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FLAMSTEED, John (1646-1719). Historiae Coelestis Britannicae. Edited by James Hodgson. London: H. Meere, 1725.
3 volumes, 2° (395 x 255mm). With errata in vols I and II. 6 (of 8) engraved plates, one full-page illustration, engraved headpieces by du Guernier. (Lacking the two plates from vol. III, first two leaves of vols I and II detached, occasional faint marginal dampstaining, some light scattered spotting, occasional browning.) Contemporary polished calf (worn, boards and some free endpapers detached, lacking lower boards of vols II and III, extremities and spine panels heavily rubbed). Provenance: Frederick Kanmacher (inscriptions presenting the book to the Royal Institution dated 12 April 1800).
FIRST EDITION of Flamsteed’s astronomical observations and star catalogue, in which he calculated with unprecedented accuracy the positions of 3000 stars, having ‘eliminated all uncertainties caused by parallax, refraction, and latitude’ (DSB). Flamsteed, astronomer royal from 1675 to 1719, long refused to publish, despite much urging by Halley, Newton and others. In 1712 Halley, ignoring Flamsteed’s objections, published a portion of the work on his own in an edition of 400 copies; Flamsteed recovered 300 of these in 1715 and burned them, or, as he put it, he ‘made a sacrifice of them to Heavenly Truth’ (quoted in ODNB). RARE: ABPC and RBH record only two copies at auction in the past 40 years, one of these lacking the first volume.
3 volumes, 2° (395 x 255mm). With errata in vols I and II. 6 (of 8) engraved plates, one full-page illustration, engraved headpieces by du Guernier. (Lacking the two plates from vol. III, first two leaves of vols I and II detached, occasional faint marginal dampstaining, some light scattered spotting, occasional browning.) Contemporary polished calf (worn, boards and some free endpapers detached, lacking lower boards of vols II and III, extremities and spine panels heavily rubbed). Provenance: Frederick Kanmacher (inscriptions presenting the book to the Royal Institution dated 12 April 1800).
FIRST EDITION of Flamsteed’s astronomical observations and star catalogue, in which he calculated with unprecedented accuracy the positions of 3000 stars, having ‘eliminated all uncertainties caused by parallax, refraction, and latitude’ (DSB). Flamsteed, astronomer royal from 1675 to 1719, long refused to publish, despite much urging by Halley, Newton and others. In 1712 Halley, ignoring Flamsteed’s objections, published a portion of the work on his own in an edition of 400 copies; Flamsteed recovered 300 of these in 1715 and burned them, or, as he put it, he ‘made a sacrifice of them to Heavenly Truth’ (quoted in ODNB). RARE: ABPC and RBH record only two copies at auction in the past 40 years, one of these lacking the first volume.
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