TISSERAND FRANÇOIS Traité de Mécanique Céleste 4 vols 1889

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TISSERAND, FRANÇOIS. Traité de Mécanique Céleste. x, 474; xiv, 552; ix, [1], 427, [1]; xii, 548 pages. 4 volumes. 4to, 276x222 mm, early 20th-century buckram, spines worn and darkened to brown, some hinges cracked; gatherings loose in first 3 volumes, Volume 4 half-title browned, contents otherwise clean. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889-96

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first edition of the most important 19th-century treatise on the subject to appear after Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. BEA, page 1141-42; DSB XII, 423. the astronomer wallace john eckert's set, with his signature in each volume.