ASTRONOMY -- AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE (c.360-c.290BC) – AURIA, Joseph (fl.1580s), translator. De vario ortu et occasu astrorum inerrantium. Libri duo. Rome: V. Accolto, 1588. 4° (226 x 160mm). Woodcut armorial device to title, printer’s device on colophon, text-diagrams, initials, ornamental typographic headlines (Occasional faint spotting.) Modern vellum-backed boards (new endpapers). [Sold with:] ESCAMEGE, Lafranco. Cynisis Planetarum Cioè Vario Moto delle Sfere Con la considerazione dell'apparenza delle Stelle Calcolato al Meridiano dell'Inclita Citta. Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1648. Small 4°, modern vellum. [And:] [BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787)]. De observationibus astronomici. Rome: [1742]. 4° Engraved folding plate. (Repairs at gutter extending into text and affecting a few words.) Modern wrappers reusing 19th-century printed wrappers. [And:] GENERINI, Francesco. Disegno del globo andante ... formato da lui per mostrare il moto diurno, lunare et annuo. Florence: 1645. Small 4°. Large folding bifolium at end with full-page engraving of a statue of Atlas shouldering Generini’s celestial globe with letterpress key, woodcut headpiece and initials, typographic ornamental headpiece. Modern calf. [And:] ANON. Osservationi sopra la prossima ecclisse del sole. Venice: 1684. Half-title, folding engraved plate, final blank. (Short tear in text on C6 affecting a few letters, but without loss, occasional light spotting and staining.) Modern mottled calf. COLLECTION OF RARE ITALIAN ASTRONOMICAL TREATISES, including one of Boskovic’s works on the theoretical foundation and practical application of astronomy, an excellent copper-engraving of Generini’s celestial globe, and a scarce work on the solar eclipse of 1684 (Worldcat records only one copy at University of Oklahoma).