Institutio Astronomica ... cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus, et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice ... tertio editio prioribus correctior, London: Henry Dickinson, 1683. 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (179 x 112 mm). 190 leaves. Contemporary calf, title printed in red and black, 4 woodcut plates of constellations, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, cover and free front endpaper detached, chipping to lower corners of first few leaves, browning throughout. Provenance : Ephraim Ludlow (ink gift inscription on free front endpaper dated 1771). THIRD EDITION, FIRST PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND of these classic astronomical texts by Galileo and Kepler. Gassendi's work was first published in Paris in 1647), and is considered the first modern manual of astronomy. PMM 113; Riccardi I:508.
Institutio Astronomica ... cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus, et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice ... tertio editio prioribus correctior, London: Henry Dickinson, 1683. 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (179 x 112 mm). 190 leaves. Contemporary calf, title printed in red and black, 4 woodcut plates of constellations, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, cover and free front endpaper detached, chipping to lower corners of first few leaves, browning throughout. Provenance : Ephraim Ludlow (ink gift inscription on free front endpaper dated 1771). THIRD EDITION, FIRST PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND of these classic astronomical texts by Galileo and Kepler. Gassendi's work was first published in Paris in 1647), and is considered the first modern manual of astronomy. PMM 113; Riccardi I:508.
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