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BRAHE, Tycho. De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis, liber secundus. [Hven: for the author, 1588]-Frankfurt: Godfrey Tampachius, 1610.
4° (233 x 175mm). Collation: )(4 **4 A-MMM4 NNN2. Title device, allegorical device at end, 2 woodcuts of astronomical instruments and numerous woodcut text diagrams. (Some light dampstaining and browning.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, author's name lettered on spine, old paper spine label, without two fore-edge ties (some minor staining, light wear at edges).
FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE of Brahe's work on the comet of 1577. The original sheets printed at Brahe's observatory on Hven, Uraniborg, in 1588 were used for the present edition, as they were for the 1603 edition (see previous lot). They passed to Tampach, who re-issued the work in 1610, re-setting the first two and the final quires and omitting the portrait which was printed on the title verso of the previous edition. Dreyer, Brahe p.369; Houzeau & Lancaster 2699.
[Bound with:]
BRAHE, Tycho. Epistolarum astronomicarum libri. [Hven: for the author, 1596] and Frankfurt: Godfrey Tampachius, 1610.
4°. Collation: *4 (:)4 ):(4 (*)4 )*(4 A-Qq4. Title device, 6 woodcut illustrations of Hven and Uraniborg. (Some browning and spotting, very slight wormtrack in 3 preliminary leaves, stain in one quire.)
First edition, third issue. The letters are between Brahe, Landgraf William IV of Hesse, and his astronomer Christopher Rothman. William was keenly interested in astronomy and he and Brahe had conferred and made astronomical observations together, and it was at William's recommendation that Brahe was granted Hven. Their correspondence contains observations, including on the comet of 1585, techniques of observation, and Brahe's description of Hven and his instruments. As other of Brahe's works, the original sheets (1596) passed to the printer Hlsius who reprinted the title-page and re-issued the work in 1601. The remainder sheets then passed to Tampach who re-issued the work again in 1610 with a new title-page and some sheets reprinted. Adams B-2655; Dreyer, Brahe, p.369-70; Houzeau & Lancaster 7824.
4° (233 x 175mm). Collation: )(
FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE of Brahe's work on the comet of 1577. The original sheets printed at Brahe's observatory on Hven, Uraniborg, in 1588 were used for the present edition, as they were for the 1603 edition (see previous lot). They passed to Tampach, who re-issued the work in 1610, re-setting the first two and the final quires and omitting the portrait which was printed on the title verso of the previous edition. Dreyer, Brahe p.369; Houzeau & Lancaster 2699.
[Bound with:]
BRAHE, Tycho. Epistolarum astronomicarum libri. [Hven: for the author, 1596] and Frankfurt: Godfrey Tampachius, 1610.
4°. Collation: *
First edition, third issue. The letters are between Brahe, Landgraf William IV of Hesse, and his astronomer Christopher Rothman. William was keenly interested in astronomy and he and Brahe had conferred and made astronomical observations together, and it was at William's recommendation that Brahe was granted Hven. Their correspondence contains observations, including on the comet of 1585, techniques of observation, and Brahe's description of Hven and his instruments. As other of Brahe's works, the original sheets (1596) passed to the printer Hlsius who reprinted the title-page and re-issued the work in 1601. The remainder sheets then passed to Tampach who re-issued the work again in 1610 with a new title-page and some sheets reprinted. Adams B-2655; Dreyer, Brahe, p.369-70; Houzeau & Lancaster 7824.