PIAZZI, JOSEPH (GIUSEPPE).

Lehrbuch der Astronomie. Aus dem Italienischen übersetzt von Johann Heinrich Westphal. Mit einer Vorrede des Herrn Hofrath Ritter Gauss. Erster- (Zweiter) Theil. 2 Bde.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1822. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on both title-pages. VI,258;IV,356 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Faint brownspots on first and last leaves.

First German edition of "Lezioni elementari di astronomia ad usu del real osservatorio di Palermo", 1817, here with the foreword of Gauss. Giuseppe Piazzi's main discovery was that of the planet Ceres in 1801. - Poggendorff II, 441.

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