Rosa Ursina sive Sol ex Admirando Facularum & Macularum suarum Phoenomeno varius…Libris quatuor…

by Christoph Scheiner

$95,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1626. Engraved allegorical frontis., fine engraved port. of the Duke of Bracciano, engraved vignette on title, & very many finely engraved illus. in the text some full-page depicting the author’s observations of sunspots and the telescopes he used. 20 p.l. incl. frontis. , 784 pp., one blank leaf, 36 pp. Large thick folio, cont. stiff vellum over boards a few quires lightly discolored . Bracciano: Privately Printed by A. Phaeus, 1626-30. First

• Binding: Leather

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