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LUBIENIECKI, Stanislaw (1623-1675). Theatrum cometicum. Amsterdam: Daniel Baccamude for Francis Cuyper, 1666-1668.
3 parts in one volume, 4° (318 x 193mm). First 2 parts with complete number of 69 engraved plates on 67 sheets, including 22 double-page of which 4 folding, errata in first part, second part with half-title and final leaf 'Appendix partis posterioris' signed (*) at end, 2 (of 3) additional engraved part-titles, 1 (of 2) engraved portraits, woodcut diagrams. (Pt 1: engraved title and leaves *6 and gathering **4 repaired at fore-edge, first letterpress title and leaves *2-5 and A1-3 cut short at fore-edge, short marginal tear to D4; pt 2: short marginal tear Hh1, without blanks; pt 3: lacking additional engraved title, portrait of author and ?12 plates, short marginal tear to portrait of Johannes Ernest de Rautenstein; some plates trimmed close to platemark with a few into image, overall light staining to plates with light soiling and creasing to folding plates.) Contemporary red morocco, covers panelled in gilt, gilt spine and edges (upper board detached, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. The first part of the work contains a series of 38 substantial reports on sightings of comets that occurred between December 1664 and January 1665, which excited widespread scientific and popular interest. The descriptions are from a range of observers in different countries, including Bartholin, Curtz, von Guericke, Hevelius, Kircher and Rautenstein, and span Europe from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia. The second part provides a chronology of 415 comet-sightings from the Flood (the first report is dated to 2312 B.C.) to 1665, with commentaries drawn from a range of historical sources. The finely engraved plates that illustrate the first two parts locate the comets on celestial charts, and plot their paths, periods of visibility and duration. The first 2 parts in this copy have the complete number of plates as called for, excepting the portrait of the author. Part 3 in this copy with 80pp., as in many other copies (some variants contain 84pp.). Brunet III, 1194; Graesse IV, p. 270: ‘very rare’.
3 parts in one volume, 4° (318 x 193mm). First 2 parts with complete number of 69 engraved plates on 67 sheets, including 22 double-page of which 4 folding, errata in first part, second part with half-title and final leaf 'Appendix partis posterioris' signed (*) at end, 2 (of 3) additional engraved part-titles, 1 (of 2) engraved portraits, woodcut diagrams. (Pt 1: engraved title and leaves *6 and gathering **4 repaired at fore-edge, first letterpress title and leaves *2-5 and A1-3 cut short at fore-edge, short marginal tear to D4; pt 2: short marginal tear Hh1, without blanks; pt 3: lacking additional engraved title, portrait of author and ?12 plates, short marginal tear to portrait of Johannes Ernest de Rautenstein; some plates trimmed close to platemark with a few into image, overall light staining to plates with light soiling and creasing to folding plates.) Contemporary red morocco, covers panelled in gilt, gilt spine and edges (upper board detached, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. The first part of the work contains a series of 38 substantial reports on sightings of comets that occurred between December 1664 and January 1665, which excited widespread scientific and popular interest. The descriptions are from a range of observers in different countries, including Bartholin, Curtz, von Guericke, Hevelius, Kircher and Rautenstein, and span Europe from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia. The second part provides a chronology of 415 comet-sightings from the Flood (the first report is dated to 2312 B.C.) to 1665, with commentaries drawn from a range of historical sources. The finely engraved plates that illustrate the first two parts locate the comets on celestial charts, and plot their paths, periods of visibility and duration. The first 2 parts in this copy have the complete number of plates as called for, excepting the portrait of the author. Part 3 in this copy with 80pp., as in many other copies (some variants contain 84pp.). Brunet III, 1194; Graesse IV, p. 270: ‘very rare’.
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