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Shirley, Neely and Jones, 1821. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 36 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. R. and George Cruikshank; with 3 pages of folding sheets of songs. Frontispiece. 8vo. Crimson morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-ruled on sides; gilt-decorated and lettered on spine; all edges gilt. London: Shirley, Neely and Jones, 1821. First Edition, second issue, with the note on page 9. Crosby Gaiges copy, with his bookplate. Half-title. Joints slightly rubbed; light offsetting of plates onto guards, occasional minor foxing; o/w Fine

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of a comet by F. H. Fritsch; 4 folding diagrams at rear; plus Ornamental vignettes with fantasy motifs. 4to. Contemporary leather binding, spine with 5 raised bands; gilt-lettered red morocco label and gilt designs. Berolini Sumtibus Ambrosii Haude . . . (Berlini 1744). First Edition. (Brunet: II, col. 1092; Graesse: II, p. 518; Houzeau & Lancaster: Nº 11948; Dic. Biographique et Bibliographique: p. 308.) Leonardo Euler, the noted Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, was for many years a professor in Berlin at the Court of Frederick the Great. In 1766, at the request of the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, he left Germany and went to Russia, where lived until his death in 1783. His work in astronomy was recognized by a number of Paris Academy Prizes over the course of his career. In this work Euler gives the solutions of the main problems of theoretical astronomy dealing with the structure, nature,… Read More