

Rare first edition printed in a small number of copies.

Our copy is preserved in its original blue paper provisional wrappers.

Born at Annonay in 1811, Auguste Bravais entered the École Polytechnique in 1829.

Having become a hydrographic engineer, he undertook several expeditions before embarking, in 1835, aboard the Recherche, dispatched to the Arctic regions in an attempt to locate Blosseville's Lilloise. There he carried out numerous observations in meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, and astronomy.

Appointed Professor of Mathematics Applied to Astronomy at the Faculty of Sciences in Lyon in 1840, he gave up seafaring and devoted himself entirely to astronomical and geodetic research.

A member of the Académie des sciences and Professor at the École Polytechnique, he died at Versailles in 1863, leaving behind a substantial scientific legacy.

Occasional light foxing.

Presentation inscription in the author's hand by Auguste Bravais to the physicist Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) on the upper cover.