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BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601). Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata. Edited by Johann Kepler. Frankfurt: Godfrey Tampachius, 1610.
4° (232 x 161mm). Collation: )(4 (:)4 B-O4 P-Q8 R10 S-Ii4 Kk-Ll8 Mm-Mmmmm4. Title printed in red and black, title device, numerous woodcuts of astronomical instruments, text diagrams and astronomical tables. (Variable browning and spotting, severe to 2K1-2, 7-8, 4K4, 4M4, 4P3-4, 4S1-2, 4Y4, spot to 4L1 erasing several letters, short marginal tear to Nn1 just into text.) Late 18th-/early 19th-century half calf (catches missing).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (?). The Progymnasmata describes Brahe's observations on the supernova in Cassiopeia of 1572-74 and his revisions of the theories of solar and lunar movement and a catalogue of the positions of 777 fixed stars. An edition of the work was begun at Hven but never issued and was only published posthumously, edited by Johann Kepler, at Prague in 1602. The present edition largely consists of sheets printed for the Prague edition, the first quire and first text leaf reset, and the errata corrected up to p.786. Houzeau & Lancaster 2700.
4° (232 x 161mm). Collation: )(4 (:)4 B-O4 P-Q8 R10 S-Ii4 Kk-Ll8 Mm-Mmmmm4. Title printed in red and black, title device, numerous woodcuts of astronomical instruments, text diagrams and astronomical tables. (Variable browning and spotting, severe to 2K1-2, 7-8, 4K4, 4M4, 4P3-4, 4S1-2, 4Y4, spot to 4L1 erasing several letters, short marginal tear to Nn1 just into text.) Late 18th-/early 19th-century half calf (catches missing).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (?). The Progymnasmata describes Brahe's observations on the supernova in Cassiopeia of 1572-74 and his revisions of the theories of solar and lunar movement and a catalogue of the positions of 777 fixed stars. An edition of the work was begun at Hven but never issued and was only published posthumously, edited by Johann Kepler, at Prague in 1602. The present edition largely consists of sheets printed for the Prague edition, the first quire and first text leaf reset, and the errata corrected up to p.786. Houzeau & Lancaster 2700.
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