Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)
Opera Omnia, sive Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata.

Frankfurt: Ioannis Godofredi Schönvvetteri, 1648.

Second edition, quarto, two parts in one volume, (Ooo4 & ee2 blank & present), divisional title page to second part, large printer's device on both title pages and another astronomically-themed device on last leaf, illustrated with numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, tables and diagrams; expertly resewn, in old parchment boards, (possibly recased, but very neatly so), later label on spine, some page browning, generally good, likely washed, but not excessively pressed, 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.

Graesse I, 518; Poggendorff I, 273; Gingerich, no. 24 (earlier edition); Houzeau & Lancaster 2704.



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.