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Duret, Noël (1590-1650) Novae Motuum Caelestium Ephemerides Richelianae.
London: Veneunt apud Johannem Benson, 1647.
First edition printed in England, thick quarto, illustrated with text woodcuts and engravings, 3 small engraved diagrams tacked in place, and one folding engraving; ex libris Thomas Oswald, with his 17th century signature to title page; with an inserted sheet likely from the same hand noting the lunar positions for 1649 in the Julian calendar; bound in full contemporary sprinkled English calf ruled in blind, with inscribed parchment manuscript waste slips guarding endleaves (fraying with loss and endcaps, minor splitting to each joint); 9 x 7 in.
Houzeau & Lancaster 15149; Wing D-2695A; ESTC R231784 (Showing only one copy, at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.)
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
