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Precision among the circumpolar stars: Wollastons Fasciculus astronomicus,
from the library of Warren De La Rue

WOLLASTON, Francis. Fasciculus astronomicus, containing observations of the northern circumpolar region; together with some account of the instrument with which they were made: and a new set of tables, by which they were reduced to the mean position for the beginning of January 1800. To which are added a few other papers and precepts, which it was imagined might be acceptable to the practical astronomer.
London, printed by Luke Hansard, sold by G. Wilkie and D. Bremner, 1800. 4to (27 x ca. 21 cm). With a divisional title page for part 2. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, re-backed with the original backstrip laid down. [3], [1 blank], 256; 87, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Ypey on conic sections, with 50 mathematical figures

YPEY, Nicolaas. Grondbeginzelen der kegelsneeden, bevattende de eerste en voornaamste eigenschappen van de parabola, ellips en hyperbola. Ten dienste der leerlingen opgesteld.
Amsterdam, Yntema and Tieboel, 1769. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates, head- and tailpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled-paper sides. XXVIII, 68 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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The work that revolutionised ocean navigation

[ZACUTO, Abraham Ben Samuel]. Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuu[m].
(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, October 1498. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. 20th-century limp vellum, sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints, with the manuscript name of the (wrong) author and year of publication on the spine. [122] ll. Full description
€ 90,000
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First edition of Valk's work on astronomy and the use of celestial and terrestial globes

[ZUMBACH VON KOESFELD, Lothar] and Gerard VALK (engraver and publisher). 't Werkstellige der sterre-konst ...
Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, [late 17th or early 18th century (ca. 1701?)]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, and 4 folding engraved plates. Further with a few tables in the text, some woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Contemporary stiff orange-brown sprinkled paper boards. [1], [1 blank], [2], 140 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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