MENTELLE, EDME.

Cosmographie élémentaire, divisée en Parties astronomiques et géographique. Ouvrage dans lequel on a tâche de mettre les vérités les plus intéressantes de la Physique céleste a la portée de ceux même qui n'ont aucune notion de Mathématiques; Troisieme Edition, revue et considerablement augmentée par l'Autheur. (2 Parties).

Paris, Théophile Barrois, An VII (1799). 8vo. Bound in 2 well-preserved contemporary hcalf. Gilt backs. Title-and tomelabels in leather. XXII,727 pp., 1 folded table and 14 folded engraved plates (numb. I-XIII, 1 unnumb.), including 10 large folded and outline coloured engraved maps. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. With bookplate from "Nörager Bibliothek".

Mentelle was geographer and historian, member of the Royal Inst. of Sciences and known for editing several geographical atlasses from 1782 up to 1808. - Poggendorff II:120.

Order-nr.: 35613