8vo; 195x125; Full leather binding, gilt tiles and ornaments on the spine, red edges. Pp. 122, [4] Signature of possession on first page. Slight spotting on title page and restoration on the lower margin of penultimate page, good copy with wide margins.
A beautiful edition of Maupertuis's astronomical work focusing on the study of instruments and means to find the latitude of a place, both on land and at sea.