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HALLEY, EDMOND. Astronomical Tables. With Precepts both in English and Latin for computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Comets. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Halley. [31]; [161] leaves, including half-title. 4to, 282x231 mm, modern 1/2 leather; marginal foxing through most of volume. London: William Innys, 1752
first edition in english of the posthumously published 1749 Tabulae astronomicae, reprinting the 1705 Latin original text and English translation of Halley's Astronomiae cometicae synopsis, in which he predicted the 1758 return of the comet named for him, demonstrating by orbital analysis that it was the same as the one observed in 1537, 1607, and 1682. Babson 350; Houzeau & Lancaster 12796.
