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Nicolas Copernicus among other astronomers of the world. Process print after a wood engraving by J. Styfi and J. Holewinski, 18--, after M.E. Andirolli, 1873.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Joannes Hevelius [Hewelke]. Mezzotint by J. Faber after A. Stech, 1677.

Joannes Hevelius [Hewelke], his funerary monument. Line engraving.

Joannes Hevelius [Hewelke]. Line engraving by L. Visscher after A. Stech.

Joannes Hevelius [Hewelke]. Line engraving by J. Baker after A. Stech, 1677.

Animadversions on the first part of the Machina coelestis of ... Johannes Hevelius ... together with an explication of some instruments made by Robert Hooke / [Robert Hooke].

[Johannes Hevelius correspondence].

The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory : reprinted from an original copy / with remarks by C. Leeson Prince.

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[Johannes Hevelius correspondence].

The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory : reprinted from an original copy / with remarks by C. Leeson Prince.