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On astronomical navigation View picture(s) 1 ALCALA-GALIANO, D. Dionisio. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar, por d. Dionisio Alcala-Galiano, capitan de navio de la Real Armada. (Madrid), Imprenta de la Viudad de D. Joachin Ibarra, 1796. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title-label, gilt outside dentelles, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. With 7 folding engraved plates with tables. (2), 87, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Navigation  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous sundial with the form of a poplar leaf, with beautiful woodcuts View picture(s) 2 APIANUS, Petrus. Folium populi. instrumentum hoc a Petro Apiano iam rfcens [sic] inventum, et in figuram folii populi rfdactum [sic] per radios solis toto orbe horas cõmunes ostendit, ex quibus horæ ab ortu & occasu solis, deinde etiam horæ judeorum, ... In disem newen Instrument, das die Form unnd Gestalt hat eines Blats, werden durch den Sonnen scheyn, in der gantzen Welt gefunden die gemaine Stunden des Tages, und auß der Selbigen, vermittels dises Blats magst du die Stunden vom Auff und Nidergang der Sonnen, des geleichen die Judenstund ... leichtlich erkhennen. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [Petrus Apianus], 22 October 1533. Folio (30 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards with the original fly-leaves preserved. With the text in Latin and German, title-page in red and black with a large and finely executed woodcut by Hans Brosamer showing a diagram of the instrument flanked by a European and an Ottoman astronomer, each holding an astronomical instrument; a nearly full-page woodcut of the coat of arms of the dedicatee, J.G. of Loubenberg; a large woodcut diagram printed twice (in the Latin and in the German text); and 7 decorative initial letters. Without the folding plate included in a very small number of copies. [22] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Geography  Horology  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most illustrious of all celestial atlases View picture(s) 3 BAYER, Johannes. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. Ulm, Johannes Görlin, 1639. Folio (31.5 x 41 cm). Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, double blind filet along sides. With engraved architectural title and 51 full-page engraved maps of stellar constellations by Alexander Mair. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy  Atlases  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch classic against witchcraft and devilry bound with a rare work on comets View picture(s) 4 BEKKER, Balthasar. De betoverde weereld, zynde een grondig ondersoek van 't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, derselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedryf: als ook 't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen. In vier boeken ondernomen. Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. With a full-page woodcut of a medieval drinking horn. [2], 138, [2]; [8], 262, [2]; [8], 32, 188, [4]; [6], 1-224, 217-224, 225- 277, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy  Demonology  Low Countries  Religion  Superstition  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the origins of cults View picture(s) 5 DUPUIS, [Charles François]. Planches de l'origine de tous les cultes, avec leur explication. Paris, H. Agasse, An III de la République (1795). 4to. Contemp. half calf. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, zodiac signs, ancient and archaeological artefacts suchs as vases and coins on 22 folding engraved plates. 16 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Astronomy  Cultural History  History  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The greatest celestial atlas revised and expanded View picture(s) 6 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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Treatise on comets inspired by the famous comet of 1811 View picture(s) 7 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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First edition of the French translation of one of Halley's most important works View picture(s) 8 HALLEY, Edmond. Catalogue des estoilles australes. Ou supplement du Catalogue de Thycho, qui montre les longitudes & latitudes des estoilles fixes du Pole Abtartique, lesquelles ont esté cachées à Tycho dans l'orison d'Uranibourg, calculées avec un soin  tres-exact suivant leurs distances, & corrigées jusques à la fin de l'année 1677. Avec les observations faites en l'isle de Sainte Helene ... Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1679. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf over thick but hollow boards, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. (36), 118, (2 blank) pp. Collation: *-2*6, 3*4 (with 2 lvs (+2) between the second and third leaf), a-k6. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Astronomy  French  Poland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the first astronomical book published in Japan. Printed from 218 woodblocks with 66 illustrations View picture(s) 9 IGUCHI Tsunemori. Tenmon Zukai. Osaka, Ikeuchi Hachibee, Kawachiya Kihei, 1689. 5 volumes. (22.5 x 16 cm). In the original Japanese stab-sewn stiff paper wrappers with woodblock-printed labels giving the title and volume numbers. In a modern folding case. An illustrated Japanese treatise on astronomy, printed entirely from woodblocks on the outer pages of folded double-leaves, with 4 double-page illustrations, 62 further illustrations (many full-page) on 46 pages, 4 woodcut seals (2 black on white and 2 white on black) on 2 pages, and tables of numerical data. With the text in Japanese. The illustrations include 2 celestial charts, an armillary sphere (with legs in the form of dragons), a terrestrial hemisphere (showing East Asia, the East Indies, New Guinea and Alaska), numerous geocentric diagrams of the earth, sun, moon, planets and stars, diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses and of the phases of the moon, and a representation of the traditional Buddhist cosmology. 