Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VISCONTI, SIGISMONDO; and DUFOUR, ADOLPHE-HIPPOLYTE [or HENRI?]. Tableaux du Système Planétaire . . . Nouvelle Édition, revue et considérablement augmentée. Letterpress title; 7 double-page stipple-engraved plates after Visconti, color-printed and partly hand-finished. Folio, 520x348 mm, contemporary 1/2 sheep with lithographed front cover label, spine heavily worn, missing portions at top and bottom; heavy foxing on title, scattered minor marginal foxing on plates, plate 3 loose with partial repair along crease on verso, plates 4 and 5 separating at bottom of crease. Paris: Longuet, 1839
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Second edition of an atlas of the solar system originally published in 1830; without the accompanying booklet of explanatory text by Dufour. Houzeau & Lancaster 8172 (text booklet only, not noting the atlas). OCLC locates few copies of any edition.