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HEVELIUS, Johannes (1611-1687). Selenographia: sive lunae descriptio; atque Accurata, Tam Macularum eius, addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio. Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld for the author, 1647.
2° (354 x 224mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title by Jeremias Falck after Adolf Boÿ with portraits of Alhazen and Galileo, 110 engraved plates by Hevelius, 20 printed recto and verso, 3 double-page folding, plate 21 complete with volvelle and string, with 2 additional plates, RRR and the solar eclipse plate, 26 illustrations, double-page letterpress table of eclipses. (Lacking engraved portrait of Hevelius and second blank leaf, half-title tipped in on front endpaper and with repair in lower outer corner, same corner of title and engraved title a little frayed, light waterstaining throughout, mainly in margin but also affecting text and plates.) Contemporary vellum (vellum split at front joint, lightly soiled). Provenance: Maurice Bethmann (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE LUNAR ATLAS, and Hevelius's first important work, which contains the results of four years' observations from the specially built observatory — once the finest in the world — at his house in Danzig, using instruments of his own construction. Hevelius describes his instruments in detail, recounts his observations of the planets and discusses lunar markings and the movement of libration, an irregularity of the moon's motion. His observations of the lunar eclipse on 4 November 1649 are contained in an appendix between pp.548-549. The Selenographia ends with a description of a mounted lunar globe, ‘perhaps the first of its kind, permitting the representation of librational movements’ (DSB). Many of the names given to lunar features by Hevelius are still in use. The fine engravings depicting his instruments and lunar maps are by his own hand. According to the index, the work is complete with 110 plates (collation of plates varies between 110 and 111). Brunet III, 150; BYU/Hevelius 1; Cinti 120; Houzeau and Lancaster 1252; Honeyman 1672; Wardington 1030.
2° (354 x 224mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title by Jeremias Falck after Adolf Boÿ with portraits of Alhazen and Galileo, 110 engraved plates by Hevelius, 20 printed recto and verso, 3 double-page folding, plate 21 complete with volvelle and string, with 2 additional plates, RRR and the solar eclipse plate, 26 illustrations, double-page letterpress table of eclipses. (Lacking engraved portrait of Hevelius and second blank leaf, half-title tipped in on front endpaper and with repair in lower outer corner, same corner of title and engraved title a little frayed, light waterstaining throughout, mainly in margin but also affecting text and plates.) Contemporary vellum (vellum split at front joint, lightly soiled). Provenance: Maurice Bethmann (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE LUNAR ATLAS, and Hevelius's first important work, which contains the results of four years' observations from the specially built observatory — once the finest in the world — at his house in Danzig, using instruments of his own construction. Hevelius describes his instruments in detail, recounts his observations of the planets and discusses lunar markings and the movement of libration, an irregularity of the moon's motion. His observations of the lunar eclipse on 4 November 1649 are contained in an appendix between pp.548-549. The Selenographia ends with a description of a mounted lunar globe, ‘perhaps the first of its kind, permitting the representation of librational movements’ (DSB). Many of the names given to lunar features by Hevelius are still in use. The fine engravings depicting his instruments and lunar maps are by his own hand. According to the index, the work is complete with 110 plates (collation of plates varies between 110 and 111). Brunet III, 150; BYU/Hevelius 1; Cinti 120; Houzeau and Lancaster 1252; Honeyman 1672; Wardington 1030.
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