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réf. 53115 — Viennae Vienna Switzerland : Typis et sumpti. Joan. Thom. Nob. De Trattnern Caes. Reg. Maj. Aulae Typographi Et Bibliopolae MDCCXCII. 1792 . Annual astronomical tables for the meridian of Vienna printed in 1792 for the upcoming year of 1793. Later full leather binding preserving one of the original boards. 8vo. 20cm x 13.4 cm. pp.489. With 2 engraved folding plates The "Moon": Carefully repaired to blank area without loss 8 engraved tables tailpieces numerous charts and several woodcuts within text. Brown calf . 5 raised bands to spine with remains of old leather title label. All page edges red. Modern bookplate dated 1923 to front endpaper with an illustration of an private observatory: "Ex Libris Mag. F. Fischer A.F. MCMXXIII". Neat inked notes to front free-endpaper. Title page printed within decorative border contents printed within double-ruled borders. Clear text throughout. VG. "Maximilian Hell Hungarian: Hell Miksa born Rudolf Maximilian H�ll; May 15 1720 � April 14 1792 was an astronomer and ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. The lunar crater Hell is named after him. Hell became the director of the Vienna Observatory in 1756. He published the astronomical tables Ephemerides astronomicae ad meridianum Vindobonemsem "Ephemerides for the Meridian of Vienna"." - See Wikipedia "Franti�ek Fischer 30 August 1886 � 10 November 1966 was a Czech pharmacist and amateur astronomer. He focused mainly on selenography i.e. mapping the surface of the Moon. From 1924 he operated his own observatory in Prague-Podol� which was described by the editors of the professional journal Empire of Stars as "one of the best-equipped and managed private observatories" in Czechoslovakia." Viennae [ Vienna, Switzerland] : Typis et sumpti. Joan. Thom. Nob. De Trattnern, Caes. Reg. Maj. Aulae Typographi Et Bibliopolae hardcover