Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 438
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ARGOLI, ANDREA. Ephemerides exactissimae caelestium motuum ad longitudinem Almae Urbis, et Tychonis Brahe hypotheses, ac deductae e caelo accurate observationes ab anno MDCXLI ad annum MDCC, praeter stellarum fixarum catalogum extat tabula ortus et occasus. Woodcut text diagrams. [20], 587, [3]; [2], 915, [ 1]; [2], 903, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and additional title in Volume 1. 3 volumes. 4to, 222x165 mm, contemporary calf gilt, some wear, Volume 3 front joint cracked at bottom, cover corners worn through; first volume lacking rear free endpaper, second volume lacking front free endpaper, with clean tear across 3e3, light dampstaining in lower outer corners at end of third volume. Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan & Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1659

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Second edition of a collection of tables for the making of horoscopes originally published in 1648. BEA, page 59; DSB I, 244-45; Houzeau & Lancaster 15174; Riccardi I, 50; Thorndike VII, 122.