Traité physique et historique de l’Aurore boréale de Mairan.
Binding with arms of Louis XV
MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l’Aurore boréale.
Paris, de l’Imprimerie royale, 1754.
950 €
4to (10x7,7 inches) of [6] ff., 570 pp., xxii pp., [17] folding plates. binding: Contemporary full marbled havana calf . Covers with arms of the King Louis XV (O.H.R., pl. 2495, fer n° 2. Minor waterstain. Corners and ends of spine worn. Joint cracked. Strong binding.
Second and best edition of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, whose height the author estimates as above 100 geographical miles, and which he supposes to be zodiacal light that has come into contact with the atmosphere.
GOOD COPY WITH ARMS OF KING LOUIS XV.
references: O.H.R. [pl. 2495, fer n° 2], Sotheran [II, 11308].
