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ARGOLI, ANDREA.
Ephemerides exactissimae caelestium motuum ad
longitudinem Almae Urbis, et Tychonis Brahe hypotheses, ac deductae e caelo
accurate observationes ab anno MDCXLI ad annum MDCC, praeter stellarum
fixarum catalogum extat tabula ortus et occasus.
Woodcut text diagrams. [20], 587,
[3]; [2], 915, [ 1]; [2], 903, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author
and additional title in Volume 1. 3 volumes. 4to, 222x165 mm, contemporary calf gilt,
some wear, Volume 3 front joint cracked at bottom, cover corners worn through; first vol-
ume lacking rear free endpaper, second volume lacking front free endpaper, with clean tear
across 3e3, light dampstaining in lower outer corners at end of third volume.
Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan & Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1659
[400/600]
Second edition of a collection of tables for the making of horoscopes originally published in
1648. BEA, page 59; DSB I, 244-45; Houzeau & Lancaster 15174; Riccardi I, 50;
Thorndike VII, 122.
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ARGOLI, ANDREA.
Tabulae
primi mobilis.
[6], 95, [1], 757, [1]; 995,
[1] pages, including engraved title. 3 parts
in 2 volumes. 4to, 225x162 mm, contem-
porary vellum boards, spine ends worn,
turn-ins spring; dark marginal stain on
opening leaves in both volumes, varying
dampstaining and foxing elsewhere, mar-
ginal worming toward end of first volume
not impairing legibility.
Padua: heirs of Paolo Frambotto, 1667
[300/500]
Third edition of tables of the Primum Mobile,
or outermost celestial sphere in Ptolemaic
model, for determining astrological directions,
originally published in 1610. Houzeau &
Lancaster 12749; Riccardi I, 49.
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