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Lot 262
Astronomy.- Wittie (Robert) Ouranoskopia [graece]. Or, a Survey of the Heavens...To which is added the Gout-Raptures, first edition, J. M. for the author, 1681.
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
Astronomy.- Wittie (Robert) Ouranoskopia [graece]. Or, a Survey of the Heavens. A Plain description of the admirable Fabrick and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies, as they are discovered to the Eye by the Telescope...To which is added the Gout-Raptures, first edition, title within double-rule border, lacks final advertisement f. , without prelims a1-2 (dedicatory verses by Brian Fairfax and T. Guidott) as some other copies so possibly an issue point, some light foxing and staining, contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered, covers leather cracking, [Wing W3229], 8vo, J. M. for the author, 1681.
⁂ Includes discussion of the telescopes of Hooke and Gallileo and the probability of other inhabited stars.
Provenance: John Rich (ink name on title and final leaf); L. Cowlishaw (bookplate).
Description
Astronomy.- Wittie (Robert) Ouranoskopia [graece]. Or, a Survey of the Heavens. A Plain description of the admirable Fabrick and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies, as they are discovered to the Eye by the Telescope...To which is added the Gout-Raptures, first edition, title within double-rule border, lacks final advertisement f. , without prelims a1-2 (dedicatory verses by Brian Fairfax and T. Guidott) as some other copies so possibly an issue point, some light foxing and staining, contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered, covers leather cracking, [Wing W3229], 8vo, J. M. for the author, 1681.
⁂ Includes discussion of the telescopes of Hooke and Gallileo and the probability of other inhabited stars.
Provenance: John Rich (ink name on title and final leaf); L. Cowlishaw (bookplate).
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