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BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601). De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis, liber secundus. [Hven: for the author, 1588]-Frankfurt: Godfrey Tampachius, 1610.
4° (228 x 170mm). Title device, allegorical device at end, 2 woodcuts of astronomical instruments and numerous woodcut text diagrams. (First 80pp. washed and with extensive repairs, tiny marginal wormtrack to title and both following leaves of preface with this repaired on )(2, )(3 torn and expertly repaired just affecting a few letters, leaves )(4-**3 with corners repaired, **1 with printing flaw affecting about four words on verso, leaves **4-D3 with repaired marginal wormtrack and tears just into a few letters, tiny marginal worming to gatherings E-H4, the last two-thirds of the textblock stained and browned, tiny marginal worming to gatherings 2N-2Y4 and 2Z4, repaired tear to 3A4 just into text.) Modern quarter pigskin. Provenance: occasional ink marginalia in an early hand.
FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE of Brahe's work on the comet of 1577. The original sheets printed at Brahe's observatory on Hven, Uraniborg, in 1588 were used for the present edition, as they were for the 1603 edition. They passed to Tampach, who re-issued the work in 1610, re-setting the first two and the final quires and omitting the portrait which was printed on the title verso of the previous edition. Dreyer, Brahe p.369; Houzeau and Lancaster 2699.
4° (228 x 170mm). Title device, allegorical device at end, 2 woodcuts of astronomical instruments and numerous woodcut text diagrams. (First 80pp. washed and with extensive repairs, tiny marginal wormtrack to title and both following leaves of preface with this repaired on )(2, )(3 torn and expertly repaired just affecting a few letters, leaves )(4-**3 with corners repaired, **1 with printing flaw affecting about four words on verso, leaves **4-D3 with repaired marginal wormtrack and tears just into a few letters, tiny marginal worming to gatherings E-H4, the last two-thirds of the textblock stained and browned, tiny marginal worming to gatherings 2N-2Y4 and 2Z4, repaired tear to 3A4 just into text.) Modern quarter pigskin. Provenance: occasional ink marginalia in an early hand.
FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE of Brahe's work on the comet of 1577. The original sheets printed at Brahe's observatory on Hven, Uraniborg, in 1588 were used for the present edition, as they were for the 1603 edition. They passed to Tampach, who re-issued the work in 1610, re-setting the first two and the final quires and omitting the portrait which was printed on the title verso of the previous edition. Dreyer, Brahe p.369; Houzeau and Lancaster 2699.
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