HALLEY, EDMOND. Tables Astronomiques . . . Première Partie qui contient les Observations de la Lune. Edited by Jean Chappé d'Auteroche. Folding engraved plate; folding map of winds and currents; 3 folding letterpress tables. xii, lxxxviii, 328 pages. 8vo, 197x124 mm, contemporary calf gilt, top of spine chipped; few leaves browned, clean tear in 2I3. Paris: Durand et Pissot, 1754
Second edition of the French translation first published the same year of the first part of Halley's 1749 Astronomical Tables, showing lunar positions; the second part of the French version, edited by Lalande, appeared in 1759. "The tables of the moon represent Newton's lunar theory as he presented it in the second edition of the Principia" (ODNB). Also included is a French version of Halley's 1686 paper on trade winds and monsoons containing the first meteorological chart. Houzeau & Lancaster 12796.
