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ADAMS, John Couch.

An Explanation of the Observed Irregularities in the Motion of Uranus on the Hypothesis of Disturbances Caused by a More Distant Planet; with a determination of the mass, orbit, and position of the disturbing body. Offprint from the Appendix of the Nautical Almanac for the Year 1851.

London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1846. 8vo (232 x 146 mm). [3] 4-31 [1] pp. Original printed self-wrappers as issued, stitched, pages partially unopened and uncut. Very little age-toned, faint offsetting on title-page. A clean, crisp and completely unsophisticated copy. ----

Dibner 16; Sparrow 1; Norman 7; Evans 24; DSB... More

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AL BATTANI, Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Jabir [Albategnius].

[Kitab al-Zij]. Mahometis Albatenii de Scientia Stellarum Liber cum aliquot additionibus Joannis Regiomontani ex Bibliotheca Vaticana transcriptus.

Bologna: Typis Haeredis Victorii Benatii, 1645. 4to (223 x 160 mm). [16], 228, [4] pp., including half-title, fine engraved frontispiece with Medici arms by Coriolano, errata and imprimatur/colophon leaves at end, the latter with large printer's device. Numerous woodcut astronomical diagrams in text. Text within ruled borders throughout. Contemporary full... More

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ALFONSO X, King of Castile and Leon (ALFONSIUS).

Tabulae astronomicae - Johannes DANCK (fl. first half 14th century). Canones in tabulas Alphonsi.

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483. 4 July 1483. 4to (214 x 157 mm). 93 unfoliated leaves (of 94, without initial blank). Collation: a-l⁸ m⁶ (-a1, a2r incipit, text of the Canons of John of Saxony, b3v supplement to the Canons of John of Saxony, c1r astronomical tables, m3r explanation of figure... More

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ANGSTRÖM, Anders Jonas.

Recherches sur le Spectre Solaire. [Atlas contenant les longeurs d'onde des raies Frauenhofériennes données en 1/10,000000 de millimètre].

Uppsala: W. Schultz, 1868. Two parts comprising text volume and atlas folder with plates. Text volume: 4to (310 x 240 mm), Plates: oblong folio (320 x 500 mm). Text volume: [4], 42, xv [1] pp., lithographed frontispiece. Atlas volume: title leaf and 6 lithographed plates. Original publisher's printed wrappers to... More

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ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm August.

Catalog der astronomischen Gesellschaft. 1. Abt., 1. - 15. Stück u. 2. Abt., 1. - 4. Stück.

Leipzig: Astronomischen Gesellschaft, 1890. Published 1890-1910. 9 Volumes set. Half cloth with red morocco lables. Fundamentalkatalog. -

Die endgültige Fassung der "Bonner Durchmusterung", exakte Auflistung mit Standorten aller Sterne der Zonen -2° bis -18° und +1° bis +80°. - Die Messungen beruhen auf Beobachtungen der wichtigsten Sternwarten der Welt (Nicolajew... More

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ARGOLI, Andrea.

Ptolemaeus Parvus in Genethliacis junctus Arabibus.

Lyon: Joseph and Pierre Vilort, 1652. 8vo (238 x 175 mm). [8], 247 [1] pp. Signatures: )(⁴, A-P⁸, Q⁴. Woodcut device to title-page, several astrological woodcut diagrams and astronomical tables in text. Bound in 20th-century vellum over boards, new endpapers. All pages untrimmed. Little browning of text, minor spotting and... More

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BARTHOLIN, Caspar.

Astrologia Seu De Stellarum Natura, affectionibus, & effectionibus. Exercitatio : Qua difficultates praecipuae, de Stellarum Definitione, caußis, Ordine, ... succincte & nervose ecpediuntur; Cum Indice Quaestionum. Editio Septima Correctior mendos a tertia & melior ... / Enchiridion Metaphysicum. Editio octava. / Enchiridion Ethicum Seu Epitome Philosophiae Moralis : Praecepta breviter ... & facili explicata exhibens.

Wittenberg: Casparus Heiden, 1624. Sammelband including three works. Astrologia Seu De Stellarum Natura, affectionibus, & effectionibus. Exercitatio : Qua difficultates praecipuae, de Stellarum Definitione, caußis, Ordine, . . . succincte & nervose ecpediuntur; Cum Indice Quaestionum. Editio Septima Correctior mendos a tertia & melior . . . [Wittenberg]: Casparus Heiden... More

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BERNOULLI, Jean.

Mémoire sur la proposition de construire de nouvelles tables du soleil et de la lune, qui a remporté le prix proposé par la Société roïale des sciences de Copenhague pour l'anneé MDCCLXXIX.

