Lot 1562
[Shepherd, Anthony] Tables for Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon and a Star from the Effects of Refraction and Parallax, first edition, a few leaves loose, later leaves with some light mould to gutter, contemporary calf, worn, folio, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University, 1772
Anthony Shepherd (c.1721-1796) was a British astronomer and friend of Captain Cook, who named the Shepherd Islands after him.