3, 2, 6, 21; 31; 37; 64; 47, 7 double leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Japan  Science  Woodcuts  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) 10 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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First and only Aldine edition of three astronomical treatises View picture(s) 11 MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius and CENSORINUS. In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natalia, additis ex vetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Torressano, April 1528. 8vo. 19th-century blind-ruled brown calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, some astronomical woodcuts and a world-map in text. [6], [2 blank], 322, [1 blank], [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Persian-Turkish manuscript with astronomical paintings View picture(s) 12 MAHMUD ibn-ADHAM. Mifah al-Lugha (An Ottoman guide for Persian language with an alphabetic Persian dictionary). (Ca. 1628-29). 8vo. (22 x 14 cm.). Contemporary calf, sides covered with old paper. Manuscript on burnished paper in Persian and Ottoman Turkish written in black and red ink, with 10 magnificent pasted handcoloured plates, of which one double-page. (1-3 blank, 4-114, 115 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arabia  Astronomy  Manuscripts  Ottoman Empire  Persia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first comprehensive treatise on the Northern Lights View picture(s) 13 MAIRAN, Jean Jacques D'ORTOUS de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 4to. Late 19th-century calf, spine ribbed and gilt with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. Woodcut printer's device on title, with 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, woodcut head- & tail pieces, many tables in text. (12), 570, XXII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Meteorology  Paris  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Tahitian imprint concerning astronomy View picture(s) 14 MAZIMANN, P. De l'utilité dont serait un cerlcle [sic] a pied parallactique pour l'observation des distances lunaires. Tahiti, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1858. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 14, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Maritime History  Navigation  Pacific  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The comet of 1664 View picture(s) 15 RICHTERN, Christophorus. Berichtendes Send-Schreiben vom Cometen, so in Christmonat des 1664. Christen-Jahres ist erschienen: darinnen derselbige Astronomicè, Physicè, Astrologicè, Theologicè, betrachtet und erkläret wirt. Leipzig, Ritzsch, 1665. 4to. Modern boards. With a woodcut of a comet on the title-page. (12) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Astronomy  Pamphlets  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Heavily annotated copy of one of the early Cologne (Quentell) editions View picture(s) 16 SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Opus sphericum magistri Joannis de Sacro Busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et interpretatione familiari ad comoditatem desiderantium iucundissima Artis Astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum. Cologne, Sons of Henricus Quentell, January 1505. 4to. Modern boards. With a six-line woodcut initial on title comprising a teacher with his pupil, full-page woodcut of a armillary globe held by angels above and below, with the zodiac and a small view of a walled small town in centre on the verso of the title, and 27 large half-page astronomical and cosmological woodcuts in text, 2 other 6-line woodcut initials. (38) lvs. (last blank present; collation: A6, B-C4, D6, E-F4, G6, H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  England  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Schoolbook with 28 astronomy plates and stellar maps View picture(s) 17 SMITH, Asa. Der Bau des Himmels, oder anschaulichste Darstellung des Weltsystems in Bildern ... Deutsch bearbeitet von Mayer-Meng. Zweite Auflage. Dritter Abdruck. Stuttgart, Wilhelm Nitzschke, [ca. 1858?]. Large 4to (27 x 23 cm). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine. With a lithographed frontispiece and 28 lithographed plates (25 x 20 cm), all with a black background and a few partly coloured, all plates mounted on linen. IV, 42 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Astronomy  Atlases [Celestial]  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The moon eclipses of 1834 View picture(s) 18 [ALMANAC]. Van Zwaamen's en Thompson's almanak, voor 't jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1834. Voorzien met de jaarmarkten, kermissen, paardebeeste- en leermarkten, reken- en schouwdagen, het varen der beurtschepen, en trekschuiten van en naar diverse plaatsen. Als mede de maans op- en ondergang, eclipsen, watergety, enz. enz. Rotterdam, T.L. Thompson, 1834. Sm.8vo. Contemporary green painted vellum with blind-stamped coat of arms of the navy on both covers, back cover overlapping. With 2 woodcut double-page maps of Zeeland and the United Netherlands, woodcut device on title-page, 13 small woodcuts and some tables and calendars. (130) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Almanacs & Calendars  Astronomy  Dutch  Eclipses  Maps  Woodcuts  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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