$7,200
Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Tychonis Brahe Dani Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnastica . Frankfurt: Tampachium, 1610. Second edition, two quarto volumes, with the engraved portrait bound halfway through volume two, at the beginning of the letters; illustrated with woodcuts, diagrams and tables throughout, collated, complete; occasional browning and spotting; ex libris the Jesuit College in Paris, with their seventeenth century bookplate and inscription on the title page in both volumes, bound in contemporary speckled calf with gilt arms of the Jesuit College and the Signet Society, with withdrawn stamps in both volumes; spines dry, leather at joints cracking. Brahe's accurate astronomical observations, facilitated by his capable assistant, Johannes Kepler, enabled him to describe the laws of planetary motion.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
