Astronomy
Subtitle: in five books
By: by Roger Long
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1742
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800
Notes: Signatures: v. 1. a-b⁴, A-Xx⁴ Yy², *⁴; v. 2. *², Zz⁴, 3A-4D⁴ 4E².

"A list of ... the subscribers names ... " v. 1, p. xiii-xvi and v. 2, p. iv.

This issue contains Books 1-3 only; the sheets were reissued in 1784-1785, with Books 4-5 (continuously signed and paged), left unpublished at the author's death.

The ill. are engraved by J. Mynde, William Stephens, and James Ferguson; engraved headpieces by Gerard Van der Gucht, including a medallion portrait of Cassini.