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LALANDE, JOSEPH-JÉRÔME LE FRANÇAIS DE. Bibliographie Astronomique; avec l'Histoire de l'Astronomie depuis 1781 jusqu'à 1802. [4], viii, 966 pages, including half-title. Thick 4to, 271x210 mm, contemporary paste-paper boards with handwritten paper lettering piece, label removed from bottom of spine, joints cracked, cords intact; contents clean, blank lower outer corner excised from title; uncut and largely unopened. Paris: Imprimerie de la République, 1803
first edition of the most extensive bibliography of the subject yet published, containing some 5,000 entries organized chronologically. Houzeau & Lancaster 91.
