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Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Historia Coelestis.
Augsburg: Simon Utzschneider, 1666.
First edition, folio, xylographic title page rendering title in intertwining calligraphic-style script, repeated as a divisional title for the second part; illustrated with a double-page plate featuring four royal personages looking down upon a terrestrial and celestial globe; engraved portrait of Tycho by Philip Kilian; and numerous woodcut text illustrations; lacking the folding plate of Uraniborg; bound in full contemporary alum-tawed pigskin ruled in blind and decorated with rolled and individual tools; lacking clasps (spine once painted white, remnants of varnish on boards adjacent to joints); 17th century Jesuit inscription to first title; 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
