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Rare illustrated edition with 2 folding plates of figures and 7 folding maps of this educational work dedicated to the general study of the known world at the end of the 18th century, through two large complementary disciplines, astronomy and geography -

Cosmography, as it was

Geography, Astronomy, Cartography, Illustrated, Science, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

Edme Mentelle & M. Le Duc D'Angoulême - Cosmographie élémentaire divisée en parties astronomique et géographique - 1781

Rare edition of this important treatise on trigonometry based on the calculation tables of the Dutch scientist Adriaan Vlacq (often francised or abbreviated as Wlac), corrected and augmented by Jacques Ozanam. It represents a cornerstone for the study of navigation, astronomy,

Mathematics, Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Ships and seafaring - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Vlacq / Ozanam - La Trigonometrie Rectiligne et Spherique - 1720

Title:

Arthur Dürst / Battista Agnese - Portolan - Atlas by Battista Agnese from 1546 from the Russian National Library Saint Petersburg.
Collation:

Folio (38 cm x 26 cm), facsimile with 20 unnumbered leaves.

Without the commentary booklet, which comprises 32 pages.
Binding:


Fine Bindings, History, Astrology, Astronomy, Europe, Geography, Cartography, Royalty, Travels, Topography, Outer space, Science - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Arthur Dürst / Battista Agnese - Portolan-Atlas / Seeatlas von 1546 - limited Edition - Ex. aus der Russischen Nationalbibliothek - 1993

Camille Flammarion – Popular Astronomy: General Description of the Sky.
Work with dedication printed to François Arago and to the immortal geniuses Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.

Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, Publishers (Galeries de l'Odéon, 1 to 7, and Rue

Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Camille Flammarion - Astronomie Populaire - Description Générale du Ciel - 1880

Rare illustrated edition with a loose frontispiece and 2 plates, one of which is loose, with numerous tables. Under the direction of Jacques Lieutaud, who was responsible for the Connaissance des temps from 1702 to 1729, the work sits in an important period of development of

Astronomy, Science, History, Illustrated, Geography, Cartography - Quantity: 1 - Book

SN - La Connoissance des Temps pour l'année 1725 - 1725

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1476: THE ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR OF REGIOMONTANUS AT

Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

Regiomontanus - Calendarium - 1476-2000

1552 RARE EDITION ON SACROBOSCO'S SPHERE OF THE WORLD, ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, ASTROLOGY, MATHEMATICS, NAVIGATION, COSMOGRAPHY, HYDROGRAPHY, WEATHER, SOLID GEOMETRY by Oronce Finè (1494–1555) a mathematician, cartographer and university professor in Paris. In this edition he takes

Archaeology, Art, Art history, Astronomy, Astrology, Cartography, Education, Esotericism, Europe, Geography, History, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Literature, Mathematics, Memorabilia, Nature, Outer space, Physics, Science, Technology, Ships and seafaring, Topography, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

Oronce Fine AFTER Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) - De Sphaera Mundi (The Sphere of the World); Astronomy, Astrology, Mathematics, Geography, Navigation - 1552

Magnificent Facsimile Edition.
Harmonia Macrocosmica, seu atlas universalis et novus (A. Cellarius Celestial Atlas)

The Harmonia Macrocosmica atlas by Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665) is one of the most magnificently coloured astronomical works of the Baroque period.
The

Cartography, Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Andreas Cellarius - HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA - 1660-1660

Sir Robert Ball – The Story of the Sun – 1897.
An exceptional and beautifully illustrated late 19th-century popular astronomy work by the celebrated Irish astronomer Sir Robert Stawell Ball. Published by Cassell and Company in 1897.

Sir Robert Ball, who served as the Royal

Astronomy, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Sir Robert Ball - The Story of the Sun - 1897

Descartes wrote this treatise in 1632 and 1633. A 290-page volume, octavo size, measuring 17 cm by 12 cm. In it, he defended in particular Copernicus's heliocentric system, but after Galileo's condemnation, he decided not to publish this work during his lifetime. Finally,

Rene Descartes - Le Monde de Mr. Descartes ou le Traité de la Lumiere - 1664

The volume, bound together, includes two of Jules Verne’s most famous novels, with magnificent illustrations:

1) Jules Verne, De la Terre à la Lune. Direct journey in 97 hours 20 minutes. 41 drawings and a map by De Montaut, Paris, J. Hetzel, [1883].

PP.: (VIII), 172. COMPLETE.

