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Astronomy
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The Largest 17th-Century Celestial Globe Gores
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CORONELLI / NOLIN, Jean Baptiste / DEUVEZ, Arnoldus. Orbis Coelestis Typus Opus a P. Coronelli Min. Convent. Serenissimaeque Reipub. Venetae Cosmographo Inchoatum Societatis. Gallicae Sumptibus absolutum Lutetiae Parisiorum... [Paris, n.p., 1693].
A complete set of 24 gores plus 2 calottes for the separately issued Nolin-Deuvez edition of Coronelli's 1-meter- (3-) in-diameter celestial globe, the largest printed celestial globe up to its time, larger and more accurate than the globes by Blaeu and Hondius which preceded it.
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"Europe's Best Observatory" - Dibner
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HEVELIUS, Johannes. Machinae Coelestis pars prior; Organographiam, sive Instrumentum Astronomicorum omnium, quibus Auctor hactenus Sidera rimatus, ac dimensus est. Danzig, Simon Reininger for the Author, 1673.
Extremely rare first edition of this lavishly illustrated, privately printed description by Hevelius of his observatory, "Stellaburgum".
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Stoeffler Sammelband
With Early Manuscript Tables
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STOEFFLER, Johann. Oppenheim, Jacob Koebel, 1514-1524.
Sammelband of Stoeffler's most important works, bound with a highly unusual manuscript leaf of tables that calculate the number of days it would take to walk to each of the planets.
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