Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO. Tabulae novae juxta Tychonis rationes elaboratae. [8], 84, 675 [i. e., 677], [2] pages, including engraved title by Giovanni Luigi Valesio, and errata leaf at end. 4to, 232x168 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink; wormhole in lower inner corner of front endpapers, few minor marginal dampstains at beginning and end, contents otherwise clean. Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi for Girolamo Tamburini, 1619

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first edition of tables left unfinished at Magini's death and published posthumously, based on his modified Tychonic system with elements adopted from Kepler. Houzeau & Lancaster 12752; Riccardi II, 70.