KEPLER JOHANNES Opera omnia 8 vols 1858 71

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KEPLER, JOHANNES. Opera omnia. Edited by Christian Frisch. 6 (of 7?) plates; 2 folding manuscript facsimiles; 2 tables. Half-titles. Errata leaf in Volumes 2, 6, and 7. 8 volumes. 8vo, 250x157 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 calf, joints worn, label removed from spines; contents generally clean. Bookplates of Robert Wheeler Wilson, his monogram on spines; Harvard College Library release stamp on verso of titles. Frankfurt am Main & Erlangen: Heider & Zimmer, 1858-71

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first collected edition, limited to 800 sets; "includes all the major printed works and also extensive excerpts from Kepler's correspondence, copious editorial notes, a 361-page Latin vita, and an index as yet unsurpassed. It contains the initial publication of . . . the 'Apologia Tychonis contra Nicolaum Ursum,' 'Hipparchus,' and other MSS"--DSB VII, 308. Caspar 129 (calling for portrait of Kepler in Volume 8, not present here).