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Auction archive: Lot number 43

KEPLER, Joannes (1571-1630) - Ad vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.

Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$19,815 - US$29,723
Price realised:
£11,500
ca. US$22,787
Auction archive: Lot number 43

KEPLER, Joannes (1571-1630) - Ad vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.

Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$19,815 - US$29,723
Price realised:
£11,500
ca. US$22,787
Beschreibung:

Ad vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.
Frankfurt: Claude Marne and the heirs of Jean Aubry 1604. 4to (200 x 165 mm). Engraved plate depicting cross-section of various eyes, 2 folding tables, woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum, titled in manuscript on spine . Condition: generally browned throughout. first edition, “The six astronomical chapters include not only a discussion of parallax, astronomical refraction, and his eclipse instruments but also the annual variation in the apparent size of the sun” ( DSB VII , p. 298). Caspar 18: Krivatsky 6343; Cinti 13.

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
5 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Ad vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.
Frankfurt: Claude Marne and the heirs of Jean Aubry 1604. 4to (200 x 165 mm). Engraved plate depicting cross-section of various eyes, 2 folding tables, woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum, titled in manuscript on spine . Condition: generally browned throughout. first edition, “The six astronomical chapters include not only a discussion of parallax, astronomical refraction, and his eclipse instruments but also the annual variation in the apparent size of the sun” ( DSB VII , p. 298). Caspar 18: Krivatsky 6343; Cinti 13.

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
5 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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