Cartes du ciel re duites en quatre tables
Subtitle: contenant toutes les constellations, avec un catalogue des noms, grandeurs et positions des estoilles, corrige es et calcule es par longitudes, pour l'an 1700
By: en latin, le franc ʹais a   coste , par le sieur Augustin Royer, Architecte du Roy
Contributors: Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683, former owner; Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904, former owner
Publisher: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, Imprimeur du Roy, rue  S. Jacques, a   la Bible d'or
Published: 1679
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Catalogs; Charts, diagrams; Constellations; Maps; Early works to 1800; Observations; Stars; Astronomy; Names
Notes: Signatures: e œ́ ℗øe œ́ i þ́ A-Tœ́

BM (compact ed.) vol. 22, p. 79, col. 653

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early red morocco. The covers are panelled in triple-ruled gilt with the super ex-libris of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (an escutcheon under a crown with a single snake). The turn-ins and board edges are tooled in gilt and the spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with Colbert's monogram (JBC underneath a crown) in each compartment. All text block edges are gilt. The doublures are of red silk. An inscription at the head of the title page reads, "Bibliothecae Colbertinae." The bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery is present on the title page verso, and the perforation stamp of the Library is on the recto of the same.