HEVELIUS, JOHANNES. Selenographia; sive, Lunae descriptio. Danzig: Hünefeld, 1649. Engraved additional title (incorporating portraits of Alhazen and Galileo, 111 engraved plates (including 3 double-page, one with volvelle at p.364 and 20 plates printed back-to-back with 40 engravings) and 26 engravings in text. Folio, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints and corners worn; lacks portrait frontispiece of Hevelius, some dampstaining (heaviest on titles and preliminaries), first gathering loose, some minor marginal soiling, a few leaves with minor marginal worming. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE LUNAR ATLAS, with half-title. Hevelius's complete and detailed observations of the surface and phases of the moon, taken over a four-year period, were recorded in this, his first great work, along with an account of his instruments and telescopes. Honeyman IV, 1672; Rocco/Cinti 120.

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HEVELIUS, JOHANNES. Selenographia; sive, Lunae descriptio. Danzig: Hünefeld, 1649. Engraved additional title (incorporating portraits of Alhazen and Galileo, 111 engraved plates (including 3 double-page, one with volvelle at p.364 and 20 plates printed back-to-back with 40 engravings) and 26 engravings in text. Folio, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints and corners worn; lacks portrait frontispiece of Hevelius, some dampstaining (heaviest on titles and preliminaries), first gathering loose, some minor marginal soiling, a few leaves with minor marginal worming. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE LUNAR ATLAS, with half-title. Hevelius's complete and detailed observations of the surface and phases of the moon, taken over a four-year period, were recorded in this, his first great work, along with an account of his instruments and telescopes. Honeyman IV, 1672; Rocco/Cinti 120.

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