[4], clxxx, 427 pp. (4to) 25.3x19.5 cm. (10x7¾") contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. First Edition.

This survey of the astronomy of India and the Orient by the noted French astronomer and historian of astronomy, Jean-Sylvain Bailly, can be considered a supplement to his monumental four-volume history of astronomy which had been published between 1775 and 1782. --Houzeau& Lancaster, I 482. DSB, I, pp. 400-401. Early inscription on half-title noting that Francois Carrard received the volume from the library of Benjamin Carrard in October of 1792