COPERNICUS, NICOLAUS. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1566. Printer's woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams and tables throughout. Folio, 270 x 181 mm. (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.), late 19th-century half calf; lacking final errata leaf Gg6 (containing printer's device), a little fraying to title margins, some pale marginal dampstaining, some browning and foxing to text. Second edition, and the first to include Rheticus's Narratio prima, the first printed account of Copernican theory (first published 1540). Dibner Heralds of Science 2 (note), 3 (note); Houzeau & Lancaster 2503; Rocco/Cinti 3; See Horblit sale, part I (Sotheby's London, 11 June 1974) lot 241; Adams C2603.