Literature, Travels, Astronomy, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Verne - De la Terre a la Lune / Autour de la Lune - 1883

Adriaan Metius [Adriano Adriani Metio]

Astronomiae brevis, dilucida & facilis Institutio, cujus praecepta & praxis per Sphaeram, cum Solidam ac Planam, tum Triangulorum Doctrinam [...] declarantur; & Exemplis Geometricarum Figurarum, Tabulisque Astronomicis exercentur. Opus

Astronomy, Mathematics, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Adriaan Adriaansz Metius - Astronomiae brevis, dilucida & facilis institutio - 1626

La Cetra Gio. Battista. Viaggio pel Sistema Planetario. Palermo, per le Stampe del Solli, 1793. Prima Edizione. Introvabile edizione originale del famoso poemetto umoristico e satirico in dialetto siciliano del noto abate siciliano che descrive un viaggio allegorico attraverso i

La Cetra Gio. Battista. - Viaggio pel Sistema Planetario. Prima Edizione. - 1793

Made or approved by the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. Volume XVIII. Analytical table of the subjects of the Art of exploiting the coal mines of Terre Charbon. Supplement to the notice of the operations attempted in Normandy & in Burgundy. New Method for

Technology, Illustrated, Mathematics, Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Book

J. E. Bertrand - Descriptions des arts et métiers. Tome XVIII. - 1781-1781

De Signis et Imaginibus Celi di Michele Scoto - cod. Pal. germ. 832.
Biblioteca Universitaria di Heidelberg, Germania.
Esemplare numero: 880.
Il manoscritto si distingue come una gemma dell’astrologia medievale. 
Prodotto a Ratisbona, quest’opera raccoglie il sapere celeste

Astrology, Astronomy, Science, Religion, Fine Bindings, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Michele Scoto - Imago Editore: De Signis et Imaginibus Celi (anno 1450), edizione facsimile - 2020

A complete first-year run of the rare and pioneering Greek scientific periodical Το Σύμπαν (The Universe), comprising all 49 issues, from the first issue of 13 September 1887 through the final issue of the first year, dated 11 September 1888.

Each issue normally consists of 8

Literature, Philosophy, History, Illustrated, Curio & ephemera, Astronomy, Education, Physics, Chemistry, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Το Σύμπαν/The Universe - Complete First Year in 49 Issues – Rare Illustrated Greek Scientific Magazine - 1887-1888

3 volumes of large-format in-quarto, ornately illustrated with 15 engravings on plates not in the text (see attached photos).
- 11 plates beautifully engraved and coloured.
- 3 maps beautifully engraved and coloured.
- 1 plate beautifully engraved and coloured.

Engravings:
Vol

History, Colonial history, War history, Literature, Biographies and memoirs, Bibliography, Illustrated, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics - Quantity: 3 - Book

Buffon , [ ornés gravures colorées , 3 Vol in quarto ] - La théorie de la terre, Les minéraux, Des animaux, De l'homme, Discours sur la nature des animaux [ - 1839

Author/Editor:
Indagine, Johannes ab.
Title:
Introductiones nes apotelesmaticae in physiognomiam, complexiones hominum, astrologiam naturalem, naturas planetarum.
Size:
8°(16 x 10.5 cm)

Collation / Binding:
with woodcut printer's mark on the title and numerous text woodcuts, 384

Education, History, Illustrated, Astrology, Biology, Astronomy, Science - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Indagine, Johannes ab - Astrologie - Physiognomie - Chiromantie - Wahrsagen / Introductiones apotelesmaticae in - 1663

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N.N. - Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle (...) - Paris, Freres Estienne, 1771 - volume five - (6) + 596 + (3) pp. - original calf leather binding; sides with gold decoration; spine with ribs, richly

Illustrated, Natural History, Physics, Astronomy, Astrology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Parijs, Freres Estiene - Le Spectacle de la Nature, particularités de l'histoire naturelle -scheprad werktuigen - 1771

Francesco Cigalini. Coelum Sydereum. Como, Nicola Caprani, 1655. First Edition. An unobtainable original edition of the exceptional and little-known treatise on astrology and astronomy by the famous humanist, physician and astrologer from Como. The work is divided into two parts:

Astronomy, Astrology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Cigalini Francesco. - Coelum Sydereum. Prima Edizione. - 1655

DESCRIPTION: I present at auction an extraordinary and rare specimen of the celebrated treatise on astronomy, geography and navigation, Cosmographia, originally written by Peter Apianus and masterfully expanded by his distinguished pupil Gemma Frisius. This historic Renaissance

Astronomy, Cartography, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Peter Apian; Gemma Frisius - Cosmographia, siue Descriptio uniuersi Orbis. Petri Apiani et Gemmae Frisij - 1584

PLINE THE ELDER (Gaius Plinius Secundus). Natural History, 37 books. Paris, Plon frères, 1845, 9 volumes bound in 5 volumes octavo, green morocco with period-style grain, boards framed by a double gilt border, central gilt oval medallion on the boards with crowned arms surrounded

Animals, Anthropology, Archaeology, Astrology, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Geography, Geology, History, Art history, Nature, Ornithology, Fine Bindings, Science, Natural History - Quantity: 5 - Book

Pline l'ancien - Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII - 1845

This is the book "Moonfire: The Heroic Journey of Apollo 11" by American writer Norman Mailer, published in a special edition. 

It describes the historic first moon landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. Content: It combines Norman Mailer's literary reportage with hundreds of

Outer space, Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Norman Mailer - Moonfire - 2011

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