Book Collection
Astronomie Pratique by Gabriel Dallet - 1890
Here is a very lovely French language volume with a very decorative cover titled "Astronomie Pratique" that was published by Gabriel Dallet in 1890. This book is listed in Bob McNaught's celestial atlas catalog because it contains a nice set of celestial maps, of which I have provided a few examples. This book is fairly common and typically sells for around $50 USD. I like the frontispiece that shows an amateur astronomer in a garden observing the moon with a small equatorially mounted refractor.
Front Cover
Spine
Title Page
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Table of Stellar Parallaxes
Back Cover