GASSENDI, Pierre. Institutio astronomia juxta hypotheses tam veterum quam Copernici & Tychonis, Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson à Waesberg, 1680. Small 4°, title with woodcut device printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, some full-page, initials (title lightly soiled, leaves at beginning strenghthened at inner margin, lower corner of B1-2 and Aa4 repaired with loss of a few words on recto of B2, just affecting text on verso of B2, occasional very light marginal soiling, extensive repairs to endpapers), modern panelled calf; William Young, early inscription on endpaper; a few old annotations on endpapers. Dawson 2647: "one of the best accounts we have of astronomical knowledge in the 17th century".