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Astronomy
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A Gorgeous Globe Book
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HABRECHT, Isaac /STURM, J.C.. Planiglobium Coeleste Ac Terestre Platte Stern-und Lander-Kugel... Nurnberg, 1666.
Extremely rare German edition (a Latin edition was published the same year) of Sturm's enlargement of Habrecht's famous Tractatum de planiglobis coelesti & terrestri on the making of celestial and terrestrial globes, published in 1628.
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THE PROPORTIONAL COMPASS COMES TO FRANCE
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HENRION, D.. Usage du compas de Proportion. Paris, Michel Daniel, 1618.
Very rare first edition of this illustrated work on the proportional compass, probably the first such work published in France, and indisputably the book to popularize use of the instrument in that country.
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"An Able, Exellently Illustrated Book on Surveying" - Waters
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HOPTON, Arthur. Speculum topographicum: or, the topographicall glasse. London, N. Okes for Simon Waterson, 1611.
Rare, extensively illustrated English-language treatise on navigation and surveying, introducing the author's invention, the "topographicall glasse."
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With the Rare World Map
‘The Foundation of All Planetary calculations for over a Century’ – Sparrow
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KEPLER, Johannes. Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus Astronomicae Scientiae, Temporum longinquitate collapsae Resauratio continetur.. Ulm, J. Saur, 1627.
First edition, with the magnificent and very rare world map.
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An Astronomical Perpetual Calendar
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SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo. Novissima Inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilite prestezza Horologi Solari, Italiani, Babilonici, e Francesi. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario per Bernardo Luciani, 1688.
Rare first and sole edition of this description of a sundial of the author's invention, which functioned as an astronomical perpetual calendar: determining for any day of the year the sun's rising, noon, setting, and mid-night, place of the sun in the Zodiac, etc. The work explains how to take basic measurements and co-ordinate them with the known physical points of Northern Italian cities through the calendar.
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