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Astronomy - Heinsius, Gottfried. Description of the comet that appeared at the beginning of 1744. With 1 mezzotint plate and 3 copper plates as well as 1 hand drawing in pen and lead, all folded. St. Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, 1744. 1 leaf, 105 p. - Prebound: Leonhard Euler. Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum ... Una cum calculo, quo cometae, qui annis 1680. et 1681. itemque ejus, qui nuper est visus, motus verus investigatur. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette and 4 folded copper plates. Berlin, Haude, 1744. 187 (recte 186) pp. 23 x 19 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (dusty and bent, endpapers replaced or pasted over and heavily browned). I. First German edition, also published in Russian. - Brüning 1682 (only 1 plate). - Description of the comet Klinkenberg or de Chéseaux (C/1743 X1), with magnificent mezzotint plate of its changing appearance. Additionally bound with a detailed drawing of the comet's path through the constellations, positions in gold, dates in red. - II First edition. - Houzeau-Lancaster 11948 - DSB IV, 471 - Eneström 66 - Euler's main astronomical work on the theory of orbits, simultaneously to the comet also observed by Heinsius. - Pages 7/8 skipped in the numbering as usual, final page 188 incorrectly paginated "187". - Russian armorial bookplate of the cartographer and astronomer Friedrich von Schubert (1789-1865). Some longer marginalia and corrections in pen in Euler's work, possibly in Schubert's hand; the folded-in orbital drawing in Heinsius' work could also be by him. - Euler somewhat browned, Heinsius clean and with wide margins. VAT: *
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Astronomy - Heinsius, Gottfried. Description of the comet that appeared at the beginning of 1744. With 1 mezzotint plate and 3 copper plates as well as 1 hand drawing in pen and lead, all folded. St. Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, 1744. 1 leaf, 105 p. - Prebound: Leonhard Euler. Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum ... Una cum calculo, quo cometae, qui annis 1680. et 1681. itemque ejus, qui nuper est visus, motus verus investigatur. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette and 4 folded copper plates. Berlin, Haude, 1744. 187 (recte 186) pp. 23 x 19 cm. Contemporary vellum binding (dusty and bent, endpapers replaced or pasted over and heavily browned). I. First German edition, also published in Russian. - Brüning 1682 (only 1 plate). - Description of the comet Klinkenberg or de Chéseaux (C/1743 X1), with magnificent mezzotint plate of its changing appearance. Additionally bound with a detailed drawing of the comet's path through the constellations, positions in gold, dates in red. - II First edition. - Houzeau-Lancaster 11948 - DSB IV, 471 - Eneström 66 - Euler's main astronomical work on the theory of orbits, simultaneously to the comet also observed by Heinsius. - Pages 7/8 skipped in the numbering as usual, final page 188 incorrectly paginated "187". - Russian armorial bookplate of the cartographer and astronomer Friedrich von Schubert (1789-1865). Some longer marginalia and corrections in pen in Euler's work, possibly in Schubert's hand; the folded-in orbital drawing in Heinsius' work could also be by him. - Euler somewhat browned, Heinsius clean and with wide margins. VAT: *
