ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm (1799-1875). Untersuchungen uber die Bahn des Grossen Cometen.

ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875).  Untersuchungen über die Bahn des grossen Cometen vom Jahre 1811. Konigsberg: Im Verlage der Gebrüder Bornsträger, 1823. 4to (234 x 190mm). Lithographed plate of the 'Great Comet', tables (title and plate browned, spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards (extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible library stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this work in which the author, known for his calculations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances, established the 'Great Comet's' orbital period as being 2,840 years. In 1837 he published his greatest work, Weber die eigene Bewegung des Sonnensystems (St. Petersburg), in which he proved the truth of Herschel's theory concerning the independent movement of the solar system.