Author: LALANDE Joseph Jerôme de ( DELALANDE ) - Giuseppe TOALDO (traduttore) :
Title: Compendio d'Astronomia colle Tavole Astronomiche del Signor De La Lande....Prima Edizione Italiana...(Bound with) Tavole Astronomiche del Signor De La Lande...Nuova Edizione coretta ed ampliata. (two parts bound in one vol.).
Description: .: Padova, Nella Stamperia del Seminario, Apresso Giovanni Manfré, 1777, small in-4°, 23,5 x 17,5 cm, xxvi + (2)(bl) + 316 pp. (Bound with) Tavole Astronomiche..., idem, 1777, iv pp + 254 pp + 10 folding plates carrying 132 engraved figures. The vignettes on both titles have been heightened with red and blue colors. Bound in contemporary half leather, smooth spine with two labels, with a small expertly restoration at top of spine spine and folds of plates, a nice copy. Giuseppe Toaldo (1719 - 1797) edited the collected works of Galilei in 1744. He strongly advocated the use of lightning rods of the Franklin system and due to his exertions the cathedral of Siena , Saint Mark's tower in Venice etc. were among the first buildings in Italy to be equipped. He was professor of astronomy at Pavia university. (1762). .

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