Copenhagen: Auguste Friderich Stein, 1784. 4to (257 x 213 mm). 54, [2] pp. including final blank. Modern plain wrappers. Untrimmed with pages unopened. Some minor foxing and light marginal browning. ----

DSB II, p.56. Very rare first edition of a prize essay by the French mathematician Jean Bernoulli in which... More

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BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Fundamenta astronomiae pro anno MDCCLV deducta ex observationbibus viri incomparabilis James Bradley in specula astronomica Grenovicensi per annos 1750 - 1762 institutis.

Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1818. Folio (326x202 mm). [12], 325 [1] pp. Later half cloth over sprinkled boards (some wear to extemities, corners bumped), paper label to spine, occasional light spotting and browning, title-page with old ink stamps and shelf mark. ---

Houzeau-L. 10117; DSB II, 99 u. 102; Norman 226... More

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BODE, Johann Englert & LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich, editors.

Astronomisches Jahrbuch für die Jahre 1776 bis 1829. Complete set of 53 volumes, 4 supplements, 1 index volume and 1 volume of Erläuterungen bound in 34 volumes.

Berlin: Haude u. Spenerschen Buchhandlung, Ferd. Dümmler and others, 1774. 8vo (204 x 124 mm). In total 18380 pages and 116 engraved folding plates (2 hand coloured). The supplements are dated 1793 (I), 1795 (II), 1797 (III), and 1808 (IV), the Erläuterungen über die Einrichtung und dem Gebrauch seiner astronomischen... More

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BRADLEY, James & BLISS, Nathaniel.

Astronomical Observations, made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, from the year 1750 to the year 1764.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. Vol. 1 and Part 2 of Vol. 2 only, bound in 2 Volumes, (2), LVI, 301, 156, 202 pp.; (2), 396 pp. Contemporary half leather, spines gilt, with labels, rubbed, bumped and somwhat soiled. Spine of vol. 2 torn.. Old stamp on title recto cancelled; glue... More

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BRAHE, Tycho.

Opera omnia, sive astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata in duas partes distributa.

Frankfurt: Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1648. 4to (221 x 178 mm). 470, [10] pp. (last leaf blank); 217, [5] pp., including 2 leaves of dedication by Schönwetter bound at the end. Separate title-page to second part, printer's woodcut devices to each title-page and page [218] of second part, numerous (9 full... More

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CATANEO, Giovanni Battista (CATTANEO, Giambattista).

Tavole nuove a modo di almanaco : per trovare con il giuoco di tre dadi perpetuamente il far della luna, le feste mobili, la lettera dominicale, l'aureo numero, il ciclo solare, l'indittione, & l'epatta, con molt' altre cose utili, e nocessarie alla gionata, comme nella tavola si uede.

Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola, 1566. Folio (293 x 208 mm). [4], 42 leaves. Signatures: *⁴ A-G⁶. Printer's woodcut device on title, historiated initials, large woodcut illustrating the arms of the dedicatee Camilla Torella, letterpress tables. Later half vellum over xylographed paper boards, old ink lettering and shelf label to spine (little... More

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CLAIRAUT, Alexis Claude.

Théorie de la lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction réciproquement proportionnelle aux quarrés des distances.

Paris: Dessaint & Saillant, 1765. 4to (252x200 mm), [1-3] 4 [5] 6-7 [8], [1] 2-161 [1] pp. and folding plate with diagrams. Contemporary French calf with 5 raised bands, gilt in compartments and with red morocco label (hinges cracked, extremities worn, boards rubbed), red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers, text only very... More

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CLAIRAUT, Alexis Claude.

Théorie du mouvement des comètes, dans laquelle on a égard aux altérations que leurs orbites éprouvent par l'action des planètes. Avec l'application de cette théorie à la comète qui a été observée dans les années 1531, 1607, 1682 & 1759.

Paris: Chez Michel Lambert, 1760. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). [2] i-xiv, [1] 2-247 [1] pp. Woodcut device on title, letterpress tables, 2 folding engraved plates bound at the end. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt-lettered red morocco label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers... More

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CLAVIUS, Christophorus.

Gnomonices libri octo.

Rome: Francesco Zanetti, 1581. Folio (321 x 228 mm). [16], 654, [2] pp. Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-E⁶ F⁸ G-GGg⁶ HHh⁸. Engraved title, several woodcut diagrams and tables in text, decorated and historiated woodcut initials. Colophon and printer's woodcut device on final leaf 3H8r. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (vellum... More

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[COMETS].

Dissertations sur la théorie des comètes qui ont concouru au prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belle lettres de Prusse, pour l'année 1777, & adjugé en 1778.

Utrecht: Barthélémy Wild, 1780. 4to (257x202 mm). [4], 239 (recte 237) [1] pp. , including 3 engraved plates and 7 folding tables. Contains the following contributions: - 1. CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Essai sur la théorie des comètes. - 2. TEMPELHOFF, Georg Friedrich von. Essai sur la solution... More

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CUNITZ, Maria [CUNITIA, Maria].

