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Royal binding for Louis XV of France

Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France
Royal binding for Louis XV of France

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4800 SEK

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7 000-9 000 SEK

Beskrivning

ROYAL BINDING. MAIRAN, (JEAN JACQUES D´ORTOUS) DE. Traité physique et historique de l´aurore boréale... Suite des Mémoires de l´Academie Royale des Sciences, l´année M.DCCXXXI. Seconde edition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens. Paris (de l´Imprimerie Royale) 1754.

4:o. (12), (1)-570, i-xxii pp. 17 folding engraved plates (all, some offsetting to text from plates).
Contemporary brown mottled calf, worn, gilt borders, on covers the gilt armour of Louis XV of France, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, gilt spine in six compartments with the gilt monogram of the king, some damages at head and foot, split upper joints, partly warped covers and rubbed corners, redspeckled edges. At foot of spine pasted oval label with text "M 77 1754". Minor foxing. Bookplate of Eivind Hassler.

Second revised and enlarged edition of the classic work on the athmoshperical phenomena Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights, the first comprehensive treatise devoted entirely to the subject.
Jean-Jacques d´Ortous de Mairan (1678-1771), physicist, mathematician, secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences at Paris.
Poggendorff II, pp. 17-18.

Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.

Auktionsnummer:

6456

Datum:

2017-11-21