Null [ASTRONOMIE]. BION (Nicolas).
L’Usage des globes celeste et terrestre, et d…

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[ASTRONOMIE]. BION (Nicolas). L’Usage des globes celeste et terrestre, et des spheres suivant les differens systemes du monde. Précédé d’un Traité de cosmographie […]. A Paris, Chez la veuve Jean Boudot, Étienne Ganeau, Claude Robustel et Laurent Rondet, 1717. In-8°, veau, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l’époque). « Quatrième édition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée. » 48 planches gravées, dont une sphère armillaire en frontispice, certaines repliées, et deux tableaux repliés. De la bibliothèque Montesquieu avec ex-libris manuscrit sur le titre (recouvrant un premier ex-libris partiellement effacé et ex-dono manuscrit en page de garde : « a Mr Sutter avec les compliments de M. Hamilton, Décembre 1928 »

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[ASTRONOMIE]. BION (Nicolas). L’Usage des globes celeste et terrestre, et des spheres suivant les differens systemes du monde. Précédé d’un Traité de cosmographie […]. A Paris, Chez la veuve Jean Boudot, Étienne Ganeau, Claude Robustel et Laurent Rondet, 1717. In-8°, veau, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l’époque). « Quatrième édition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée. » 48 planches gravées, dont une sphère armillaire en frontispice, certaines repliées, et deux tableaux repliés. De la bibliothèque Montesquieu avec ex-libris manuscrit sur le titre (recouvrant un premier ex-libris partiellement effacé et ex-dono manuscrit en page de garde : « a Mr Sutter avec les compliments de M. Hamilton, Décembre 1928 »

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