Compilation of Brahe prints.

Large folio: 2 sm. text parts and 14 engr., contemp. hand-coloured and heightened with gold (browned, missing: armillary sphere on wooden base [P-Brahe#7:2]).

Mod. binding, blind-ruled, spine with 6 bands.

Series of 13 (of 14) prints by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) from J. Blaeu's "Atlas maior", enriched with a map of the island Ven, off the coast near Copenhagen, where Brahe's two observatories Uraniborg and Stelleborg were located. Blaeu’s father had studied on Ven with Tycho in 1594-1596, and drew the map of Ven. The other engr. were copied after the woodcuts originally published in Brahe’s "Astronomiae Instauratiae Mechanicae" (1598). The section includes: 1. Effigies Tychonis Brahe [P-Brahe#8:2]. - Text part: "Introductio ad geographiam" (c-d, f1) with 7 in-text ill. - 2. Ven [1515:2]. - 3. Arcis Uraniburgi V [P-Brahe#1:2]. - 4. Orthographia praecipuae [P-Brahe#2:2]. - 5. Ichnographia [P-Brahe#3:2]. - 6. Sextans astronomicus [P-Brahe#4:2]. - 7. Armiliae aequatoriae [P-Brahe#5:2]. - 8. Instrumentum Parallaticum [P-Brahe#6:2]. - Text part: "De instrumento parallatico" (2B, 2D). - 9. Stellaburg [P-Brahe#9:2]. - 10. Plan Stellaburg [P-Brahe#10:2]. - 11. Armillae aequatoriae [P-Brahe#11:2]. - 12. Sextans astronomicus [P-Brahe#12:2]. - 13. Quadrans magnus [P-Brahe#13:2]. - 14. Quadrans volubilis [P-Brahe#14:2].
Ref. van der Krogt 2:601.1-3.