Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LESCHENER, HENRY DE. Traitté de Comettes. [8], 52 pages. 4to, 218x172 mm, old side-stitched marbled wrappers, backstrip defective; moderate foxing, mostly marginal. Paris: Denys Thierry, 1665
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scarce first edition of a tract on the nature of comets and their significance as portents, with a discussion of the comet of 1664. Not in Houzeau & Lancaster; no copy recorded in ABPC, JAP, or RBH.