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Astronomy
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Dedicatee's Copy "The First Opening For a Scientific Treatment Of a Remarkable Subject” – DNB
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BRADLEY, James. A letter to the Right Honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars. London, 1747.
First edition, separately printed, of Bradley's letter announcing his discovery of nutation of the earth's axis, and the dedicatee's copy, bearing stamps from the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, himself a keen amateur astronomer.
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Galileo (And Scheiner)On Sunspots
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GALILEI, Galileo. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti comprese in tre lettere scritte all’illvstrissimo signor Marco Velseri Linceo… Si aggiungono nel fine le Lettere, e Disquisizioni del finto Apelle. Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.
Rare issue of the first edition of Galileo’s book on sunspots, bound with the works by Scheiner that provoked its writing.
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Paris Looks at the Stars
With 3 Large Comet Plates
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GRANDAMI, Jacques. Le parallele des devx cometes qvi ont parv les années 1664. & 1665. Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy et Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1665.
Rare Jesuit pamphlet on the comets of 1664 and 1665, generously illustrated.
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MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio. Novae Coelestium Orbium Theoricae congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici. Venice, Damiano Zenario, 1589.
First edition of New Theories of the Celestial Orbs Agreeing with the Observations of Copernicus, Magini's principal astronomical treatise.
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RUBEUS, Theodosius. Tabvlae XII, ad eleuationen poli graduum 42. ex quibus, in sex primis, cognoscitur singulis diebus quantitas diei, ac noctis, & vtriusq[ue] crepusculi... Rome, Aloysius Zannetti, 1593.
Rare illustrated pamphlet of tables for determining the sun’s altitude and azimuth, produced by a disciple of Christoph Clavius in the first decade after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar.
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