De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico

by Giovanni Giacomo de Marinoni

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Vienna: Leopold J. Kaliwoda, 1745. First edition, author’s presentation copy, of “one of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed” Kenney, p. 200 , which describes and illustrates the astronomical instruments in the private observatory of Marinoni, mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. Like the private observatories of

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