Sold for:
$3,480
$3,480
Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) Institutio Astronomica . London: Jacobi Flesher, prostant aupd Gulielmum Morden, 1653. Second edition, one of three London variants, octavo, collated, complete, final blank pasted down inside back board; title page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, separate title pages for Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius , and Kepler's Mathematici Dioptrice , contents clean, in contemporary Cambridge calf, front board detached; contemporary inscription on title dated Cambridge, 1702, and sporadic notes in text.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
