Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de) De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico libri duo, first edition, engraved frontispiece (slightly water-stained), title in red and black with engraved vignette of a plan of Vienna, 4 plates printed recto and verso, one with tear just encroaching on plate-mark, 44 folding plates, illustrations, some light offsetting, later green half morocco over marbled boards, modern cloth drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams M37; Riccardi ii, 119], folio, Vienna, Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, 1745. ⁂ Lavishly produced work describing the astronomical instruments in Marinoni's private observatory. "One of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed" (Kenney). Includes the so-called culminatorium, Marinoni's wall quadrant, the quadrans ampliatus and the micrometer. Marinoni (1676-1755) studied in Vienna and became imperial mathematician and teacher in astronomy to the Empress Maria Theresa, to whom this work is dedicated. Provenance: Marchese Bourbon di Monte, di Petrella (armorial bookplate lettered "Ex Libris Petrellianis").
Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de) De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico libri duo, first edition, engraved frontispiece (slightly water-stained), title in red and black with engraved vignette of a plan of Vienna, 4 plates printed recto and verso, one with tear just encroaching on plate-mark, 44 folding plates, illustrations, some light offsetting, later green half morocco over marbled boards, modern cloth drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams M37; Riccardi ii, 119], folio, Vienna, Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, 1745. ⁂ Lavishly produced work describing the astronomical instruments in Marinoni's private observatory. "One of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed" (Kenney). Includes the so-called culminatorium, Marinoni's wall quadrant, the quadrans ampliatus and the micrometer. Marinoni (1676-1755) studied in Vienna and became imperial mathematician and teacher in astronomy to the Empress Maria Theresa, to whom this work is dedicated. Provenance: Marchese Bourbon di Monte, di Petrella (armorial bookplate lettered "Ex Libris Petrellianis").
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