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KEPLER, JOHANNES. De stella nova. > Folding engraved plate. [12], 212, 35, [5] pages, the last leaf blank * De cometis. > 2 folding woodcut
KEPLER, JOHANNES. De stella nova. Folding engraved plate. [12], 212, 35, [5] pages, the last leaf blank * De cometis. 2 folding woodcut diagrams; 3 folding tables. [8], 138 pages; lacks final blank. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary vellum; contents toned, lower corner of )?(2 in first work torn and restored with a few letters replaced in ink, repaired wormholes in blank outer margins in second work, blank lower margin of T3 restored. Prague: Ex Officina calcographica Pauli Sessii, 1606; Augsburg: Andreas Apergerus for Sebastian Mylius, 1619[-20]
- Notes: first edition of Kepler's astronomical and astrological observations on the nova of 1604, which followed the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 1603, bound with the first collected edition of his principal writings on comets; title-page issue of the first work. Caspar 27, 60; Honeyman sale 1782, 1798; DSB V, 297 and 302; first work overlooked by Alden despite references to New World discovery and trade on page 186, and to the conversion of the native inhabitants to Christianity on page 204.
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