Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 ASTA.—Syxes (Miss ELLA, and Bric.-GEN. SIR PERCY) THROUGH DESERTS and OASES of CENTRAL ASIA, 2 maps and 46 tllustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1920 ($2.40) 12/- ASTROLOGY.—LILLY (WILLIAM, Student in Astrology).—MR. WILLIAM LILLyY’s History of his LIFE and Times, from the year 1602, to 1681, written by himself,.. . to his worthy Friend EL1As ASHMOLE, .. . SECOND EDITION, sm. 8vo., calf, neatly rebacked, 1715 ($8.40) £2/2/- —w—: [SMITH (ROBERT C.)] THE ASTROLOGER of the NINETEENTH CENTURY: or THE MastTER KeEy of FUTURITY, and GUIDE to ANCIENT MYSTERIES, being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy, SEVENTH EDITION, .. . by MERLINUS ANGLICUS, JUNIOR, vignette title and 4 plates in colour and 90 illustrative woodcut engravings of horoscopes, hieroglyphics, and talismans, 8vo., neatly bound in “‘ old style ” sheep, 1825 ($7) £1/15/- ASTRONOMY. CLAVIUS (CnrIsTopH.) IN SPHRARAM JOANNIS DE SACRO BoscO COMMENTARIUS, nunc quinto ab ipso Auetore hoc anno 1606, woodcut on title, and numerous other woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to., vellum, Rome, sumptibus Fo. Pauli Gellit, 1607 ($5) £1/5/- FIN/EUS (OrontTIus) DE SPHRRA MUNDI, sive Cosmographia, lib. V. ... Rectarum in circuli quadrante substensarum (quos sinus vocant) demonstatio . . . Organum Uni- versale, ex supradicta sinuum ratione contextum, quo tu Geometrici, ti omnes astro- nomici canones ... , engraved title, numerous woodcut engravings and diagrams, folio, old half vellum, Parisiis, ex officina Simonis Colinaet, 1542 ($34) £8/10/- Few wormholes, stained throughout, but a tall copy of the First Edition, with early MS. note of ownership, and marginal annotations. GALILEI (GALILEO) SySTEMA COSsMICUM, in quo Quatuor Dialogis de duobus maximis Mundi Systematibus, PTOLEMAICO et COPERNICANO, utriusque rationibus Philosophicis ac Naturalibus indefinite propositis, disseritur. Ex Italica Lingua Latine conversum [a MATTHIA BERNEGGERO], EDITIO Nova, cum Appendice gemina, qua SS. Scripture dicta. cum Terre mobilitate conciliantur [et Indice], engraved title and diagrams, sm. 8vo., old calf, Londini, 1663 ($9) £2/5/= The first edition printed in England, unknown to Lowndes and rare. The engraved title containing emblematic representations of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus is headed : ‘‘ Dialogus de Systemate Mundi.” GASSENDI (PEtr1) INSTITUTIO ASTRONOMICA : juxta Hypotheses tam Veterum quam Recentiorum ; qui accesserunt GALILEI (GALILEL) NUNTIUS SIDEREUS ; et KEPLER (JO- HANNIS) DIOPTRICE, SECUNDA EDITIO, numerous diagrams, 8vo., contemp. calf, Londin, Typis Facobi Flesher, 1653 ($3.60) 18/- TERTIA EDITIO, numerous diagrams, 8vo., contemp. calf (loose and worn), Londinz, Impensis Hen. Dickinson, 1683 ($2.40) 12/- MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN) ORGANUM URANICUM, numerous fine and large woodcuts, folio, unbound, Basilee apud Henricum. Petrum, 1536 ($8) £2/=/= Incomplete copy ; wanting 3 leaves, and the volvelles to the woodcuts. PURBACHIUS (GeorGiI) THEORICR Nov&® PLANETARUM. Quibus accesserunt: JOANNIS DE MONTE REGIO DISPUTATIONES, super deliramenta Theoricarum GERARDI Cremonensis, Item, JOANNIS EssLER MAGUNTINI .. . SPECULUM ASTROLOGORUM ... Questiones verO in Theoricas Planetarum Purbachii, authore CHRISTIANO VURSTISIO, numerous woodcut diagrams, sm. 8vo., vellum, Basilee, ex officina Henric. Este fs : ($5) £1/5/- This copy does not contain Vurstisio’s Questiones, mentioned on title. ANOTHER EDITION, with VURSTISIO’S QUASTIONES, numerous woodcut diagrams, 2 vols in 1, thick sm. 8vo., old vellum, Basilee, per Sebastianum Henricipetri, 1596 ($6) £1/10/- Loose in binding, and several pages badly stained by ink. LE NUOVE TEORICHE de i PIANETI, ridotte ad ogni termine di verita, & illustrate di dotte figure da PrETRO APIANO, hora in questa lingua tradotte da OraTio Tos- CANELLA, numerous woodcut diagrams, sm. 8vo., half vellum, Venetia, appresso Giovan. Battista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1566 ($6) £1/10/- The first edition of this Italian translation. SELLER (JOHN) ATLAS CALESTIS, containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets and Constellations of the Starrs, and other Phenomina’s of the Heavens, title and 55 double-page engraved plates and tables, 12mo., old calf, rebacked, [1679] ($9) £2/5/- Title cut round to plate line, and 1 plate missing.
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