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Gaetano Fontana

Institutio Physico-Astronomica Adiecta in Fine Appendice Geographica

Antonio Capponi and the heirs of Pontiroli,

1639 - 1695

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First editions of three works of astronomy bound together.

  • Octavo.
  • Bound in 18th-century speckled calf with green morocco spine label.


Institutio Physico-Astronomica Adiecta in Fine Appendice Geographica.

  • Gaetano Fontana (Italian).
  • Modena: Antonio Capponi and the heirs of Pontiroli, 1695.
  • xvi, 230 pages.
  • Woodcut illustration on title-page, initials, head- and tailpieces, diagrams and inserted plate. 
  • South Library bookplate, 1860, embossed stamp to title-page and following leaf of first title of the Earls of Macclesfield.


In Ismaelis Bullialdi astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta, inquisitio brevis.

  • Andreas Goldmayr (German).
  • Oxford: Leon. Lichfield, 1653.
  • [6], 47, [1 (blank)] pages.
  • Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams.


Himmlische harmoni, das ist harmonische ewigwehrende astronomische tafeln des Lauffs der Sonnen und des Monds, von newen calculiret.

  • Seth Ward (English).
  • Nuremberg: Jeremias Dümler, 1639.
  • 91, [1 (blank)] pages.
  • Elaborate woodcut border on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.

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In Ismaelis Bullialdi astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta.

Faint dampstain.


Himmlische harmoni.

Title-page cropped.

One leaf shaved.

Some browning.

 

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First Edition

Language

Italian, German, English

Subject

Astronomy, Travel and Exploration, History

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