Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 488
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ARGOLI, ANDREA. Ephemerides exactissimae caelestium motuum ad longitudinem Almae Urbis, et Tychonis Brahe hypotheses, ac deductae e caelo accurate observationes ab anno MDCXLI ad annum MDCC, praeter stellarum fixarum catalogum extat tabula ortus et occasus. Woodcut text diagrams. [20], 587, [3]; [2], 915, [ 1]; [2], 903, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and additional title in Volume 1 (but with last 2 leaves of Volume 3 bound with Volume 1 preliminaries). 3 volumes. 4to, 208x165 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine titles in ink, worn, Volume 2 front hinge split; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, clean tear in lower margin of several leaves toward end of Volume 1, Volume 2 with horizontal strip excised from blank portion of Volume 1 title and restored with heavy adhesive discoloration, front free endpaper lacking. Signatures of Paolo Antonio Parenzi dated Rome 1710. Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan & Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1659

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Second edition of a collection of tables for the making of horoscopes originally published in 1648. DSB I, 244-45; Houzeau & Lancaster 15174; Riccardi I, 50; Thorndike VII, 122.