Paris: Expensis Authoris chez la veufue Jean Moreau et chez Louis Perier, 1639.
Small folio, first edition, with many pages of typographical tables of which 4 are folding.
[Bound with] Hans Schultze (1630-1680) Tabulae Astroscopicae Certa quadam Methodo, Proponentes in Specie Sydera Partim Fixa, Partim Erratica, Leipzig: Sumptibus Laurentii Sigismundi corneri, Bibliop. Literis Johannis Georgi, 1682, title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; the two works bound together in half speckled calf with marbled paper boards; the Macclesfield copy, with North Library bookplate and blind-embossed armorial stamp to first title; sold in the 2005 sale, part six: Science P-Z & Addenda; 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
Duret's set of astronomical tables were drawn from Kepler. Cardinal Richelieu was his dedicatee and namesake of the work. Duret was a mathematics professor who published several works of astronomy. All are rare. The only copy of this title in the auction record is this, the Macclesfield copy.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
