ASTRONOMY - EXPLANATORY TABLE OF THE "SYSTEM OF COPERNIC or Abstract of Astronomy, dedicated and presented to Monseigneur le Dauphin, by his very humble and very obedient servant PAPILLON DE LA FERTE, one of the General Commissioners of the House of King, 1783". Paper laid. In Paris, at DELAMARCHE, Geographer, Rue du Foin Saint Jacques at the College of Master Gervais. Margins. One of the many decorative terrestrial and celestial engravings presenting various astronomical and geographical ideas, with a central diagram and a rich text in two columns on each side. 54 x 73 cm. State A (original median vertical fold).