MAIRAN Jean Jacques Dortous de ( 1678 - 1771 ) - Edmond HALLEY [ ] :
Reference : 43238
" Paris, chez Durand, Libraire, au Griffon, 1747, in-8°, 16 x 9,5 cm, (12)nn pp (with engraved allagorical frontispiece ) + 360 pp (complete), bound in contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges painted red, some wear at extremeties but still a fine copy. First edition. Text in French. Contains the biographies and bibliographies of e.g. the medical doctor François Petit , the chemist Nicolas Lemery and the english astronomer Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742). [ science ; biography ; astronomy ; cosmology ; comets ; ]."