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Astronomy - Fixlmillner, Placido. Decennium astronomicum continens observationes praecipuas ab anno 1765 ad 1775 in specula Cremifanensis factas. With engraved title vignette (observatory of Kremsmünster) and 4 folded copper plates. Steyr, A. Wimmer, 1776. 11 pp., 280 p. 24 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with red spine label and gilt spine (somewhat rubbed). Rare first edition. - Poggendorff I, 756 - Zinner, Instrumente 314f. - Houzeau-Lancaster 3385 - Lalande 550 - Kenney 56 - Wurzbach IV, 261 - Durstmüller I, 314 - Work report by Fixlmillner, who was in charge of the observatory of the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster from 1762 and produced extremely accurate work on the orbits of Mercury, uranium and solar parallax - A fine, hardly stained copy.
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Astronomy - Fixlmillner, Placido. Decennium astronomicum continens observationes praecipuas ab anno 1765 ad 1775 in specula Cremifanensis factas. With engraved title vignette (observatory of Kremsmünster) and 4 folded copper plates. Steyr, A. Wimmer, 1776. 11 pp., 280 p. 24 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with red spine label and gilt spine (somewhat rubbed). Rare first edition. - Poggendorff I, 756 - Zinner, Instrumente 314f. - Houzeau-Lancaster 3385 - Lalande 550 - Kenney 56 - Wurzbach IV, 261 - Durstmüller I, 314 - Work report by Fixlmillner, who was in charge of the observatory of the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster from 1762 and produced extremely accurate work on the orbits of Mercury, uranium and solar parallax - A fine, hardly stained copy.
