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BARROW, ISAAC.
Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation,
Nature and Properties of Curve Lines.
English translation by Edmund Stone. 11 fold-
ing engraved plates. [4], vi, 309, [3] pages, including engraved additional title. 8vo, 198x124
mm, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked; plates foxed, text crisp and clean, (blank?) lower
outer corner torn off last plate. Bookplate of Albert Edgar Lownes.
London: Stephen Austen, 1735
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
of the geometrical portion of Barrow’s 1669-70 Lectiones, his
Cambridge lectures on optics and geometry, edited by Sir Isaac Newton, his pupil and successor
there as Lucasian professor of mathematics. Babson 250; Wallis 358.6.
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BARTSCH, JACOB.
Planispherium stellatum, seu vice-globus coelestis in
plano delineatus.
Edited by Andreas Goldmayer. 6 engraved plates; 3 folding celestial
maps. [44], 3-152, [170] pages, including engraved additional title and final leaf of binder’s
instructions. 4to, 200x157 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink; marginal
dampstaining through most of volume, some browning or foxing.
Nuremberg: Christoph Gerhard for Paul Fürst, 1661
[2,000/3,000]
Second edition of a 1624 introduction to astronomy, substantially enlarged with solar and
planetary ephemerides, a catalogue of 1240 fixed stars, and related matter. The author was a
son-in-law of Johannes Kepler. Warner, The Sky Explored, pages 16-17.
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