Live auction - Lot 658
[Astronomy]
Astronomical manuscript.
18th c
Hammer price: €
500
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [44 incl. 5 fold.] ff.
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, spr. edges (joints split, head and tail missing, sl. rubbed).
Composed with 32 ff. showing diagrams of which 5 folding and some with flaps (gnomonics (polar and solar sundials)...), 6 ff. of tables (position of the sun, azimuth of the sun, the sun's transit through the zodiacal signs...), 6 ff. dealing with alchemy (cryptography, pyrotechnics ("serpentes igneos in scena exhibere", "glaciem incendere ignem spuere"), ...).