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Auction archive: Lot number 66

KEPLER, Johannes. Harmonices Mundi libri V , Linz: sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, excudebat Ioannes Plancus, 1619, 2°, FIRST EDITION, probable first state of the title with device and without the text beginning "Accessit nunc ...," 5 engraved plates,...

Auction 02.07.1994
2 Jul 1994
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,091 - US$4,636
Price realised:
£10,450
ca. US$16,152
Auction archive: Lot number 66

KEPLER, Johannes. Harmonices Mundi libri V , Linz: sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, excudebat Ioannes Plancus, 1619, 2°, FIRST EDITION, probable first state of the title with device and without the text beginning "Accessit nunc ...," 5 engraved plates,...

Auction 02.07.1994
2 Jul 1994
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,091 - US$4,636
Price realised:
£10,450
ca. US$16,152
Beschreibung:

KEPLER, Johannes. Harmonices Mundi libri V , Linz: sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, excudebat Ioannes Plancus, 1619, 2°, FIRST EDITION, probable first state of the title with device and without the text beginning "Accessit nunc ...," 5 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and musical notation (title dampstained, perforated and very frail with tattered margins, title and preliminaries noticeably creased at corners, accession stamp at foot of *2r, further stamp on 2C1r, S1 badly creased, some heavy browning); Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicum continens Mysterium Cosmographicum ... Item, eiusdem Ioannis Kepleri suo opere harmonices mundi apologia adversus demonstrationem , Frankfurt: typis Erasmi Kempferi, sumptibus Godefredi Tampachii, 1621-22, 2 parts, 2°, second edition of the Prodromus , large device on title to Part 2, 4 folding woodcut plates, one folding engraved plate (this cleanly torn and repaired with adhesive tape on recto and verso, plates and title to Part 2 stamped on verso), woodcut diagrams in text (some browning, later leaves creased at corners), 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum (worn and crinkled). I: Brunet III, 652; Caspar 58; Dibner 6; Honeyman 1796; Horblit 58; Norman 1207; Sparrow 115; Zinner 4737] II: Bruent III, 653; Caspar 67, 68; Honeyman 1796; Sparrow 115; Zinner 4871, 4909] Provenance : JCL

Auction archive: Lot number 66
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

KEPLER, Johannes. Harmonices Mundi libri V , Linz: sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, excudebat Ioannes Plancus, 1619, 2°, FIRST EDITION, probable first state of the title with device and without the text beginning "Accessit nunc ...," 5 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and musical notation (title dampstained, perforated and very frail with tattered margins, title and preliminaries noticeably creased at corners, accession stamp at foot of *2r, further stamp on 2C1r, S1 badly creased, some heavy browning); Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicum continens Mysterium Cosmographicum ... Item, eiusdem Ioannis Kepleri suo opere harmonices mundi apologia adversus demonstrationem , Frankfurt: typis Erasmi Kempferi, sumptibus Godefredi Tampachii, 1621-22, 2 parts, 2°, second edition of the Prodromus , large device on title to Part 2, 4 folding woodcut plates, one folding engraved plate (this cleanly torn and repaired with adhesive tape on recto and verso, plates and title to Part 2 stamped on verso), woodcut diagrams in text (some browning, later leaves creased at corners), 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum (worn and crinkled). I: Brunet III, 652; Caspar 58; Dibner 6; Honeyman 1796; Horblit 58; Norman 1207; Sparrow 115; Zinner 4737] II: Bruent III, 653; Caspar 67, 68; Honeyman 1796; Sparrow 115; Zinner 4871, 4909] Provenance : JCL

Auction archive: Lot number 66
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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