Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701
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Sale 2701 - Lot 325

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Longomontanus, Christen Sørensen (1562-1647)
Astronomia Danica Vigiliis & Opera. [Bound with] Astronomiae Danicae Appendix de Asscititiis Coeli Phaenomenis.

Amsterdam: Ex Officina Typographica Guiljelmi I. Caesii, 1622.

First edition, quarto, two parts in one volume, with the appendix; woodcut printer's device to title pages; illustrated with engraved and woodcut text diagrams; Tt3 verso in part two with cancel slip covering an illustration printed in error with the correct image; Vuu1 in second part folded to accommodate a table longer than the other pages, other leaves in this signature trimmed close with some loss; some browning to contents; bound in full contemporary parchment; (endleaves dusty; top blank margin trimmed away from one of the dedicatory leaves, patched with loss to the headline; a few leaves with holes); 9 1/2 x 7 in.

Houzeau & Lancaster 2926.

Danish astronomer Longomontanus, here publishing his major contribution to the science in its first edition, is remembered for developing Tycho Brahe's model empircally, and promoting its adoption in the press. He was Brahe's student and took up the master's work at his demise. This title in a first edition appears at auction occasionally, if erratically, with several appearing for sale in 1950s and 1960s, followed by a long dry spell, and three copies since 2005.

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
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