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Bracciano: apud Andream Phaeum, 1626. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1626-1630. Folio (380 x 265 mm). [40], 124 pp; 125-149 [i.e. 160] leaves; [4], 149-784, [38] pp. Signatures: π4 a-b6 c4 A-E6 F4 G-R6 2a-2s6 2t4 2u-2x6 2y4 3A-4M6 (F4, R6, 4I6 blank). Main text in double columns. Imprimatur dated 1630. Additional engraved title, letterpress title with printer's device by M. Greuter, half-title with dedication and engraved portrait of Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano on verso; numerous engraved text illustrations and diagrams, several full-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata leaf at end. Errors in pagination and foliation. 12 leaves following f.148 are all foliated 149. Contemporary full calf over thick boards, spine with ink lettered paper label, boards ruled in blind, red-dyed edges (binding restored). Very little browning, occasional minor pale dampstaining at outer blank margins, letterpress title soiled, full-page… Read More

Bracciano: Andreas Phaeus, 1630. First edition. EXTREMELY RARE LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY. First edition, extremely rare large and thick paper copy, of the most lavishly illustrated astronomical work published in the first half of the seventeenth century, with many full-page illustrations of Scheiner's observations of the sun and of the optical instruments he had designed for the purpose. "For his masterpiece, Scheiner produced the first monograph on a heavenly body, the Sun. Even today it is still an impressive volume, with scores of engravings of sunspots and the various instruments needed for solar observations" (Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo). "Scheiner's drawings in the Rosa Ursina are of almost modern quality, and there was little improvement in solar imaging until 1905" (Britannica). In this work "Scheiner agreed with Galileo that sunspots are on the Sun's surface or in its atmosphere, that they are often generated and perish there, and that the Sun is therefore not perfect. Scheiner… Read More