Urania propitia sive Tabulae astronomicae mirè faciles, vim hypothesium physicarum à Kepplero proditarum complexae; facillimo calculandi compendio, sine ullâ logarithmorum mentione, phaenomenis satisfacientes. Quarum usum pro tempore praesente, . . . duplici idiomate, Latino & vernaculo . . . communicat Maria Cunitia. Das ist: Newe und Langgewünschete leichte Astronomische Tabelln durch derer vermittelung auff eine sonders behende Arth aller Planeten Bewegung nach der länge, breite, und andern Zufällen auff alle vergangene, gegenwertige, und künfftige Zeits-Puncten fürgestellet wird. Den kunstliebenden Deutcher Nation zu gutt berfürgegeben.

Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Two parts in two volumes. Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Folio (315 x 192 mm). [24], 1-144 [i.e. 146], [2], 147-264, [2]; 268, [2] pp., including half-title, title printed in red and black, 3 errata leaves, and 2 (of 3) folding letterpress tables, lacking table... More

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EULER, Leonhard.

Sur les inégalités du mouvement de Saturne & de Jupiter: Piece qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie royale des sciences en M. DCC. XLVIII. Selon la fondation faite par feu M. Rouillé de Meslay, ancien Conseiller au Parlement.

Paris: chez Gabr. Martin, J. B. Coignard & H. L. Guerin, 1749. 4to (216 x 179 mm). iv, 123 [1] pp., folding engraved plate; 2 folding tables. Later simple paper wrapper, disbound, red-sprinkled edges. A few pages folded-in to protect extending mathematical equations. Paper little browned, faint foxing and occasional... More

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EULER, Leonhard.

Theoria Motuum Lunae, nova methodo pertractata una cum Tabulis Astronomicis, unde ad quodvis tempus Loca Lunae expedite computari possunt. .

St. Petersburg: Typis Academiae imperialis scientiarum, 1772. 4to (255 x 200 mm). [16], 775 [1] pp., including one folding engraved plate. Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked with modern calf, spine ruled in gilt, with 5 raised bands and two gilt-lettered morocco labels (boards scratched, extremities worn, corners bumped and scuffed)... More

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EULER, Leonhard.

Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum. Continens methodum facilem... orbitas cum planetarum cum cometarum determinandi, una cum calculo, quo cometae, qui annis 1680 et 1681... motus verus investigatur.

Berlin: A. Haude, 1744. 4to. (246x185 mm). [2]-187 (i.e. 188) pp., engraved frontispiece by F.H. Fritsch, device on title and 4 plates; without the cancel leaf A4 as in almost all copies. Quarter calf, rebacked preserving original spine. Ex libris label by Peter P. Stucker to inner front board, presentation... More

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FLUDD, Robert.

Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia & scientia creationis & creaturarum .. explicatur. - Philosophiae Moysaicae sectio secunda in qua fundamenta radicalia tam sympathiae sive attractionis naturalis, aut coitionis concupiscibilis, & consequenter omnis magneticae curationis .. demonstrantur. Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum M. Fosteri Presbiteri, ab ipso, ad unguenti armarii validitatem delendam ordinatum.

Gouda: P. Rammazenius, 1638. 3 Parts in 1 volume. Folio (304 x 200 mm). [4], 152 (i.e. 144); 30 leaves. Half-title, engraved title illustration to both parts of the Philosophia Moysaica, and over 30 illustrations (4 engravings and 26 woodcuts) in text. Without the final errata leaf. Signatures: (*)4 A-Nn4;... More

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FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de.

A Plurality of Worlds. Written in French by the Author of the Dialogues of the Dead. Translated into English by Mr. Glanvill.

London: for R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1688. 8vo (162 x 102 mm). [12], 152 pp. Signatures: A⁶ B-K⁸ L⁴. E4 is a cancel leaf. Contemporary mottled calf, elaborate gilt spine (upper joint neatly repaired, head of spine slightly chipped), preserved in cloth slipcase. Internally only slightly browned, a little... More

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FRACASTORO, Girolamo (FRACASTORIUS).

Homocentrica. Eiusdem de causis criticorm dierum per ea quae in nobis sunt. Cum gratia per annos decem M D XXXVIII.

Venice: [Nicolini da Sabio?], 1538. 4to (210 x 150 mm). [4], 78 leaves. Full-page woodcut portrait of Fracastoro on verso of leaf [4], several woodcut diagrams and initials within text. Contemporary limp vellum (binding restored, new endpapers), spine with faint hand-lettering. Paper repair to lower blank margin of title-page and... More

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FRISI, Paolo.

De gravitate universali corporum libri tres.

Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1768. 4to (272 x 201 mm). [12], 420 pp. Printer's woodcut device on title, 6 folding engraved plates. Early 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and with two gilt lettering pieces (wear to hinges, spine and extremities rubbed), red-dyed edges. Text generally... More

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