‎MAIRAN Jean Jacques Dortous de ( 1678 - 1771 ) :‎
‎Traité physique et historique de l'Aurore Boréale. Suite des Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Année M.DCCXXXI. Seconde Édition, Revûe & augmentée de plusiers E'claircissemens.‎

‎ Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754, in-4°, (12) nn pp + 570 pp + xxii pp (index) + 17 engraved plates with a total of 36 illustrations (complete), bound in contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, red leather title label on spine, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, triple gilt fillet on both covers, fine/good binding but with some restorations at extremeties (headcap, corners), fine crisp interior. Second and best edition of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, whose height the author estimates as above 100 geographical miles, and which he supposes to be zodiacal light that has come into contact with the atmosphere. (Sotheran N°11308).‎

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