Woodcut printer’s device on title. 4 p.l., 400 pp. Small thick 8vo, cont. richly blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, one of the stamps with “H M” with the date “160[?]”, two catches & one (of two) clasps. Hanau: G. Antonius, 1607.

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THEODORICUS, Sebastianus. Novae Quaestiones Sphaericae, hoc est, de Circulis Coelestibus & primo mobili, in gratiam studiosae juventutis scriptae. Woodcut on title, numerous astronomical woodcuts in the text, three folding printed tables, & one large woodcut plate. 8 p.l. (the last a blank), 320 pp. Small 8vo. Wittenberg: L. Seuberlich for S. Selfisch, 1605. More

Lithographed frontispiece of Lenoir by Lasteyrie in Vol. I. Vol. I: 1–99 leaves; Vol. II: 98–279 leaves; Vol. III: 278bis–328 leaves; Vol. IV: 1–168 leaves; Vol. V: 169–253 leaves. Five vols. Small folio (ca. 335 x 220 mm.), Vols. I-IV disbound, Vol. V in cont. cloth-backed paste-paper boards (extremities worn). Paris: ca. 1830.

A remarkable discovery: the unpublished working manuscript, with numerous corrections and additions, of Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839), the controversial director of the revolutionary Musée des Monuments Français, antiquary, and critic. This manuscript remains unstudied in its entirety. While the manuscript was evidently prepared to be sent to the printer, Lenoir clearly could not let it... More

Woodcut vignette on title & three engraved plates (one folding). 3 p.l., 50 pp. Small 4to, attractive modern paste-paper wrappers. Giessen: F. Karger, [1665].

First edition of this rare and appealing book. Müller is described on the title as a professor at the Giessen Academy. In this work, he describes the physical, astronomical, and astrological aspects of the two comets of 1664 and 1665; their appearance “prompted treatises from many important astronomers and their widely varying conclusions and theories underscored contemporary confusion concerning the nature of comets.”–Yeoman, Comets, p. 70.

The primitive but attractive vignette depicts a man with a telescope observing the sky. The three engraved plates depicts the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic systems. More

Title within typographical border & fine woodcut port. of the author on next leaf. 2 p.l., 106 numbered leaves. 4to, cont. blind-stamped pigskin-backed wooden boards, clasps & catches, upper cover stamped in black "P v P." Cologne: Heirs of A. Birckmann, 1566.

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-- Astronomica et Astrologica...Opuscula aliquot, jetzt erst in Truck geben, und nach der Vorred verzeichnet. Title within typographical border. Fine full-page woodcut port. of Paracelsus on recto of 9th preliminary leaf, woodcut arms on recto of penultimate leaf of the city of Cologne (repeated on p. 179), on verso the arms of Paracelsus, & another full-page woodcut port. of the... More

Eighteen woodcut diagrams in the text, numerous woodcut initials, & a woodcut printer’s device on recto of final leaf. Rubricated throughout in red. Gothic type, 66 lines & headlines. Two columns. 2 p.l., 152 numbered leaves. Folio (310 x 210 mm.), cont. blindstamped pigskin-backed wooden boards (spine a little rubbed, some unimportant worming at front & back), orig. or early clasps & catches. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for O. Scotus, 20 Dec. 1493.

Second edition, enlarged with the addition of other important astrological texts, of Ptolemy’s Quadripartitum, a textbook of astrology more usually known today under its Greek title, the Tetrabiblos. “Ptolemy’s Quadripartitium ranks as the Bible of Astrology, but... More

18 leaves. Small 4to, attractive modern marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Wittenberg: C. Heyden, 1619.

First edition of this rare book which is considered by A.D.B. to be the author’s most important scientific work; it is a careful record of the third of the three bright comets of 1618-19. Schmidt (1570-1637), was “one of the last of the scholars of Germany who taught the language and literature of Greece in the spirit of Melanchthon. [Schmidt] was professor, first of Greek, and next of Mathematics, at Wittenberg. His principal work was an edition of Pindar, with a Latin translation and... More

One large woodcut diagram in the text. 24 unnumbered leaves. Small 4to, modern boards. Nuremberg: G. Schenck, 21 September 1502.

First edition; this is the first of only two books known to have been printed by Georg Schenck and the author’s only book. “In 1502 there was printed at Nürnberg a defense of astrology by Jakob Schonheintz, a doctor of arts and medicine and a Franconian. He signs his preface at Würzburg. The immediate occasion of this defense was ‘the impudence of a certain man who wishes himself to be considered a theologian, although he is anything else than one, who had attacked... More