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A Portuguese work on cosmography and comets View picture(s) 1 AHLERS, Francisco Henrique. Instrucção sobre os corpos celestes, principalmente sobre os cometas. Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1758. 4to. Contemporary calf. With 3 folding engraved plates by M. le Bouteux, etched headpiece and initial. [18], 86, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Copy of an important work on the history of astronomy from the library of the first biographer of Jean-Sylvain Bailly View picture(s) 2 BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'à l'établissement de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie. Paris, the Brothers Debure, 1775. 4to. Beautifully bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt fillets along the edges, 4 floral corner-pieces and a gilt coat-of-arms of Simon-Pierre Merard de Saint-Just with the motto 'L'honneur et l'amour', on both sides, spine richly gilt in compartments with green title-label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers, in modern slip-case covered with marbled paper. With 3 folding engraved plates and many interesting head- and tail-pieces. (2), XXII, 526 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Antiques  Astronomy & Cosmography  Bindings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic user's manual for globes, spheres & sundials View picture(s) 3 BLAEU, Willem Jansz. Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphærarum cælestium ac terrestrium. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1652. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With a woodcut globe, armillary sphere and earth orbiting the sun as devices on the title-page and 2 part-titles, 29 woodcut illustrations in the text, including quadrants, sundials, astronomical diagrams, etc., woodcut decorative initial letters and endpieces. [16], 246, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Globes  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Containing exquisite plates with views on the moon and stellar constellations adorned with the zodiacal symbols View picture(s) 4 BRADFORD, Duncan. The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, stars, with descriptions of plantes, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. Boston, American Stationers Co., 1837. Large 4to. Contemp. half green moroco. Engraved frontispiece with Herschel's telescope, engr. title with zodiac, 6 full-page engr. with telescopic views of the moon in different phases and planets, 6 handcoloured folding engr. plates with celestial charts, numerous woodcuts in text of which five full-page. 371 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mechanics  Meteorology  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on astronomy and mathematics View picture(s) 5 CENSORINUS. De Die Natali Henric. Lindenbrogius recensuit; et notis. Iterata hac editione passim adauctis, illustratis. Leyden, Joannis Maire, 1642. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcuts in text, folding diagram of with the earth at the center of the solar system. (16), 250, (38) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Navigation and astronomical research in present-day Canada View picture(s) 6 CHABERT, Joseph Bernard. Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les cartes des côtes de l'Acadie, de l'Isle Royale & de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve; et pour en fixer les principaux points par des observations astronomiques. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1753. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, gilt title and date on richly gilt spine, triple gilt fillets on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved printer's vignette on title, engraved headpiece at the beginning of the first chapter, 6 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate depicting geometrical figures, and large folding table with calculations for the position of the sun and the moon. (2), VIII, 288, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Astronomy & Cosmography  Bindings  Cartography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spanish handbook on chronography View picture(s) 7 CHAVES, Jérôme de. Chronographia o repertorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, que hasta ahora ha salido a luz. Sevilla, Fernando Diaz, 1584. 4to. 19th century vellum, gilt spine with red morocco label lettered in gold (DOMINGO V. FOLCH, Valencia). Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon. 163 lvs. [Collation: x8(8), A-X8(176), Y-Z4(184), AA8(192), BB-HH8 (201-156(=256)), II8-1(157-163(=257-263)), the last blank missing]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A precise explanation of the construction of flat sundials View picture(s) 8 COETS, Hendrik. Beschrijvinge van vlakke Sonnewijsers, of nieuwe en korte manier om op vlakke superficies allerhande sonnewijsers te beschryven: uyt sijn Latyns tractaat in het Nederduyts overgeset, op vele plaatsen veranderd, en in het eynde met een geheel capittel vermeerdert. Leyden, Johannes du Vivié and Is. Severinus, 1705. 4to. Contemporary boards, title label on spine. Engraved vignette on title, 110 engraved plates, and 3 folding. (12), 236 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Past, present and future comets View picture(s) 9 DANNEWALDT, Mattias. Cometologia oder historischer Discurs, was von vielen hundert Jahren her auff cometische Erscheinungen sich begeben. Ingleichen deroselben kürziche Betrachtung und was etwa der im Decembr. dieses 1664sten Jahres entstandene Comet vor muthmatzliche Bedeutung nach sich ziehen möchte. Mit beygefügten Abrissen, wie er zu Augspurg, Nürnberg, Hamburg, und zu Leipzig gesehen worden. Darbey auch von den andern Cometen welcher den 22. Decembr. als eine Göttliche Zorn-Ruthe am hohen Himmel erschienen kürzlicher Bericht. Leipzig, bey Christian Kirchnern, (1665). 4to. Modern boards. With woodcut frontispiece, depicting the comet in Leipzig, Hamburg, Augsburg and Nuremberg. (18) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the first European plans of Peking View picture(s) 10 DE L'ISLE (or DELISLE), Joseph-Nicolas & PINGRÉ. Description de la ville Peking, pour servir à l'intelligence du Plan de cette Ville, gravé par les soins de M. de l'Isle. Paris, 1765. 4to. Half brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, a large woodcut headpiece on first page, 6 folding plates of which the largest (485 x 250 mm) is a "plan de la ville tartare de Peking" and is signed Dheulland graveur du Roi, the first (235 x 195 mm) is a "plan general des deux villes qui composent Peking", the third (185 x 100 mm) a "plan du Ti-ouang-miao, the fourth (185 x 105 mm) a "plan du koue-tse-kien-ouen-miao", the fifth (185 x 150 mm) a "plan du Tien-Kan, ou temple dédié au souverain Seigneur du Ciel", and the sixth (160 x 120), "plan du Ti-Tan ou du Temple dédié au souverain Seigneur de la Terre", all five signed Lattré. (2), 44, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  Geography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare early scientific schoolbooks View picture(s) 11 FINE, Oronce. Liber de geometria practica. Strasbourg, printed by Georg Messerschmidt for Johann Knobloch, 1544. With folding woodcut plate and 97 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text.  [4], 133, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  German  Mathematics  Schoolbooks  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The greatest celestial atlas revised and expanded View picture(s) 12 FLAMSTEED, John and Jean Nicholas FORTIN. Atlas Céleste de Flamstéed, approuvé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et publié sous le privilege de cette compagnie. Seconde édition. Paris, F.G. Deschamps, "l'Auteur" [= Fortin] (colophon: printed by the widow Hérissant), 1776. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, mottled paper sides. With woodcut vignette on the title page, 30 double-page engraved star charts, 9 pages of letterpress tables of stellar data, a woodcut head-piece, and woodcut & built-up tailpieces. VIII, 40 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Atlases [Celestial]  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Astronomical and geographical information on regions in China and India View picture(s) 13 GOUYE, (Thomas). Observations physiques et mathematiques, pour servir a l'histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l'astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l'Académie Royale des Sciences à Paris, par les Peres Jesuites. Paris, Jean Anisson, Imprimerie Royale, 1692. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt spine. Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas. (4), 114 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  India  Jesuits  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important Dutch mathematicians on celestial bodies and the longitude at sea View picture(s) 14 GRAAF, Abraham de. De starre-kunst, leerende de hoedanigheden der beweginge van alle zichtbare hemelsche lighamen, en 't berekenen haarder zichtbare plaatzen. Mitsgaders, de hoedanigheden der verduistering van zon en maan, en de berekening van dien. Amsterdam, (colophon: printed by Paulus Matthijsz. for) Pieter Goos, 1659. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With 8 full-page numbered engraved plates on 4 double-leaves, and several woodcut diagrams. [8], 125, [3], [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on comets inspired by the famous comet of 1811 View picture(s) 15 GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula. Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811. Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. Contemporary half-leather, red title-label, red edges. With aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables. 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Astrology  Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last work written by Christiaan Huygens in English translation View picture(s) 16 HUYGENS, Christiaan. The celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London, James Knapton, 1722. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. With spherical illustrations on 5 folding engraved plates. VI, 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Dutch  English  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A truly encyclopedic work on magnetism View picture(s) 17 KIRCHER, Athanasius. Magnes, sive de arte magnetica. Opus tripartitum, quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientijs & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: ac praeterea e viribus & prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis, animalibus, elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita natura arcana, per physica, medica,chymica, & mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur. Rome, Vitalis Mascardi, for Blasius Deversin & Zanobius Masotti, 1654. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved hermetic and symbolic frontispiece by F. Valentius, large engraved double publisher's devices on title; title printed in red and black; full-page engraved emblematic plate for the dedication with the portrait of Emperor Ferdinand IV in the centre; 34 mostly full-page engraved plates; 215 woodcut illustrations, about 50 tables and several examples of musical scores in the text. (32), 618, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two works on sundials issued together. The second work is by the first Dutch defender of Copernicus View picture(s) 18 LANSBERGIUS, Phillippus van. Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers: in welcke de waere manier, om deselve op allerhande vlackten te betrecken, volgens wiskonstige regulen geleert, ende door een groot getal vertoog-schetzen aengewesen werdt. Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt, door Jacob Mogge. Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1675. (Colophon: printed by Thomas Berry, for Zach Folio. Contemporary vellum. Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece. (2), 54, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise by the favourite astronomer of King Louis XV on a wide range of subjects View picture(s) 19 LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles. Mémoires concernant diverses questions d'astronomie et de physique. Lûs et communiqués à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. Modern half brown mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-and tailpieces and one engraved folding plate with 3 illustrations of eclipses, signed Y. le Gouaz. VIII, XXIV, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  France  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the influences of the stars, comets, perpetuel motion machine, and new inventions View picture(s) 20 LE ROYER, Jacques. (Oeuvres). Le bastion universel - L'art des arts et des sciences ou des nouvelles inventions - Le moevement perpetuel hydraulique - La véritable cause des cometes - Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere partie des influences des cieux, & des astres. ... Deuxie'me partie des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres. Avranches, Nicolas Motays, 1677. 8vo. Contemporary full brown mottled calf, sprinkled edges. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials and many woodcut borders, 5 half page and 10 smaller woodcut diagrams in the text, depicting arrangements for chemical experiments, diagrams, astrological symbols, spheres, etc. (6), 3-112, 109- 364 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Chemistry  Engineering  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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