Découvertes dans la lune, faites au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, par Herschel fils, astronome anglais
By: traduit de l'américain de New York
Contributors: Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871; Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843; Babeuf, Louis, publisher; Éverat, Adolphe, printer
Edition: Seconde édition.
Publisher: Louis Babeuf, rue du Jardinet, 3.; Lyon, ainé, rue Saint-Dominque, 2.
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Great Moon Hoax; Impostors and imposture
Work titles: Great astronomical discoveries
Notes: A hoax.

Has been ascribed on insufficient evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Cf. Dict. Amer. biog.; F. M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun, 1918, p. 64-102.

Originally published as a series of articles in the New York Sun, Aug. 1835, and subsequently published separately under title: Great astronomical discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel ... at the Cape of Good Hope.

Printer from t.p. verso.

Publisher's advertisements, p. [47]-48.