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Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.
Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.
Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.

with royal provenance


ROUY, Charles.

Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie. Dédié et présenté à S. M. Louis XVIII, et destiné aux établissemens d'éducation des deux sexes, aux pères de famille, etc.

Paris, l'auteur & Cie, 1816.

£4,500.00
£4,500.00

Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.

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First edition of this interesting and rare work on astronomy dedicated to Louis XVIII and bound for his niece Marie-Thérèse of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. WorldCat locates only two institutional copies.

Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a moving model of the universe and includes the asteroids Vesta, Ceres and Pallas. This unique edition was reserved for subscribers, of which the King and his family were top of the list.

The present copy belonged to Madame Royale, Marie-Thérèse of France, the eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, the only one to reach adulthood. After marrying her cousin Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Charles X became her father-in-law (as well as her uncle) and she became the Dauphine of France. She spent much of her life in exile after the Revolution and the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy in 1830.

First edition; 8vo (20 x 12 cm); one large folding plate; bound in fine contemporary red morocco, covers with gilt royal coat of arms to the centre and detailed vine borders, spine gilt ruled and title, ex-libris and small French customs sticker to front free endpaper, green ribbon marker, blue silk endpapers, minor foxing throughout, all edges gilt, a near-fine copy; [2] 87pp.

Stock code 102782

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Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.

Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.

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