199
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WEIDLER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH.
Historia astronomiae; sive, De ortu et
progressu astronomiae liber singularis.
[24], 624, [40] pages. 4to, 206x167 mm, con-
temporary vellum boards; contents toned with scattered foxing, inscription imperfectly
washed out of title with residual stains.
Wittemberg: (Ephraim Gottlob Eichsfeld for)
Gottlieb Heinrich Schwartz, 1741
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
of the first comprehensive history of astronomy. Houzeau & Lancaster 11.
200
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WELLS, EDWARD.
The Young Gentleman’s Astronomy, Chronology, and
Dialling . . . Third Edition Revised and Corrected with Additions.
25 folding
engraved plates; 1 full-page engraved illustration. [8], 148; [8], 86; [8], 43 [i. e., 53], [1]
pages. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, 199x130 mm, modern panelled calf in period style;
mostly marginal foxing on plates, faint toning along top edges of text, top edge of
Astronomy plate 9 darkened and ragged.
London: James and John Knapton, 1725
[250/350]
Third edition of a work originally published in 1712. Babson 396 (1718 edition).
201
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WHISTON, WILLAM.
Praelectiones astronomicae Cantabrigiae . . . quibus
accedunt tabulae plurimae astronomicae Flamstedianae & correctae, Halleianae,
Cassinianae, et Streetianae.
[2], 459, [1] pages. 8vo, 188x114 mm, 19th-century calf gilt,
front joint restored, leather lettering piece chipped; title and endleaves heavily foxed, con-
tents otherwise generally clean. Bookplate of the astronomer Sir James South, F.R.S.
(1785-1867).
London: Benj. Tooke, 1707
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
of Whiston’s lectures on astronomy at Cambridge, where he succeeded Newton
as Lucasian Professor. BEA, pages 1212-13; Babson 126; Houzeau & Lancaster 9242;
Wallis 166.
202
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WHISTON, WILLIAM.
A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original, to
the Consummation of All Things . . . Third Edition.
6 engraved plates. [4], 95, [1];
460 pages. 8vo, 200x122 mm, modern cloth; some soiling and mostly marginal foxing, later
owner’s inscription and pen-and-ink caricature on verso of plate 4. Bookplate of the
American Museum of Natural History (released).
London: Benj. and Sam. Tooke, 1722
[200/300]
First published in 1696, “the first full-length popularization of Newtonianism” (ODNB).
Babson 231 (original edition); DSB XIV, 296; Wallis 344.904 (this edition).
