Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

211 c CASSINI DE THURY, CÉSAR-FRANÇOIS. Le Méridienne de l’Observatoire Royal deParis,vérifiée dans toute l’Étendue duRoyaume par deNouvellesObservations. 9 folding engraved plates;5 folding engravedmaps.[10],292,ccxxxv,[17] pages,including half-ti- tle. 4to, 249x186 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, few surface imperfections on covers; contents clean;rededges.Fromthe libraryof FrankS.Streeter (sale,Christie’s,17April 2007,lot 95). Paris: Hippolyte-Louis & Jacques Guérin, 1744 [400/600] first edition of an important work in the controversy between Cartesian and Newtonian adherents over the shape of the earth. On the basis of 1739-40 measurements of the meridian of Paris, Cassini de Thury abandoned the Cartesian view of his father Jacques in favor of the Newtonian conception of the earth as an oblate spheroid. DSB III, 108; Norman 413. 212 c CHAVES, JERÓNIMO DE. Chronographia o Reportorio de los Tiempos. Woodcut illustrations in text comprising 3 hemispheric maps, including one of the Americas, allegorical representations of the planets, zodiac signs, seasonal labors, phases of solar and lunar eclipses, full-page depiction of Anatomical Man, and Spanish royal arms at end. 3-6, 9-271 [i. e., 270] leaves; lacks the title (replaced with facsimile), next leaf, and third and fourth leaves of the table of contents. 4to, 202x148 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, spine quite worn and reinforced with strips of vellum, rear joint partly cracked; contents browned with marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, opening leaves dog-eared, clean tear through text and illustration on M8, some text inked out or emended in accordance with the 1707 Expurgatorio, as noted in inscription on last page. Branded ownership mark of the Convento de las Llagas de San Francisco de Puebla (CCMF/BF-12051) on top and bottom edges. Seville: Fernando Díaz for Francisco Estevan, 1588 [500/1,000] Third edition of a work first published in 1548 on chronology, cosmography, the liturgical calendar, and medical astrology. Alden 588/17; Palau 67457. SCIENCE, continued 213 213 c CLAVIUS, CHRISTOPHORUS, S. J. Fabrica et usus instrumenti ad horologiorum descriptionem peropportuni. Woodcut Jesuit device on title; 4 full-page woodcuts of sundials; numerous diagrams in text. 4, [4], 5-151, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 211x160 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, small hole in spine; conspicuous stains on leaves in gatherings I and P, scattered foxing. Branded ownership mark of the Colegio de San Pedro Pascual de Religiosos Mercedarios de México (CCMF/BEFK-7006) on top edges. Rome: Bartolomeo Grassi for Giacomo Ruffinelli, 1586 [1,000/1,500] first edition of a treatise on sundial construction and timekeeping; issue with Grassi imprint. Houzeau & Lancaster 11385.

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDkyODA=