Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LANSBERGEN, PHILIPPUS VAN. Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae. 79, [1]; 180; 182, [1] pages, including engraved title, portrait of the author, and final colophon leaf, with half-title supplied in well-executed facsimile on laid paper. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 290x180 mm, old leather, rebacked retaining most of original(?) backstrip; occasional toning, varying browning or foxing, upper portion of colophon leaf torn and restored with slight loss to printer's device. Middelburg: (Guilielmus Christianus for) Zacharias Romanus, 1632

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first edition of astronomical tables based on circular planetary motion instead of Kepler's elliptical model. Lansbergen was an early adherent of Copernican heliocentrism. BEA, pages 677-678; DSB VIII, 27-28; Houzeau & Lancaster 12758.