Rosa Ursina Sive Sol Ex Admirando Facularum Macularum Suarum Phoenomeno Varius Necnon Circa

by Christoph Scheiner

$95,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bracciano: Andreas Phaeus, 1626-1630. / First edition, extremely rare large-paper copy of Scheiner's monograph on the Sun — the first devoted to a single heavenly body and the most lavishly illustrated astronomical work of the early seventeenth century. Where ordinary copies measure 375 × 260 mm and the Macclesfield copy 350 × 230 mm, this copy measures 405 × 260 mm on noticeably thicker paper, with no large-paper copy traced at

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