Weimar, Verl. des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1847.
Second edition. Bound with : - GALLE, J. G. Dr. Wilhelm Olbers' Abhandlung über die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen zu berechnen. Nachtrag zu der zweiten Auflage, die Fortsetzung und Erganzung des Verzeichnisses der bisher berechneten Cometenbahnen bis zum Jahre 1864 enthaltend. Leipzig, Voigt & Gunther, 1864. In-8 de VIII, 82 pp. Very fine copy. Provenance : F. Dollinger (contemporary stamp on title page and initials gilted on spine of the binding). /// In-8 de portrait, XXXVI, 251 pp., 1 folding plate. Half blue morocco, spine gilted with nerves. (Contemporary binding.) ////
(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 2. Pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Olber's paper: pp. 208-217.
First French edition of Olber's paper on the influence of the moon on the earth' season. Olbers, well-known for his discovery of the planets Pallas and Vesta, for discoveries of comets and asterorides, was also interested in meteorology. A crater on the moon is named after him.