ZACH, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von.

Tabulae Motuum Solis Novae et Correctae ex Theoria Gravitatis et Observationibus recentissimis erutae. Quibus accedit Fixarum praecipuarum Catalogus Novus ex Observationibus Astronomicuis Annis 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790 in Specula Astronomica Gothana habitis.

Engraved frontis. giving two views & the floor plan of the observatory at Gotha. 4 p.l., 195, ccl pp. Large 4to, orig. boards (spine perished), entirely uncut. Gotha: C.G. Ettinger, 1792. First edition. Zach (1754-1832), came from a noble and distinguished family in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In 1786 he was appointed head of the observatory which Duke Ernst II of Gotha-Altenburg erected near Gotha. This work, considered to be one of the author's most important works, contains Zach's notable observations and tables made at the observatory. Fine copy preserved in a drop-back cloth box with a blue morocco lettering piece on spine. D.S.B., XIV, pp. 582-83. Lalande, pp. 622-23­"Ces tables et ce catalogue sont un travail précieux d'un de nos plus grand astronomes."

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