LIEUTAUD, Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1727
LIEUTAUD, Jacques.
Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1727 au méridien de paris.
Paris, Jean Mariette, 1727.
12mo (158x99 mm), frontispiece and 188-(8) pages and 3 folding plates. binding : Contemporary full vellum, flat blind spine. Stain on the vellum cover. Edges of paper fringed. Loss of paper on last leave.
First edition.
First published in 1679, this astronomical yearbook was immediately a great success, given its usefulness, and has never suffered any interruption. First written by Abbé Jean Picard, then by his fellow academician, Le Febvre, it was, after the reform of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1699, developed by a team of academicians: Jacques Lieutaud surrounded by Réaumur, Galon and Cassini.
Price : 90 €